Standards
For USGIN purposes, a standard is a specification for some operation or artifact type that is under the stewardship and authority of some outside organization. USGIN participants may be involved with groups that maintain these standards, but this activity is outside the purview of the USGIN Steering Committee.
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CORDRA Content Object Repository Discovery and Registration/Resolution Architecture |
CORDRA is an effort to define a framework for the federation of digital collections. The framework aka “CORDRA specification” is intended to be an open, standards-based model for designing and... CORDRA home page |
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FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM) |
The objectives of the CSDGM are to provide a common set of
terminology and definitions for the documentation of digital geospatial
data. The standard establishes the names of data elements and... FGDC Geospatial Metadata Standards |
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Geography Markup Language |
The OpenGIS® Geography Markup Language Encoding Standard (GML) is an XML grammar for expressing geographical features. GML serves as a modeling language for geographic systems as well as an open... Geography Markup Language home |
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GeoSciML Xml markup language |
The GeoSciML application is a standards-based data format
that provides a framework for application-neutral encoding of geoscience
thematic data and related spatial data. GeoSciML Home |
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IETF RFC 3986 - Universal Resource Identifier |
A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a compact sequence of characters that identifies an abstract or physical resource. This specification defines the generic URI syntax and a process for resolving... http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986 |
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ISO 19115 |
ISO 19115 standard for geospatial metadata. This is a content standard for metadata for data, datasets, and data series. ISO 19119 specifies a metadata content model for describing geospatial web... http://iso.org |
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ISO 19119 |
ISO 19119 standard for geospatial services http://iso.org |
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ISO 19139 |
ISO 19139 implementation standard for geospatial dataset (ISO 19115) and service (ISO 19119) metadata. http://iso.org |
| North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic Information |
The North
American Profile of ANSI Standards Store, INCITS 453-2009, $30.00 |
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OGC Catalog service for the web (CSW 2.0.2) |
The OpenGIS® Catalogue Services Interface Standard (CAT) supports the
ability to publish and search collections of descriptive information
(metadata) about geospatial data, services and related... Open Geospatial Consortium CSW page |
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OGC CSW APISO - OGC ISO19115/ISO19119 application profile for CSW 2.0 |
This document specifies a profile of the OGC Catalog Service for the Web (CSW) 2.0.2 using the ISO 19115/ISO19119 metadata content model, with support for XML encoding per ISO19139 and HTTP... OpenGIS Catalog Services Specification 2.0.2 - ISO Metadata Application Profile (1.0.0) |
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W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML) |
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a simple, very flexible text format derived
from SGML (ISO 8879). Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale
electronic publishing, XML is also... XML current technical recommendation |
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W3C SKOS |
SKOS provides a standard way to represent knowledge organization systems using the Resource Description Framework (RDF). Encoding this information in RDF allows it to be passed between computer... SKOS Reference 18 August 2009 |
