gatherxml is an RDA utility to scan data files, extract file content metadata, and populate the metadata database, which supports user-facing data services.
It is also a suite of content metadata utilities, which includes:
gatherxml(described above)scm(summarize content metadata) for populating the metadata database (automatically called bygatherxml)iinv(insert inventory) for populating the detailed inventory database (automatically called bygatherxml)dsgen(dataset generator) for generating the dataset description page (automatically called bygatherxml)gsi(generate spatial images) for creating the geospatial-representation images on the detailed metadata pages for observations datasets (automatically called bygatherxml)dcm(delete content metadata) for deleting metadata when data files are removedrcm(rename content metadata) for renaming content metadata when data files are renamed