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Title World Spatial Metadata Standards : Scientific and Technical Characteristics, and Full Descriptions with Crosstable / Harold Moellering, H.J. Aalders, Aaron Crane
Published Pergamon, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (710 pages)
Series International Cartographic Association
International Cartographic Association
Contents Cover image; Title page; Table of Contents; Presidential Foreword; ISO/TC 211 Foreword; GIS Foreword; Editors' Preface; Part 1: Introduction to spatial metadata standards in the world; Chapter 1: An Introduction to Metadata for Geographic Information; Publisher Summary; 1. Introduction; 2. History of metadata; 3. Fundamentals of metadata; 4. Minimal metadataset; 5. Metadata query and distribution services; 6. Experiences in the use of metadata; 7. Regional and national efforts developing metadata; 8. Summary and conclusions; Acknowledgements
Part 2: Regional summaries of spatial metadata developments and associated activitiesChapter 2: European Efforts in the Field of Geographic Metadata and Related SDI Activities; Publisher Summary; 1. Introduction; 2. European projects funded by the EU; 3. National developments in the field of SDI in Europe; 4. Summary and conclusions; Acknowledgement; References; Chapter 3: North American Metadata Standards Developments in Canada and the United States of America; Publisher Summary; 1. Regional SDI activities; 2. Overview of national metadata and SDI activities
3. National organisations for NSDI's in North America3.2. Canada; 4. Metadata activities in North America; 6. Summary and conclusion; Acknowledgements; Chapter 4: Metadata Standards Development Activities in the Asia -- Pacific Region; Publisher Summary; 1. General regional structure for spatial data organisations; 2. Identification of major national spatial data organisations; 3. Identification of specific national/regional metadata standards development activities taking place; 4. Description of metadata query/distribution services that are in operation or planned
5. Summary and conclusions with prognosis for the futureAcknowledgement; Chapter 5: Metadata Standards Development Activities in Central and South America and the Caribbean; Publisher Summary; 1. General regional structure for spatial data organisations; 2. Identification of major national spatial data organisations; 3. Identification of specific national/regional metadata standards development activities taking place; 3.5. Costa Rica; 3.6. Cuba; 3.7. El Salvador; 3.8. Guatemala; 3.9. Guyana; 3.10. Honduras; 3.11. Mexico; 3.12. Nicaragua; 3.13. Panama; 3.14. Uruguay; 3.15. Venezuela
3.16. PC IDEA4. Description of metadata query/distribution services that are planned or in operation; 5. Summary and conclusions with prognosis for the future; Chapter 6: Spatial Metadata in Africa and the Middle East; Publisher Summary; 1. Introduction; 2. General regional structure for spatial data organisation; 3. African regions; 4. Summary and conclusions; Acknowledgement; Chapter 7: Global Spatial Metadata Activities in the ISO/TC211 Geographic Information Domain; Publisher Summary; 1. Introduction to ISO; 2. ISO 19115, Metadata standard; 3. Description of ISO 19115
Summary This book represents years of work by the ICA Spatial Data Standards Commission during the 1995-2003 ICA cycles. It consists of an Introduction and six Regional Summary chapters that describe the spatial metadata activities happening in Europe, North America, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Africa/Middle East, and the ISO community. These chapters provide the broader context and description of the milieu in which these standards operate, so that the reader can more easily understand the scientific and technical framework from whence a particular standard has emerged. The third section is a compl
Notes Part I. Introduction to Spatial Metadata Standards in the World.>Part II. Regional Summaries of Spatial Metadata Developments and Associated>Activities.>Part III. Scientific and Technical Characteristics for Assessing Metadata Standards>for Geographic Datasets.>Part IV. Scientific and Technical Assessments with Full Descriptions of the>Spatial Metadata Standards.>Part V. Crosstable of National and International Spatial Metadata Standards>and Associated Characteristics
Subject Geographic information systems -- Standards
Information storage and retrieval systems -- Geography -- Standards
Metadata.
Geographic information systems -- Standards
Metadata
Form Electronic book
Author Moellering, Harold, editor
Aalders, H. J., editor
Crane, Aaron, editor
ISBN 9780080457611
0080457614