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
- There must be one or more [1..*] contact packages for the cited resource in the MD_Metadata package provided in a metadata record for those responsible for the metadata itself. These will be of class CI_Responsibility.
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.
Recommended Sub-Elements
Follow the general guidelines for CI_Responsibility.
- One value of
role
should be “Point of Contact”.
Also Consider
- Resource Point of Contact Contact information for the recommended party to contact about the resource
- Resource Cited Responsible Party contact information for the parties otherwise responsible for aspects of the resource creation and maintenance.
- DistributionInfo Includes Distributor contact information.
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
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