Citations in ISO Metadata

High-quality metadata communicates with the

future

Ted HabermannDirector of Earth Science The HDF Groupthabermann@hdfgroup.orgApril 2012

Metadata Types and Sharing

Discovery

Use / Mashup

Understanding

Discovery Portal

Community Metadata Collections

UserUser

More information is required for understanding data than discovering or using it.

Citations For Discovery

dataIdentification/citation

metadata/alternativeMetadataReference

metadata/metadataStandard

dataIdentification/additionalDocumentation

dataIdentification/descriptiveKeywords/thesaurus

Citations For Understanding

lineage/source/sourceCitation & sourceMetadata

associatedResource/metadataReference

associatedResource/name

lineage/processingInformation/algorithm/citation

lineage/processStep/referencelineage/processingInformation/softwareReference & documentation

Citations For Data Quality

dataQuality/conformanceResult/specification

dataQuality/standAloneReport/reportReference

dataQuality/element/evaluationProcedure & referenceDoc

dataQuality/dataQualityMeasure/citation

Metadata

Where Are Citations?

XML

dataset /resource

source

keywordthesaurus& ontology

evaluationprocedure

standardspecification

algorithm featurecatalog

applicationschema

alternatemetadata

metadata& servicestandard

associatedresource

name/metadata

additionaldocumentation

constraintsreference

sourcemetadata

processreference &

documentation

softwarereference

featurecatalog

formatspecification

Documentation

Questions?

thabermann@hdf.org