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"ISO is a network of the national standards institutes of 157 countries, on the basis of one member per country, with a Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, that coordinates the system."
ISO is a non-governmental organization: its members are not, as is the case in the United Nations system, delegations of national governments. Nevertheless, ISO occupies a special position between the public and private sectors. This is because, on the one hand, many of its member institutes are part of the governmental structure of their countries, or are mandated by their government. On the other hand, other members have their roots uniquely in the private sector, having been set up by national partnerships of industry associations.
Therefore, ISO is able to act as a bridging organization in which a consensus can be reached on solutions that meet both the requirements of business and the broader needs of society, such as the needs of stakeholder groups like consumers and users."
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ISO 19115:2003 defines the schema required for describing geographic information and services. It provides information about the identification, the extent, the quality, the spatial and temporal schema, spatial reference, and distribution of digital geographic data.
The Paradise Creek datasets use the standard topic code of "inlandWaters" (012) which describes inland water features, drainage systems and characteristics (e.g., rivers, glaciers, lakes, water use plans, dams, currents, floods, water quality, hydrographic charts).
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| core metadata for geographic datasets |
obligation |
uml hierarchy |
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| dataset title |
m |
md_metadata> md_dataidentification.citation> ci_citation.title |
| dataset topic category |
m |
md_metadata> md_dataidentification.topiccategory |
| abstract describing the dataset |
m |
md_metadata> md_dataidentification.abstract |
| dataset reference date |
m |
md_metadata> md_dataidentification.citation> ci_citation.date |
| dataset language |
m |
md_metadata> md_dataidentification.language |
| metadata point of contact |
m |
md_metadata.contact> ci_responsibleparty |
| metadata date stamp |
m |
md_metadata.datestamp |
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| dataset character set |
c |
md_metadata> md_dataidentification.characterset |
| geographic location of the dataset by four coordinates or by geographic identifier |
c |
md_metadata> md_dataidentification.extent> ex_extent> ex_geographicextent> ex_geographicboundingbox or ex_geographicdescription |
| metadata language |
c |
md_metadata.language |
| metadata character set |
c |
md_metadata.characterset |
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| dataset responsible party |
o |
md_metadata> md_dataidentification.pointofcontact> ci_responsibleparty |
| additional extent information for the dataset vertical and temporal |
o |
md_metadata> md_dataidentification.extent> ex_extent> ex_temporalextent or ex_verticalextent |
| spatial resolution of the dataset |
o |
md_metadata> md_dataidentification.spatialresolution> md_resolution.equivalentscale or md_resolution.distance |
| spatial representation type |
o |
md_metadata> md_dataidentification.spatialrepresentationtype |
| reference system |
o |
md_metadata> md_referencesystem |
| lineage |
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md_metadata> dq_dataquality.lineage> li_lineage |
| distribution format |
o |
md_metadata> md_distribution> md_format.name and md_format.version |
| on-line resource |
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md_metadata> md_distribution> md_digitaltransferoption.online> ci_onlineresource |
| metadata file identifier |
o |
md_metadata.fileidentifier |
| metadata standard name |
o |
md_metadata.metadatastandardname |
| metadata standard version |
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md_metadata.metadatastandardversion |
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