1、BSI Standards PublicationBS EN ISO 19115-1:2014Geographic information MetadataPart 1: Fundamentals (ISO 19115-1:2014)BS EN ISO 19115-1:2014 BRITISH STANDARDNational forewordThis British Standard is the UK implementation of EN ISO19115-1:2014. It supersedes BS EN ISO 19115:2005 which iswithdrawn.The
2、UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to TechnicalCommittee IST/36, Geographic information.A list of organizations represented on this committee can beobtained on request to its secretary.This publication does not purport to include all the necessaryprovisions of a contract. Users are re
3、sponsible for its correctapplication. The British Standards Institution 2014. Published by BSI StandardsLimited 2014ISBN 978 0 580 74585 0ICS 35.240.70Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity fromlegal obligations.This British Standard was published under the authority of theStandar
4、ds Policy and Strategy Committee on 31 May 2014.Amendments issued since publicationDate Text affectedEUROPEAN STANDARD NORME EUROPENNE EUROPISCHE NORM EN ISO 19115-1 April 2014 ICS 35.240.70 Supersedes EN ISO 19115:2005English Version Geographic information - Metadata - Part 1: Fundamentals (ISO 191
5、15-1:2014) Information gographique - Mtadonnes - Partie 1: Principes de base (ISO 19115-1:2014) Geoinformation - Metadaten - Teil 1: Grundstze (ISO 19115-1:2014) This European Standard was approved by CEN on 22 February 2014. CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations
6、which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to any CEN member. This
7、 European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the same status as the official versions. CEN membe
8、rs are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portuga
9、l, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom. EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR STANDARDIZATION COMIT EUROPEN DE NORMALISATION EUROPISCHES KOMITEE FR NORMUNG CEN-CENELEC Management Centre: Avenue Marnix 17, B-1000 Brussels 2014 CEN All rights of exploitation in any form
10、 and by any means reserved worldwide for CEN national Members. Ref. No. EN ISO 19115-1:2014 EBS EN ISO 19115-1:2014EN ISO 19115-1:2014 (E) 3 Foreword This document (EN ISO 19115-1:2014) has been prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 211 “Geographic information/Geomatics“ in collaboration with Techn
11、ical Committee CEN/TC 287 “Geographic Information” the secretariat of which is held by BSI. This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by October 2014, and conflicting national standards shall b
12、e withdrawn at the latest by October 2014. Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN and/or CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. This document supersedes EN ISO 19115-1:200
13、5. According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France,
14、Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Endorsement notice The text of ISO 19115-1:2014 has been approved by CEN as EN ISO 1
15、9115-1:2014 without any modification. BS EN ISO 19115-1:2014ISO 19115-1:2014(E) ISO 2014 All rights reserved iiiContents PageForeword ivIntroduction v1 Scope . 12 Conformance . 12.1 Conformance requirements . 12.2 Abstract test suite . 23 Normative references 24 Terms and definitions . 25 Symbols an
16、d abbreviated terms . 55.1 Abbreviated terms . 55.2 Abbreviated terms Package 56 Metadata requirements. 56.1 Metadata for resources 56.2 Metadata application information . 66.3 Metadata fundamentals package and dependencies . 66.4 Citation and responsible party, Metadata application information, Lan
17、guage-characterset localisation information, and Extent information package relationships 76.5 Resource metadata class diagrams by package 86.6 Extent, Citation and Common information packages .236.7 Multilingual support for free text fields . 276.8 Implementation examples . 296.9 Metadata implement
18、ation 296.10 Discovery metadata . 296.11 Revisions . 29Annex A (normative) Abstract test suite .30Annex B (normative) Data dictionary for geographic metadata 33Annex C (normative) Metadata extensions and profiles . 128Annex D (informative) Implementation examples . 131Annex E (informative) Metadata
19、implementation . 146Annex F (normative) Discovery metadata for geographic resources 154Annex G (informative) Revisions . 157Bibliography . 167BS EN ISO 19115-1:2014ISO 19115-1:2014(E)ForewordISO (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodi
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23、on is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. ISO shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. Details of any patent rights identified during the development of the document will be in the Introduction a
24、nd/or on the ISO list of patent declarations received. www.iso.org/patentsAny trade name used in this document is information given for the convenience of users and does not constitute an endorsement.For an explanation on the meaning of ISO specific terms and expressions related to conformity assess
25、ment, as well as information about ISOs adherence to the WTO principles in the Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) see the following URL: Foreword - Supplementary informationThe committee responsible for this document is ISO/TC 211, Geographic information/Geomatics.This first edition of ISO 19115-1 ca
26、ncels and replaces ISO 19115:2003, which has been technically revised. It also incorporates the Technical Corrigendum ISO 19115:2003/Cor 1:2006.ISO 19115 consists of the following parts, under the general title Geographic information Metadata: Part 1: Fundamentals Part 2: Extensions for imagery and
27、gridded data Part 3: XML schema implementation of metadata fundamentals Technical Specification1)1) To be published.iv ISO 2014 All rights reservedBS EN ISO 19115-1:2014ISO 19115-1:2014(E)IntroductionRecent advancement of computer software and hardware for managing and analysing data, particularly f
28、using with geographically referenced observations, has resulted in a vast increase in the use of digital information solutions worldwide. The resulting awareness of the importance of geography and how things relate spatially is impacting almost all aspects of society. Increasingly, individuals from
29、a wide range of disciplines outside of geographic information science and information technology are producing, enhancing, and modifying digital geographic information. As the number, complexity, and diversity of geographic information resources grow, a method for providing an understanding of all a
30、spects of these resources increases in importance.A digital geographic dataset is a representation of some model of the world for use in computer analysis and graphic display of information. The underlying model is an abstraction, requiring approximation, simplification, and omission of some aspects
31、, and is always just one of many possible “views”. To ensure that data are not misused, the assumptions and limitations affecting the creation of data must be fully documented. Typically, data are used by many people other than the producer. Metadata allows a producer to describe resources so that u
32、sers can understand the assumptions and limitations and evaluate the resources applicability for their intended use. Proper documentation will provide those unfamiliar with the data with a better understanding, and enable them to use it properly. Good quality documentation will also provide data pro
33、ducers with a keener knowledge of their holdings and will allow them to better manage data production, storage, updating, and reuse.A geographic dataset is typically thought of as structured, tabular data with a location associated with each row in a table or pixel in a grid. For the purposes of the
34、 evolving web-based information cloud, the concept of dataset can be usefully extended to include any packaged information product that is intended to be treated as a unit, defined by its scope, authorship, and intended purpose. In this broader view, any document containing geographically located ob
35、servations or interpretations can be considered a geographic dataset, whether it is structured or unstructured.The evolving distributed information system enabled by the Internet is fostering the development of service-oriented architectures in which web services are becoming important as sources of
36、 information or processing capability, and many of these services provide location-based information or functionality. Description of these services for discovery and utilization has become an important function of metadata.A significant body of information with geographic reference is contained in
37、resources that are not in digital form. These resources include maps and documents of various sorts, as well as specimens or other artefacts collected to characterize some aspect of the Earth physical, biological, or cultural. The metadata schema presented in this part of ISO 19115 is also applicabl
38、e to such resources.The objective of this part of ISO 19115 is to provide a model for describing information or resources that can have geographic extents. This part of ISO 19115 is intended to be used by information system analysts, program planners, and developers of information systems, as well a
39、s others in order to define basic principles and requirements for standardized description of information resources. This part of ISO 19115 defines metadata elements, their properties, and the relationships between elements, and establishes a common set of metadata terminology, definitions, and exte
40、nsion procedures.Although the primary purpose of this part of ISO 19115 is to describe digital information that has a geographic extent, it can be used to describe all types of resources including textual documents, initiatives, software, non-geographic information, product specifications and reposi
41、tories, i.e. it can be used to describe information resources that do not have geographic extent. Some domains have their own metadata standards, such as the Dublin Core for libraries. If necessary such standards and this part of ISO 19115 could be profiled to create a Community Schema.When implemen
42、ted by a resource provider, this part of ISO 19115 will:1) Enable information resource providers to effectively and completely characterize their resources.2) Facilitate the organisation and management of metadata for information resources. ISO 2014 All rights reserved vBS EN ISO 19115-1:2014ISO 191
43、15-1:2014(E)3) Enable appropriate use of information resources through accurate understanding of their characteristics.4) Facilitate resource discovery, access, retrieval and reuse.5) Enable users to determine whether an information resource will be of use to them.This part of ISO 19115 defines gene
44、ral-purpose metadata. More detailed models for some aspects of resource description, including quality, data-structure or imagery, are defined in other ISO geographic information standards. The metadata model described herein enables implementation of domain-specific user extensions based on a commo
45、n pattern to facilitate implementation of software using those extensions.This part of ISO 19115 is a revision of ISO 19115:2003 and ISO 19115:2003/Cor 1:2006. This revision was driven by advances in Information Technology and a shift toward the use of the Internet for access, use and management of
46、metadata as well as revisions to reference documents and individual user provided suggestions based on eight years of experience in its use.This part of ISO 19115 is fully independent from the previous version with a new name and date. Its UML packages, classes, and elements have different identifie
47、rs from the previous version. The UML from ISO 19115:2003/Cor 1:2006 will remain available in the ISO/TC 211 Harmonized Model Management Group repository. Backward compatibility is to be provided using a transformation service. Past metadata instances can continue to reference/use the previous versi
48、on.The purpose of metadata is to describe resources. This description may remain with the data and does not change. It can be used both to interpret the data and to search for (discover) the data. Large amounts of older data exists compliant with ISO 19115:2003, and newer data exists (which is still
49、 being produced) to national or regional profiles of ISO 19115:2003. This data will remain as it is currently defined. New data production to new product specifications will build upon the revision of ISO 19115 making use of the expanded descriptive capabilities. With the introduction of this revision of ISO 19115, a mixed data environment exists. Systems that support data discovery in compliance with the revision of ISO 19115 need to also be able to also recognize and interpret metadata in the ISO 19115:2003 form so that all data in a mixed environment c
