7. LINZ Geospatial Metadata Standards Project

Derek reported back on his work as part of the Geospatial Metadata Standards project team. They have hired a consultant to do work on a profile of ISO 19115, focussing on discovery and fitness for purpose. The ISO set has 400 elements, many of which are mandatory. The group have developed a draft standard (200 pages) and a draft guide (250 pages). Derek circulated the first 18 pages of the guide as an illustration of content. He ran through some of the main headings to explain a little of how it works

i. Metadata module -metadata elements describing the metadata itself (Administrative metadata). The elements are people etc who are involved in creating the metadata, not the creation of the data.

ii. Spatial and Extent module - there are various options for relating NZGLS Coverage to these metadata elements

iii. Resource Identification Module - more like NZGLS metadata, and showing some influence from NZGLS. This module has a distributor element which is like NZGLS availability

iv. Data Characteristics Module - who can use the data and how, which equates to Rights and access constraints

v. Data Quality - where did the data come from? What was the source of the key elements?

There is also a table which explains the Geospatial Metadata set's relationship to NZGLS. Also issued in draft are a Recommendations paper and a Next Steps paper. The Working group was pleased to see the clear linkages between the geospatial work and the NZGLS metadata standard.

Action: Derek to write a paper on the links and exclusions between the NZGLS and Geospatial systems