ISO INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 19115-1 First edition 2014-04-01 Geographic information Metadata - Part 1: Fundamentals Information géographique Métadonnées - Partie 1: Principes de base Reference number ISO 19115-1:2014(E) LSO IS02014 y IHS under lic ermitted without license from IHS Not for Resale IS0 19115-1:2014(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT @ IS0 2014 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, or posting on the internet or an intranet, without prior written permission. Permission can be requested from either ISO at the address below or ISO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56:CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail copyright@iso.org Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland @ IS0 2014 - All rights reserved No reproductic networking permited without license from IHS Not for Resale IS0 19115-1:2014(E) Contents Page Foreword ..iv Introduction. ..V 1 Scope. .1 2 Conformance ..1 2.1 Conformance requirements .1 2.2 Abstracttestsuite 2 3 Normative references ..2 4 Terms and definitions .2 5 Symbols and abbreviated terms .5 5.1 Abbreviated terms .5 5.2 Abbreviated terms - Package .5 6 Metadata requirements. .5 6.1 Metadata for resources. .5 6.2 Metadata application information .6 6.3 Metadata fundamentals package and dependencies 6 6.4 Citation and responsible party, Metadata application information, Language-characterset localisation information, and Extent information package relationships 7 6.5 Resource metadata class diagrams by package ..8 6.6 Extent, Citation and Common information packages 23 6.7 Multilingual support for free text fields 27 6.8 Implementation examples 29 6.9 Metadata implementation. 29 6.10 Discovery metadata. 29 6.11 Revisions 29 Annex A (normative) Abstract test suite ..30 Annex B (normative) Data dictionary for geographic metadata .33 Annex C (normative) Metadata extensions and profiles 128 Annex D (informative) Implementation examples .131 Annex E (informative) Metadata implementation .146 Annex F (normative) Discovery metadata for geographic resources .154 Annex G (informative)Revisions. .157 Bibliography .167 iii se with ISt thout license from IHS Not for Resale