Overview

This International Standard defines the schema required for describing geographic information and services by means of metadata. It provides information about the identification, the extent, the quality, the spatial and temporal aspects, the content, the spatial reference, the portrayal, distribution, and other properties of digital geographic data and services. This International Standard is applicable to: - the cataloguing of all types of resources, clearinghouse activities, and the full description of datasets and services; - geographic services, geographic datasets, dataset series, and individual geographic features and feature properties. This International Standard defines: - mandatory and conditional metadata sections, metadata entities, and metadata elements; - the minimum set of metadata required to serve most metadata applications (data discovery, determining data fitness for use, data access, data transfer, and use of digital data and services); - optional metadata elements to allow for a more extensive standard description of resources, if required; - a method for extending metadata to fit specialized needs. Though this part of ISO 19115 is applicable to digital data and services, its principles can be extended to many other types of resources such as maps, charts, and textual documents as well as non-geographic data. Certain conditional metadata elements might not apply to these other forms of data. This document is the result of the revision of ISO 19115:2003 and ISO 19115:2006/Cor 1:2005. This standard is fully dependent from the previous version with a new name and date, however. The UML packages, classes, and elements have different identifiers from the previous version. The previous version will therefore remain in the ISO/TC 211 Harmonized Model Management Group (HMMG) repository. Past metadata instances can continue to reference/use the previous version. Backward compatibility shall be provided using a transformation service. The committee responsible for this standard is NA 005-03-03 AA "Kartographie und Geoinformation (SpA zu CEN/TC 287+ISO/TC 211)" ("Cartography and geographic information (Mirror Committee CEN/TC 287+ISO/TC 211)") at DIN.

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Responsible national committee

NA 005-03-03 AA - Geographic Information (national mirror committee for CEN/TC 287 and ISO/TC 211)  

Responsible european committee

CEN/TC 287 - Geographic Information