ICSM ISO19115-1 Metadata Best Practice Guide

Class MD_Scope

The capture of information about the physical extents of the resource is needed under many packeges of inforation about a cited reosurce. A standarised way of this scope is useful. This function is provided by the class MD_Scope.

Definition

the target resource and physical extent for which information is reported.

ISO Associations (May be found in)

Attributes -

Associated Classes, Codelists and Unions

MD_ScopeCode - codelist

Class of information to which the referencing entity applies

MD_ScopeDescription - union

(Union - class describing a selection of one of the specified types)

Description of the class of information covered by the information

Discussion

Information about scope of a citation of an aspect of a resource or its maintenance is of high importance to document as this information strongly impacts on the understandabillity of the resource metadata to the user.

The MD_Scope is used to describe the breadth and or type of the resource that a metadata record or class describes. It includes a MD_ScopeCode as a brief indicator of the scope which can be useful in search and presentation applications and a MD_ScopeDescription in order to provide more detail. The values in the MD_ScopeCode list are intentionally general and details of their application are left to the data provider. In order to foster interoperability, the usage of the scope codes should be carefully documented in any community of practice. Clause E.5 outlines possible applications of codes from the MD_ScopeCode codelist and related codes included in ISO/TS 19139 as part of the MX_ScopeCode list. These examples are meant to provide reasonable starting points and are certainly not exhaustive.

ICSM Best Practice Recommendations

Crosswalk considerations

ISO19139

HierarchyLevel attributes were replaced by an MD_Scope class to improve the description of the scope of the metadata;

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UML diagrams

Recommended elements highlighted in yellow

MD_Scope

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