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Commission Regulation (EC) No 1205/2008Show full title

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1205/2008 of 3 December 2008 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards metadata (Text with EEA relevance)

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. Article 1.Subject matter

  3. Article 2.Definitions

  4. Article 3.Creation and maintenance of metadata

  5. Article 4.Entry into force

  6. Signature

    1. ANNEX

      METADATA IMPLEMENTING RULES

      1. PART A Interpretation

        1. 1. The following definitions shall apply:

        2. 2. References to the validity of spatial data sets shall be...

      2. PART B Metadata elements

        1. 1. IDENTIFICATION

          1. 1.1. Resource title

          2. 1.2. Resource abstract

          3. 1.3. Resource type

          4. 1.4. Resource locator

          5. 1.5. Unique resource identifier

          6. 1.6. Coupled resource

          7. 1.7. Resource language

        2. 2. CLASSIFICATION OF SPATIAL DATA AND SERVICES

          1. 2.1. Topic category

          2. 2.2. Spatial data service type

        3. 3. KEYWORD

          1. 3.1. Keyword value

          2. 3.2. Originating controlled vocabulary

        4. 4. GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION

          1. 4.1. Geographic bounding box

        5. 5. TEMPORAL REFERENCE

          1. 5.1. Temporal extent

          2. 5.2. Date of publication

          3. 5.3. Date of last revision

          4. 5.4. Date of creation

        6. 6. QUALITY AND VALIDITY

          1. 6.1. Lineage

          2. 6.2. Spatial resolution

        7. 7. CONFORMITY

          1. 7.1. Specification

          2. 7.2. Degree

        8. 8. CONSTRAINT RELATED TO ACCESS AND USE

          1. 8.1. Conditions applying to access and use

          2. 8.2. Limitations on public access

        9. 9. ORGANISATIONS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, MANAGEMENT, MAINTENANCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF...

          1. 9.1. Responsible party

          2. 9.2. Responsible party role

        10. 10. METADATA ON METADATA

          1. 10.1. Metadata point of contact

          2. 10.2. Metadata date

          3. 10.3. Metadata language

      3. PART C Instructions on multiplicity and conditions of the metadata elements

      4. PART D Value domains

        1. 1. RESOURCE TYPE

          1. 1.1. Spatial data set series (series)

          2. 1.2. Spatial data set (dataset)

          3. 1.3. Spatial data service (service)

        2. 2. TOPIC CATEGORIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH EN ISO 19115

          1. 2.1. Farming (farming)

          2. 2.2. Biota (biota)

          3. 2.3. Boundaries (boundaries)

          4. 2.4. Climatology / Meteorology / Atmosphere (climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere)

          5. 2.5. Economy (economy)

          6. 2.6. Elevation (elevation)

          7. 2.7. Environment (environment)

          8. 2.8. Geoscientific Information (geoscientificInformation)

          9. 2.9. Health (health)

          10. 2.10. Imagery / Base Maps / Earth Cover (imageryBaseMapsEarthCover)

          11. 2.11. Intelligence / Military (intelligenceMilitary)

          12. 2.12. Inland Waters (inlandWaters)

          13. 2.13. Location (location)

          14. 2.14. Oceans (oceans)

          15. 2.15. Planning / Cadastre (planningCadastre)

          16. 2.16. Society (society)

          17. 2.17. Structure (structure)

          18. 2.18. Transportation (transportation)

          19. 2.19. Utilities / Communication (utilitiesCommunication)

        3. 3. SPATIAL DATA SERVICE TYPE

          1. 3.1. Discovery Service (discovery)

          2. 3.2. View Service (view)

          3. 3.3. Download Service (download)

          4. 3.4. Transformation Service (transformation)

          5. 3.5. Invoke Spatial Data Service (invoke)

          6. 3.6. Other Service (other)

        4. 4. CLASSIFICATION OF SPATIAL DATA SERVICES

          1. 100 Geographic human interaction services (humanInteractionService)

          2. 200 Geographic model/information management service (infoManagementService)

          3. 300 Geographic workflow/task management services (taskManagementService)

          4. 400 Geographic processing services – spatial (spatialProcessingService)

          5. 500 Geographic processing services – thematic (thematicProcessingService)

          6. 600 Geographic processing services – temporal (temporalProcessingService)

          7. 700 Geographic processing services – metadata (metadataProcessingService)

          8. 800 Geographic communication services (comService)

        5. 5. DEGREE OF CONFORMITY

          1. 5.1. Conformant (conformant)

          2. 5.2. Not Conformant (notConformant)

          3. 5.3. Not evaluated (notEvaluated)

        6. 6. RESPONSIBLE PARTY ROLE

          1. 6.1. Resource Provider (resourceProvider)

          2. 6.2. Custodian (custodian)

          3. 6.3. Owner (owner)

          4. 6.4. User (user)

          5. 6.5. Distributor (distributor)

          6. 6.6. Originator (originator)

          7. 6.7. Point of Contact (pointOfContact)

          8. 6.8. Principal Investigator (principalInvestigator)

          9. 6.9. Processor (processor)

          10. 6.10. Publisher (publisher)

          11. 6.11. Author (author)

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