2.2.1 What is a standard for?

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2.1 Introduction to Metadata

2.1.1 What is metadata?
2.1.2 Why metadata?
2.1.3 What can you do with it?
2.1.4 Where can you find metadata?
2.1.5 Applications
2.1.6 Discovery discovery

2.2 Metadata standards

2.2.1 What is a standard for?
2.2.2 Standards for geo-information
2.2.3 Metadata standards
2.2.4 INSPIRE
2.2.5 Discovery standards

2.3 Metadata in the working process

2.3.1 How do you make metadata?
2.3.2 How do you make metadata from services?
2.3.3 Where in the working process?
2.3.4 Tips for gathering metadata
2.3.5 Publishing metadata
2.3.6 Harvesting
2.3.7 Validating
2.3.8 Discovery working process

2.4 Metadata elements

2.4.0 Overview of metadata elements
2.4.1 Title of the resource
2.4.2 Summary
2.4.3 Status
2.4.4 Level of hierarchy
2.4.5 URL
2.4.6 Protocol
2.4.7 Name
2.4.8 Unique Identifier of the resource
2.4.9 Language of the resource
2.4.10 Subject
2.4.11 Keyword
2.4.12 Thesaurus
2.4.13 Thesaurus date
2.4.14 Thesaurus date type
2.4.15 Minimum x-coordinate
2.4.16 Maximum x-coordinate
2.4.17 Minimum y-coordinate
2.4.18 Maximum y-coordinate
2.4.19 Temporal cover
2.4.20 Date of the resource
2.4.21 Date type of the resource
2.4.22 Grade of the description of quality
2.4.23 General description of origin
2.4.24 Scale of application
2.4.25 Resolution
2.4.26 Code Reference system
2.4.27 Responsible organisation for namespace reference system
2.4.28 Conformity indication with the specification
2.4.29 Clarification
2.4.30 Specification
2.4.31 Specification date
2.4.32 Specification date type
2.4.33 Legal restrictions to accessibility
2.4.34 Other constraints
2.4.35 Security restrictions
2.4.36 User constraints
2.4.37 Responsible organisation resource
2.4.38 Responsible organisation resource: email
2.4.39 Responsible organisation resource: role
2.4.40 Metadata unique identifier
2.4.41 Parent unique identifier
2.4.42 Responsible organisation metadata
2.4.43 Responsible organisation metadata: role
2.4.44 Responsible organisation metadata: email
2.4.45 Metadata date
2.4.46 Language of the metadata
2.4.47 Metadata standard name
2.4.48 Metadata Standard version
2.4.49 Discovery metadata for data

2.5 Metadata elements for services

2.5.0 Metadata elements for services overview
2.5.1 Resource Title
2.5.2 Resource abstract
2.5.3 Resource type
2.5.4 Resource locator
2.5.5 Connect Point Linkage
2.5.6 Coupled resource
2.5.7 Scoped Name
2.5.8 Coupling Type
2.5.9 Spatial data service type
2.5.10 Service Type Version
2.5.11 Operation Name
2.5.12 DCP
2.5.13 Keyword value
2.5.14 Originating controlled vocabulary
2.5.15 Geographic location
2.5.16 Temporal Reference
2.5.17 Spatial resolution
2.5.18 Degree
2.5.19 Specification
2.5.20 Constraints
2.5.21 Conditions applying to access and use
2.5.22 Responsible party
2.5.23 Responsible party role
2.5.24 Metadata point of contact
2.5.25 Metadata language
2.5.26 Metadata date
2.5.27 The link to the metadata of the dataset and dataset series from the service
2.5.28 Discovery metadata for services

2.6 What you should also know

2.6.1 Bordering rectangle
2.6.2 Reference system
2.6.3 Geo shared licence
2.6.4 Optional set metadata of data
2.6.5 Multilingual metadata
2.6.6 Object and attribute information
2.6.7 Guidelines for sectors
2.6.8 Exchanging metadata


In our daily life we use lots of standards without even thinking. In fact, there is a norm or standard available for almost anything; from tools, time, units (of measurement), and traffic signs - to the protection of personal information. There are over 2000 specifically Dutch Standards and many more which are valid in the Netherlands, because they are, for example, European or they have worldwide application. A norm or standard is a procedure, or a measurement, which a group of people has agreed to use. They describe our expectations about how humans will behave. Often, they are rules that can be executed. They also closely relate to values.

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Standards are used to stimulate exchangeability: interoperability. Interoperability is ‘the ability of one system to function effectively, or correctly, as part of another system” (system is used in its wider, more general, sense here). Take the use of French or Russian railway products on Dutch railways, for example. Stimulating interoperability between and within government institutions and between companies and citizens can only be achieved by using (open) standards.

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