ICSM ISO19115-1 Metadata Best Practice Guide

Metadata Responsible Party ★★★★★

A contact for the person responsible for a metadata record is useful to current and future users and managers of the resource and catalogue.

   
Element Name contact
Parent MD_Metadata
Class/Type CI_Responsibility
Governance Common ICSM, Agency
Purpose Discovery, Data Management, Communications
Audience machine resource - ⭑ ⭑
  general - ⭑ ⭑ ⭑ ⭑ ⭑
  resource manager - ⭑ ⭑ ⭑ ⭑ ⭑
  specialist - ⭑ ⭑ ⭑
Metadata type administrative
ICSM Level of Agreement ⭑ ⭑ ⭑ ⭑

Definition

Name and contact information about the organisation, role and individual who is responsible for the metadata record.

ISO Obligation

Discussion

This element refers to the party responsible for the metadata record itself and the maintenance of this metadata record. It does not refer to the party responsible for the resource the metadata describes.

This is a compound element of type CI_ResponsibleParty. At least one must be present. Recommended role value - “PointOfContact” with attached email; other roles can be added as required

ICSM Best Practice Recommendations

Therefore - in order to meet ICSM best practice, in all metadata records, at least one contact should be given for the party responsible for the metadata itself. One entry should be role code “Point of Contact”. In addition, for minimal conformity, name (of organisation preferred), positionName and electrronicMailAddress should also be populated. The use of the new partyIdentifier element added in the 2018 amendment to the standard is encouraged by all parties.

Follow the general guidelines for CI_Responsibility.

Also Consider

Crosswalk considerations

ISO19139

See discussion at CI_Responsibility

Dublin core / CKAN / data.gov.au

Maps to contact

DCAT

Maps to dcat:contactPoint

RIF-CS

Maps to Related Party

Examples

XML -

<mdb:MD_Metadata>
...
 <mdb:contact>
  <cit:CI_Responsibility>
   <cit:role>
    <cit:CI_RoleCode 
    codeList="https://schemas.isotc211.org/19115/resources/Codelist/cat
    /codelists.xml#CI_RoleCode"
    codeListValue="pointOfContact"/>
   </cit:role>
   <cit:party>
    <cit:CI_Organisation>
     <cit:name>
      <gco:CharacterString>OpenWork Ltd</gco:CharacterString>
     </cit:name>
     <cit:contactInfo>
      <cit:CI_Contact>
       <cit:address>
        <cit:CI_Address>
         <cit:electronicMailAddress>
          <gco:CharacterString>name@email.org</gco:CharacterString>
         </cit:electronicMailAddress>
        </cit:CI_Address>
       </cit:address>
      </cit:CI_Contact>
     </cit:contactInfo>
     <cit:individual>
      <cit:CI_Individual>
       <cit:name>
        <gco:CharacterString>Metadata Bob</gco:CharacterString>
       </cit:name>
       <cit:positionName gco:nilReason="missing">
        <gco:CharacterString/>
       </cit:positionName>
      </cit:CI_Individual>
     </cit:individual>
    </cit:CI_Organisation>
   </cit:party>
   </cit:CI_Responsibility>
 </mdb:contact>
....
</mdb:MD_Metadata>

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UML diagrams

Recommended elements highlighted in yellow

Responsibility

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