Resource Responsible Party ★★★★★

Contact information for the parties responsible for various aspects of a resource is useful to users and managers of the resource and improves the ability of these parties to communicate. Some of the most basic users needs of a cited resource are to know who to contact for more information for information about different aspects of the resource. In ISO 19115-1 we capture this information in MD_identification.citation.


Element Name	citedResponsibleParties
Parent	MD_Metadata.identificationInfo>MD_Identificationcitation>CI_Citation
Class/Type	CI_Responsibility
Governance	Common ICSM, Agency, Domain
Purpose	Discovery, Identification, Communication
Audience	machine resource - ⭑ ⭑
	general - ⭑ ⭑ ⭑ ⭑ ⭑
	resource manager - ⭑ ⭑ ⭑ ⭑
	specialist - ⭑ ⭑ ⭑
Metadata type	descriptive, administrative
ICSM Level of Agreement	⭑⭑⭑⭑

Definition

Name, role, and instructions for contacting the organisation, role and/or individual responsible for the cited resource.

ISO Obligation

There may be zero or more [0..*] citedResponsibleParties provided for the cited resource in the MD_Identification.citation package. These will be of class CI_Responsibility. The resource may be of type Data MD_DataIdentification or of type Service *[SV_ServiceIdentification]

Discussion

This element captures contact information for those parties responsible for various aspects of the cited resource. It does not refer to the party responsible for the metadata record itself. General contact information for the resource should be captured in Resource Point of Contact.

There may be multiple responsible parties who hold different responsibilities. The responsibility of each party is captured in the element CI_Responsibility > role. Entries for “author” and “publisher” are recommended.

ICSM Best Practice Recommendations

Therefore - to meet ICSM best practice, in all metadata records, contact information should be given for the parties responsible for different aspects of the creation, management and maintenance of the resource. Entries for “author” and “publisher” should be provided. In addition, for minimal conformity, name (of organisation preferred), positionName and electronicMailAddress should also be populated. The use of the new partyIdentifier element added in the 2018 amendment to the standard is encouraged by all parties.

This element should be populated in all metadata records with a minimum of role, name (of organisation preferred), positionName and electronicMailAddress.

Recommended Sub-Elements

Follow the general guidelines for CI_Responsibility.

Recommended role values should include (but not be limited to) include “Point of Contact” as well as an entry for “publisher”. “author” or “publisher”.

Also Consider

Resource Point of Contact - contact information for the recommended party to contact about the resource
Metadata Responsible Party - contact information for the recommended party to contact about the metadata
DistributionInfo - includes distributor contact information
Citation - the parent package of which resouce responsible party is a part
Resource Citation - parent to this element

Crosswalk considerations

ISO19139

See discussion at CI_Responsibility

Dublin core / CKAN / data.gov.au

Maps to publisher

DCAT

Maps to dct:publisher

RIF-CS

Maps to Publisher

Examples

XML

<mdb:MD_Metadata>
....
 <mdb:identificationInfo>
  <mri:MD_DataIdentification>
  ....
    <mri:citation>
     <cit:CI_Citation>
       <cit:title>
        <gco:CharacterString>OpenWork geographical data
        </gco:CharacterString>
       </cit:title>
       <cit:date>
        <cit:CI_Date>
          <cit:date>
           <gco:Date>2019-07-18</gco:Date>
          </cit:date>
          <cit:dateType>
           <cit:CI_DateTypeCode 
           codeList="https://schemas.isotc211.org/19115/resources
           /Codelist/cat/codelists.xml#CI_DateTypeCode" 
           codeListValue="creation"/>
          </cit:dateType>
        </cit:CI_Date>
       </cit:date>
       <cit:date>
        <cit:CI_Date>
          <cit:date>
           <gco:Date>2019-07-18</gco:Date>
          </cit:date>
          <cit:dateType>
           <cit:CI_DateTypeCode 
           codeList="https://schemas.isotc211.org/19115/resources
           /Codelist/cat/codelists.xml#CI_DateTypeCode" 
           codeListValue="publication"/>
          </cit:dateType>
        </cit:CI_Date>
       </cit:date>
       <cit:edition>
        <gco:CharacterString>Version 0.1</gco:CharacterString>
       </cit:edition>
       <cit:editionDate>
        <gco:Date>2019-07-18</gco:Date>
       </cit:editionDate>
       <cit:identifier>
        <mcc:MD_Identifier>
          <mcc:code>
          <gco:CharacterString>9547e07e-6a15-403b-8b19-488778fe0cf0
          </gco:CharacterString>
          </mcc:code>
          <mcc:codeSpace>
           <gco:CharacterString>
           http://202.49.243.69:8080/geonetwork/srv/eng/metadata/
           </gco:CharacterString>
          </mcc:codeSpace>
        </mcc:MD_Identifier>
       </cit:identifier>
       <cit:citedResponsibleParty>
        <cit:CI_Responsibility>
          <cit:role>
           <cit:CI_RoleCode 
           codeList="https://schemas.isotc211.org/19115/resources
           /Codelist/cat/codelists.xml#CI_RoleCode" 
           codeListValue="author"/>
          </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>info@openwork.nz
                    </gco:CharacterString>
                   </cit:electronicMailAddress>
                 </cit:CI_Address>
                </cit:address>
              </cit:CI_Contact>
             </cit:contactInfo>
           </cit:CI_Organisation>
          </cit:party>
        </cit:CI_Responsibility>
       </cit:citedResponsibleParty>
       <cit:citedResponsibleParty>
        <cit:CI_Responsibility>
          <cit:role>
           <cit:CI_RoleCode 
           codeList="https://schemas.isotc211.org/19115/resources
           /Codelist/cat/codelists.xml#CI_RoleCode" 
           codeListValue="publisher"/>
          </cit:role>
          <ci
          t:party>
           <cit:CI_Individual>
             <cit:name>
              <gco:CharacterString>Byron Cochrane
              </gco:CharacterString>
             </cit:name>
             <cit:contactInfo>
              <cit:CI_Contact>
                <cit:address>
                 <cit:CI_Address>
                   <cit:electronicMailAddress>
                    <gco:CharacterString>byron@openwork.nz
                    </gco:CharacterString>
                   </cit:electronicMailAddress>
                 </cit:CI_Address>
                </cit:address>
              </cit:CI_Contact>
             </cit:contactInfo>
           </cit:CI_Individual>
          </cit:party>
        </cit:CI_Responsibility>
       </cit:citedResponsibleParty>
     </cit:CI_Citation>
    </mri:citation>
   ....
  </mri:MD_DataIdentification>
 </mdb:identificationInfo>
....
</mdb:MD_Metadata>

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UML diagrams

Recommended elements highlighted in yellow

ResourceCitation

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