Esri's Import Metadata tool appears to merge legacy metadata with imported elements instead of performing complete replace. This means that the Clean tool never really has a chance to work, because it always outputs standalone metadata. So we need either a tool that can fully purge metadata from a dataset, or a tool that performs a clean import, fully purging before importing. Or both?
Esri's Import Metadata tool appears to merge legacy metadata with imported elements instead of performing complete replace. This means that the Clean tool never really has a chance to work, because it always outputs standalone metadata. So we need either a tool that can fully purge metadata from a dataset, or a tool that performs a clean import, fully purging before importing. Or both?