Case study on an integrated interoperable metadata model for geoscience information resources

<p>An integrated metadata schema was created to promote interoperability and to characterize historically collected geoscience data. The metadata standard describes the steps taken to develop a switching‐across methodology that allows geoscience metadata standards (ISO 19115, CSDGM, ANZLIC and INSPIRE) to communicate with one another. We also demonstrated a real example of one of the switching‐across that was created. A representative metadata schema was created using items from harmonization standards that might be optimally mapped. Semantic interoperability allows users to access equivalent classes across several metadata standards in a uniform and consistent rule. It also tries to provide fundamental aspects that might characterize acquisition information to enhance data reuse and current metadata standards for data preservation and distribution.</p> <p>This dataset contains 5 data and contains the content standard of each of the four metadata schema and the metadata information of integrated metadata schema.</p> <ul> <li>data_ISO19115.xlsx: Core level of metadata elements for geographic resources of ISO 19115</li> <li>data_CSDGM.xlsx: Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata of CSDGM</li> <li>data_INSPIRE.xlsx: Content Standard of INSPIRE metadata modeldata_ANZLIC.xlsx: Content Standard of ANZLIC Metadata Profile</li> <li>data_integrated model.xlsx: metadata class and their elements in the integrated interoperable metadata model</li> </ul>