Metadata General Guidelines

The aim of the Metadata General Guidelines is to provide best practices / guidance for the use of DGIWG Metadata Fundation (DMF) by the military community.

This general guidelines apply to DMF 2.0.

Introduction to Metadata

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Introduction to DMF

Scope

Conformances

Normative references

Terms, Definitions and Abreviations

DMF Metadata Elements

• Detailed Requirements

• • Metadata

• • Identification

• • Data Identification

• • Service Identification

• • Coverage Description

• • Vector Representation

• • Feature Catalogue

• • Spatiotemporal

• • Management

• • • Constraint

• • • Quality

• • • Distribution

• • • Acquisition Information

• Data Types

• • Basic Types

• • Complex types

• Vocabularies

• • Boolean

• • Cell Geometry Codelist

• • Character Set Codelist

• • Classification Level Codelist

• • Coupling Type Codelist

• • Coverage Content Type Codelist

• • Data Types

• • Date Type Codelist

• • Dimension Name Codelist

• • Dissemination Constraint Codelist

• • Distributed Computing Platform Codelist

• • Frequency Codelist

• • Geometric Object Type Codelist

• • Geopositioning Level Codelist

• • Geopositioning Model Type Codelist

• • Geospatial Information Type Codelist

• • Imagery Association Codelist

• • Imaging Condition Codelist

• • Keyword Type Codelist

• • Language Codelist

• • Medium Name Codelist

• • Online Function Codelist

• • Polarisation Codelist

• • Quality element Codelist

• • Representation Form Codelist

• • Resource Type Codelist

• • Restriction Codelist

• • Role Codelist

• • SAR Collection Mode Codelist

• • Sensor Type Codelist

• • Spatial Representation Type Codelist

• • Spectral Mode Information Codelist

• • Status Codelist

• • Thematic Codelist

• • Topic Category Enumeration

• • Topology Level Codelist

• • Type Codelist

• • Unit of Measure Codelist

• • Vector Geometry Codelist

Standard interchange of the DMF metadata elements

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Annexes

Annex A: Abstract Test Suite (Normative)

Annex B: Rules for profiling DMF (Normative)

Annex C: DMF Extensions of ISO 19115 (Normative)

Annex D: NGMP Extensions of ISO 19115 (Normative)

Annex E: Use of registered items (Informative)

Annex F: Predefined DMF profiles (Informative)

Recommandations by type of resources

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