ICSM ISO19115-1 Metadata Best Practice Guide

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

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.

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 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>

\pagebreak

UML diagrams

Recommended elements highlighted in yellow

ResourceCitation

\pagebreak