NATURE-SDIplus Metadata Specification

Co-funded by the Community Programme eContentplusECP-2007-GEO-317007

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GOALS OF THE METADATA FOR THE PROJECT To allow discovery and use of datasets To provide a relevant and comprehensive description of NATURE-

SDIplus datasets: datasets from the nature conservation domain in the scope of the

INSPIRE directive. To give for data providers recommendations and guidelines to build an

INSPIRE compliant catalogue.

DATASETS INTO THE NATURE-SDIplus SCOPE Datasets concerned by the following INSPIRE themes:

Annex I: Protected Sites Annex III: Biogeographical region, Habitats and biotopes, Species

distributions

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NORMATIVE FOUNDATION OF NATURE-SDIplus METADATA

INSPIRE implementing rules and guidelines

Conceptual ModelISO 19115:2005, Geographic information – MetadataISO 19119:2005, Geographic information - Services

Encoding ISO TS 19139 Metadata XML encoding

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ORGANISATION AND CONTENT

INSPIRE Implementing Rules for metadata

INSPIRE Metadata regulation

Metadata are organized through three levels

Metadata from the INSPIRE core elements, common to all NATURE-SDIplus metadata.

Elements are:- Title, abstract,- INSPIRE Theme,- Bounding Box,-...

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INSPIRE Implementing Rules for metadata

Metadata for all themes

ORGANISATION AND CONTENT

Result of the user-needs identifiedRequirements by INSPIRE DS annex I

Common metadata elements to all the metadata describing Dataset

Elements are:

- Spatial representation- Type of geometry: curve,

polygon, axis description

- Lineage: How the data have been produced.

- The coordinate reference system-...

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INSPIRE Implementing Rules for metadata (table 1)

Metadata for all themes (table 2)

Specific metadata for protected Sites

Profile for Protected Sites

ORGANISATION AND CONTENT

Requirements from INSPIRE DS Protected Sites

Third level: specific for each INSPIRE Annex

Metadata elements specific for the protected sites metadata

Elements are:

- Application schema: the INSPIRE application schema used to produce the data

- Quality elements: percent of missing data

- ...

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INSPIRE Implementing Rules for metadata

Metadata for all themes

Specific metadata for biogeographical regions

Specific metadata for Habitats & Biotopes

Specific metadata for Species Distribution

Profile for Bio-geographical

regions

Profile for Habitats & Biotopes

Profile for Species Distribution

ORGANISATION AND CONTENT

NATURE-SDIplus Specific metadata elements

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NATURE-SDIplus SPECIFIC ELEMENTS

ISO 19115 metadata elements not required by INSPIRE regulation:

For Habitats and Biotopes:

• Acquisition method: method used to acquire the data

NATURE-SDIplus Metadata Extension:

Species information:

• Taxon include within the species distribution data

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NATURE-SDIplus ISO 19115 EXTENSION FOR SPECIES DISTRIBUTION Goals :

To identify and describe uniquely a species or a group of species which are described in dataset

To Build catalogue index on taxonomic rank of the species

Vernacular Name : Bonelli eagletaxon rank Name : SpeciesTaxon Rank value : Hieraeetus FaciatusauthorCitation : Viellot 1822

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INSPIRE Implementing Rules for metadata

Metadata for all themes

Specific metadata for protected Sites

Specific metadata for biogeographical regions

Specific metadata for Habitats & Biotopes

Specific metadata for Species Distribution

Profile for Protected Sites

Profile for Bio-geographical

regions

Profile for Habitats & Biotopes

Profile for Species Distribution

Profile for Spatial services

ORGANISATION AND CONTENT

Finally, six metadata profiles are defined