ANSI-ISO-19115-2003.pdf
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Printed in the United States of America Reference number ISO 19115:2003(E) © ISO 2003 INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO 19115 First edition 2003-05-01 Geographic information Metadata Information géographique Métadonnées Copyright American National Standards Institute Provided by IHS under license with ANSI Licensee=IHS Employees/1111111001, User=O'Connor, Maurice Not for Resale, 04/29/2007 12:50:36 MDTNo reproduction or networking permitted without license from IHS -,-,- ISO 19115:2003(E) PDF disclaimer This PDF file may contain embedded typefaces. In accordance with Adobe's licensing policy, this file may be printed or viewed but shall not be edited unless the typefaces which are embedded are licensed to and installed on the computer performing the editing. In downloading this file, parties accept therein the responsibility of not infringing Adobe's licensing policy. The ISO Central Secretariat accepts no liability in this area. Adobe is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. 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ISO copyright office Case postale 56 CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail copyrightiso.org Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland ii © ISO 2003 All rights reserved Copyright American National Standards Institute Provided by IHS under license with ANSI Licensee=IHS Employees/1111111001, User=O'Connor, Maurice Not for Resale, 04/29/2007 12:50:36 MDTNo reproduction or networking permitted without license from IHS -,-,- ISO 19115:2003(E) © ISO 2003 All rights reserved iii Contents Page Foreword vii Introduction. viii 1 Scope1 2 Conformance .1 2.1 Conformance requirements .1 2.2 Metadata Profiles.1 2.3 Obligation and condition2 3 Normative references2 4 Terms and definitions.3 5 Symbols and abbreviated terms4 5.1 Abbreviations.4 5.2 UML notations4 5.3 UML model relationships5 5.3.1 Associations5 5.3.2 Generalization5 5.3.3 Instantiation/Dependency.5 5.3.4 Roles.5 5.4 UML model stereotypes6 5.5 Package abbreviations7 5.6 UML model/data dictionary relationships.8 6 Requirements.8 6.1 Metadata for geographic data requirement 8 6.2 Metadata application information8 6.3 Metadata packages9 6.3.1 Metadata package and entity relationship9 6.3.2 Package descriptions11 6.4 Metadata datatypes.14 6.4.1 Extent information (EX_Extent) .14 6.4.2 Citation and responsible party information (CI_Citation and CI_ResponsibleParty) 15 6.5 Core metadata for geographic datasets15 6.6 Unified Modelling Language (UML) diagrams16 6.7 Data dictionary.16 6.8 Metadata extensions and profiles17 6.9 Abstract test suite.17 6.10 Comprehensive dataset metadata application profile.17 6.11 Metadata extension methodology .17 6.12 Metadata implementation .17 6.13 Hierarchical levels of metadata17 6.14 Implementation examples 17 6.15 Multilingual support for free text fields.17 Annex A (normative) Metadata schemas18 A.1 Metadata UML models.18 A.2 Metadata package UML diagrams19 A.2.1 Metadata entity set information.19 A.2.2 Identification information .19 A.2.3 Constraint information21 A.2.4 Data quality information .22 A.2.5 Maintenance information25 A.2.6 Spatial representation information26 Copyright American National Standards Institute Provided by IHS under license with ANSI Licensee=IHS Employees/1111111001, User=O'Connor, Maurice Not for Resale, 04/29/2007 12:50:36 MDTNo reproduction or networking permitted without license from IHS -,-,- ISO 19115:2003(E) iv © ISO 2003 All rights reserved A.2.7 Reference system information 27 A.2.8 Content information 28 A.2.9 Portrayal catalogue information 29 A.2.10 Distribution information. 30 A.2.11 Metadata extension information 31 A.2.12 Application schema information. 32 A.3 Metadata data types . 33 A.3.1 Extent information 33 A.3.2 Citation and responsible party information. 34 Annex B (normative) Data dictionary for geographic metadata 35 B.1 Data dictionary overview . 35 B.1.1 Introduction. 35 B.1.2 Name/role name 35 B.1.3 Short name and domain code . 35 B.1.4 Definition . 35 B.1.5 Obligation/Condition 36 B.1.6 Maximum occurrence. 36 B.1.7 Data type 36 B.1.8 Domain. 36 B.2 Metadata package data dictionaries. 38 B.2.1 Metadata entity set information. 38 B.2.2 Identification information (includes data and service identification) 40 B.2.3 Constraint information (includes legal and security) . 46 B.2.4 Data quality information. 48 B.2.5 Maintenance information. 57 B.2.6 Spatial representation information (includes grid and vector representation) 59 B.2.7 Reference system information (includes temporal, coordinate and geographic identifiers). 63 B.2.8 Content information (includes Feature catalogue and Coverage descriptions) 68 B.2.9 Portrayal catalogue information 73 B.2.10 Distribution information. 73 B.2.11 Metadata extension information 78 B.2.12 Application schema information. 80 B.3 Data type information. 81 B.3.1 Extent information 81 B.3.2 Citation and responsible party information. 85 B.4 Externally referenced entities 91 B.4.1 Introduction. 91 B.4.2 Date and DateTime information. 91 B.4.3 Distance, angle, measure, number, record, recordType, scale and UomLength information 91 B.4.4 Feature type, property type, and attribute type information 91 B.4.5 PeriodDuration and temporal primitive information. 91 B.4.6 Point and Object information 92 B.4.7 Set and Sequence information 92 B.4.8 Type name information 92 B.4.9 Vertical datum information 92 B.5 CodeLists and enumerations 92 B.5.1 Introduction. 92 B.5.2 CI_DateTypeCode 92 B.5.3 CI_OnLineFunctionCode . 93 B.5.4 CI_PresentationFormCode . 93 B.5.5 CI_RoleCode . 93 B.5.6 DQ_EvaluationMethodTypeCode . 94 B.5.7 DS_AssociationTypeCode 94 B.5.8 DS_InitiativeTypeCode 94 B.5.9 MD_CellGeometryCode . 95 B.5.10 MD_CharacterSetCode 95 B.5.11 MD_ClassificationCode . 96 B.5.12 MD_CoverageContentTypeCode 96 B.5.13 MD_DatatypeCode . 97 Copyright American National Standards Institute Provided by IHS under license with ANSI Licensee=IHS Employees/1111111001, User=O'Connor, Maurice Not for Resale, 04/29/2007 12:50:36 MDTNo reproduction or networking permitted without license from IHS -,-,- ISO 19115:2003(E) © ISO 2003 All rights reserved v B.5.14 MD_DimensionNameTypeCode 97 B.5.15 MD_GeometricObjectTypeCode .97 B.5.16 MD_ImagingConditionCode 98 B.5.17 MD_KeywordTypeCode .98 B.5.18 MD_MaintenanceFrequencyCode .99 B.5.19 MD_MediumFormatCode .99 B.5.20 MD_MediumNameCode 99 B.5.21 MD_ObligationCode .100 B.5.22 MD_PixelOrientationCode .100 B.5.23 MD_ProgressCode .100 B.5.24 MD_RestrictionCode 101 B.5.25 MD_ScopeCode 101 B.5.26 MD_SpatialRepresentationTypeCode 102 B.5.27 MD_TopicCategoryCode 102 B.5.28 MD_TopologyLevelCode 104 Annex C (normative) Metadata extensions and profiles.105 C.1 Background105 C.2 Types of extensions105 C.3 Creating an extension.105 C.4 Rules for creating an extension.105 C.5 Community profile.106 C.6 Rules for creating a profile.107 Annex D (normative) Abstract test suite108 D.1 Abstract test suite.108 D.2 Metadata test suite108 D.2.1 Test case identifier: Completeness test108 D.2.2 Test case identifier: Maximum occurrence test.108 D.2.3 Test case identifier: Short name test 108 D.2.4 Test case identifier: Data type test109 D.2.5 Test case identifier: Domain test.109 D.2.6 Test case identifier: Schema test 109 D.3 User-defined extension metadata test suite.109 D.3.1 Test case identifier: Exclusiveness test .109 D.3.2 Test case identifier: Definition test110 D.3.3 Test case identifier: Standard metadata test110 D.4 Metadata profiles.110 D.4.1 Test case identifier: Metadata profiles110 Annex E (normative) Comprehensive dataset metadata application profile111 E.1 Comprehensive dataset metadata application schema 111 E.2 Comprehensive dataset metadata profile UML model .112 Annex F (informative) Metadata extension methodology.113 F.1 Metadata extensions methodology .113 F.2 Review of existing metadata elements (Stage 1).113 F.3 Definition of a new metadata section (Stage 2)114 F.4 Definition of a new metadata codelist (Stage 3).114 F.5 Definition of a new metadata codelist element (Stage 4)114 F.6 Definition of a new metadata element (Stage 5).115 F.7 Definition of a new metadata entity (Stage 6).115 F.8 Definition of a more stringent metadata obligation (Stage 7).116 F.9 Definition of more restrictive metadata codelist (Stage 8)116 F.10 Documentation of metadata extensions (Stage 9).117 Annex G (informative) Metadata implementation 119 G.1 Background119 G.1.1 Problem statement119 G.1.2 Scope and objectives119 G.1.3 Granularity of spatial data supported .119 G.2 Metadata hierarchy levels.120 Copyright American National Standards Institute Provided by IHS under license with ANSI Licensee=IHS Employees/1111111001, User=O'Connor, Maurice Not for Resale, 04/29/2007 12:50:36 MDTNo reproduction or networking permitted without license from IHS -,-,- ISO 19115:2003(E) vi © ISO 2003 All rights reserved G.2.1 Dataset series metadata (optional). 120 G.2.2 Dataset metadata 120 G.2.3 Feature type metadata (optional) 121 G.2.4 Feature instance metadata (optional). 121 G.2.5 Attribute type metadata (optional) 121 G.2.6 Attribute instance metadata (optional). 121 Annex H (informative) Hierarchical levels of metadata 122 H.1 Levels of metadata . 122 H.2 Example. 122 Annex I (informative) Implementation examples. 126 I.1 Metadata examples. 126 I.2 Example 1 Exploration Licences for Minerals 126 I.3 Example 2 Example of extended metadata. 129 I.4 Data dictionary for the extended elements 130 I.5 MD_KeywordType (Modified) 136 Annex J (informative) Multilingual support for free text metadata element. 137 J.1 Free text metadata elements . 137 J.2 Data structure for handling multi-languages support in free text metadata elements . 138 J.3 Example of multi-languages free text in a metadata element 139 Bibliography. 140 Copyright American National Standards Institute Provided by IHS under license with ANSI Licensee=IHS Employees/1111111001, User=O'Connor, Maurice Not for Resale, 04/29/2007 12:50:36 MDTNo reproduction or networking permitted without license from IHS -,-,- ISO 19115:2003(E) © ISO 2003 All rights reserved vii Foreword ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies (ISO member bodies). The work of preparing International Standards is normally carried out through ISO technical committees. Each member body interested in a subject for which a technical committee has been established has the right to be represented on that committee. International organizations, governmental and non-governmental, in liaison with ISO, also take part in the work. ISO collaborates closely with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) on all matters of electrotechnical standardization. International Standards are drafted in accordance with the rules given in the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2. The main task of technical committees is to prepare International Standards. Draft International Standards adopted by the technical committees are circulated to the member bodies for voting. Publication as an International Standard requires approval by at least 75 % of the member bodies casting a vote. Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. ISO shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. ISO 19115 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 211, Geographic information/Geomatics. Copyright American National Standards Institute Provided by IHS under license with ANSI Licensee=IHS Employees/1111111001, User=O'Connor, Maurice Not for Resale, 04/29/2007 12:50:36 MDTNo reproduction or networking permitted without license from IHS -,-,- ISO 19115:2003(E) viii © ISO 2003 All rights reserved Introduction A revival in the awareness of the importance of geography and how things relate spatially, combined with the advancement of electronic technology, have caused an expansion in the use of digital geographic information and geographic information systems worldwide. Increasingly, individuals from a wide range of disciplines outside of the geographic sciences and information technologies are capable of producing, enhancing, and modifying digital geographic information. As the number, complexity, and diversity of geographic datasets grow, a method for providing an understanding of all aspects of this data grows in importance. Digital geographic data is an attempt to model and describe the real world for use in computer analysis and graphic display of information. Any description of reality is always an abstraction, always partial, and always just one of many possible “views“. This “view“ or model of the real world is not an exact duplication; some things are approximated, others are simplified, and some things are ignored. There is seldom perfect, complete, and correct data. To ensure that data is not misused, the assumptions and limitations affecting the creation of data must be fully documented. Metadata allows a producer to describe a dataset fully so that users
