Indexing your metadata (Iindex)

Command syntax

CNIDR Iindex, Version X.XX.XX
Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 MCNC/CNIDR

Iindex [-d (X)] // Use (X) as the your_index_name for database files.
 [-m (X)] // Load (X) megabytes of data at a time for indexing
 // (default=1, suggest multiples of 4).
 [-t (X)] // Index as files of document type (X).
 [-o (X)] // Document type specific option.
 (X) (Y) (...) // Index files (X), (Y), etc.

The basic elements you need to execute this command are:

a database or index rootname name to create (e.g. fgdcmeta)
a set of files to index (*.xml)
a document definition file (fgdc.fields)
a document type (fgdc)

Change directory to the "metadata" directory containing the triplicates of your metadata entries, and run the Iindex command as so:

Iindex -d /index_dir/your_index_name -t fgdc -o fieldtype=fgdc.fields *.xml

where

the indexer will create a set of index files with the rootname 'your_index_name' in the "index_dir" directory
the document type is specified as type FGDC (-t fgdc)
certain fields will be specified for indexing as numbers rather than as words, the default (-o fieldtype=fgdc.fields)
all targets in the current directory ending with .xml will be indexed

Note: If you are planning on keeping only the XML form of the metadata online, Isite supports the ability now to declare a filter program that is used to generate the other forms. The mp program can be invoked to convert the XML to HTML, text, and other forms on-the-fly with the addition of the argument below to the Iindex line:

-o filter="\some_dir\mp"

This option will save diskspace and simplify metadata maintenance.

The Iindex command will report each document it processes. Under modern architectures, several entries will be indexed per second.