INSPIRE Metadata
The INSPIRE Directive requires the use of Metadata as an essential element to describe, discover and access geospatial data. Article 3, point (6), of the Directive defines Metadata as "information describing spatial data sets and spatial data services and making it possible to discover, inventory and use them". The main purpose of metadata is to document resources and facilitate their re-use by the resource owner and others both within and beyond the original community of interest. Resources may be spatial datasets, dataset series or services and are intended for the purposes of interoperability in Europe and internationally.
Data providers have to document their spatial datasets and services. The Directive states in its Article 5, Metadata, that "Member States shall ensure that metadata are created for the spatial data sets and services corresponding to the themes listed in Annexes I, II and III, and that those metadata are kept up to date. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that metadata are complete and of a quality sufficient to fulfil the purpose set out in point (6) of Article 3".
The required format for INSPIRE conformant Metadata is described in the INSPIRE Metadata Regulation, which is translated in all languages of the European Union.
URSIT provides services and consulting for the creation of Metadata. We support the definition, collection, harmonisation, cataloguing and publishing of Metadata according to the INSPIRE rules using an approved methodology and INSPIRE compliant software tools. Please contact us for any further information.
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DIRECTIVE 2007/2/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE).
INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules: Technical Guidelines based on EN ISO 19115 and EN ISO 19119.
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