Article 1Subject matter
Article 2Definitions
Article 3Creation and maintenance of metadata
Article 4Entry into force
ANNEXMETADATA IMPLEMENTING RULES
PART AInterpretation 1.The following definitions shall apply: 2.References to the validity of spatial data sets shall be...PART BMetadata elements 1.IDENTIFICATION 1.1.Resource title 1.2.Resource abstract 1.3.Resource type 1.4.Resource locator 1.5.Unique resource identifier 1.6.Coupled resource 1.7.Resource language 2.CLASSIFICATION OF SPATIAL DATA AND SERVICES 2.1.Topic category 2.2.Spatial data service type 3.KEYWORD 3.1.Keyword value 3.2.Originating controlled vocabulary 4.GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION 4.1.Geographic bounding box 5.TEMPORAL REFERENCE 5.1.Temporal extent 5.2.Date of publication 5.3.Date of last revision 5.4.Date of creation 6.QUALITY AND VALIDITY 6.1.Lineage 6.2.Spatial resolution 7.CONFORMITY 7.1.Specification 7.2.Degree 8.CONSTRAINT RELATED TO ACCESS AND USE 8.1.Conditions applying to access and use 8.2.Limitations on public access 9.ORGANISATIONS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, MANAGEMENT, MAINTENANCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF...9.1.Responsible party 9.2.Responsible party role 10.METADATA ON METADATA 10.1.Metadata point of contact 10.2.Metadata date 10.3.Metadata language PART CInstructions on multiplicity and conditions of the metadata elements PART DValue domains 1.RESOURCE TYPE 1.1.Spatial data set series (series) 1.2.Spatial data set (dataset) 1.3.Spatial data service (service) 2.TOPIC CATEGORIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH EN ISO 19115 2.1.Farming (farming) 2.2.Biota (biota) 2.3.Boundaries (boundaries) 2.4.Climatology / Meteorology / Atmosphere (climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere) 2.5.Economy (economy) 2.6.Elevation (elevation) 2.7.Environment (environment) 2.8.Geoscientific Information (geoscientificInformation) 2.9.Health (health) 2.10.Imagery / Base Maps / Earth Cover (imageryBaseMapsEarthCover) 2.11.Intelligence / Military (intelligenceMilitary) 2.12.Inland Waters (inlandWaters) 2.13.Location (location) 2.14.Oceans (oceans) 2.15.Planning / Cadastre (planningCadastre) 2.16.Society (society) 2.17.Structure (structure) 2.18.Transportation (transportation) 2.19.Utilities / Communication (utilitiesCommunication) 3.SPATIAL DATA SERVICE TYPE 3.1.Discovery Service (discovery) 3.2.View Service (view) 3.3.Download Service (download) 3.4.Transformation Service (transformation) 3.5.Invoke Spatial Data Service (invoke) 3.6.Other Service (other) 4.CLASSIFICATION OF SPATIAL DATA SERVICES 100Geographic human interaction services (humanInteractionService) 200Geographic model/information management service (infoManagementService) 300Geographic workflow/task management services (taskManagementService) 400Geographic processing services – spatial (spatialProcessingService) 500Geographic processing services – thematic (thematicProcessingService) 600Geographic processing services – temporal (temporalProcessingService) 700Geographic processing services – metadata (metadataProcessingService) 800Geographic communication services (comService) 5.DEGREE OF CONFORMITY 5.1.Conformant (conformant) 5.2.Not Conformant (notConformant) 5.3.Not evaluated (notEvaluated) 6.RESPONSIBLE PARTY ROLE 6.1.Resource Provider (resourceProvider) 6.2.Custodian (custodian) 6.3.Owner (owner) 6.4.User (user) 6.5.Distributor (distributor) 6.6.Originator (originator) 6.7.Point of Contact (pointOfContact) 6.8.Principal Investigator (principalInvestigator) 6.9.Processor (processor) 6.10.Publisher (publisher) 6.11.Author (author)

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

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THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (Inspire)1, and in particular Article 5(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Directive 2007/2/EC lays down general rules for the establishment of the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community. Since, for the proper functioning of that infrastructure, it is necessary for a user to be able to find spatial data sets and services and to establish whether they may be used and for what purpose, Member States should provide descriptions in the form of metadata for those spatial data sets and services. Since such metadata should be compatible and usable in a Community and trans-boundary context, it is necessary to lay down rules concerning the metadata used to describe the spatial data sets and services corresponding to the themes listed in Annexes I, II and III to Directive 2007/2/EC.

(2)

The definition of a set of metadata elements is necessary in order to allow identification of the information resource for which metadata is created, its classification and identification of its geographic location and temporal reference, quality and validity, conformity with implementing rules on the interoperability of spatial data sets and services, constraints related to access and use, and organisation responsible for the resource. Metadata elements related to the metadata record itself are also necessary to monitor that the metadata created are kept up to date, and for identifying the organisation responsible for the creation and maintenance of the metadata. This is the minimum set of metadata elements necessary to comply with Directive 2007/2/EC and does not preclude the possibility for organisations to document the information resources more extensively with additional elements derived from international standards or working practices in their community of interest. Nor does it preclude the possibility to adopt guidelines established and kept up to date by the Commission, in particular when it is necessary to ensure the interoperability of metadata.

(3)

Instructions are necessary for the validation of metadata in accordance with Directive 2007/2/EC with regard to the conditions and expected multiplicity of each metadata element, that is to say, whether values for each element are always to be expected in the metadata record, can occur only once, or can occur more than once.

(4)

The value domain of each metadata element is necessary to ensure interoperability of metadata in a multilingual context and that value domain should be able to take the form of free text, dates, codes derived from international standards, such as language codes, keywords derived from controlled lists or thesauri, or character strings.

(5)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee established by Article 22 of Directive 2007/2/EC,

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