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

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.

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.

data_ISO19115.xlsx: Core level of metadata elements for geographic resources of ISO 19115

data_CSDGM.xlsx: Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata of CSDGM

data_INSPIRE.xlsx: Content Standard of INSPIRE metadata modeldata_ANZLIC.xlsx: Content Standard of ANZLIC Metadata Profile

data_integrated model.xlsx: metadata class and their elements in the integrated interoperable metadata model