creation Date identifies when the resource was brought into existence publication Date identifies when the resource was issued revision Date identifies when the resource was examined or re-examined and improved or amended download Online instructions for transferring data from one storage device or system to another information Online information about the resource offlineAccess Online instructions for requesting the resource from the provider order Online order process for obtening the resource search Online search interface for seeking out information about the resource documentDigital Digital representation of a primarily textual item (can contain illustrations also) imageDigital Likeness of natural or man-made features, objects, and activities acquired through the sensing of visual or any other segment of the electromagnetic spectrum by sensors, such as thermal infrared, and high resolution radar and stored in digital format documentHardcopy Representation of a primarily textual item (can contain illustrations also) on paper, photographic material, or other media imageHardcopy Likeness of natural or man-made features, objects, and activities acquired through the sensing of visual or any other segment of the electromagnetic spectrum by sensors, such as thermal infrared, and high resolution radar and reproduced on paper, photographic material, or other media for use directly by the human user mapDigital Map represented in raster or vector form mapHardcopy Map printed on paper, photographic material, or other media for use directly by the human user modelDigital Multi-dimensional digital representation of a feature, process, etc. modelHardcopy 3-Dimensional, physical model profileDigital Vertical cross-section in digital form profileHardcopy Vertical cross-section printed on paper, etc. tableDigital Digital representation of facts or figures systematically displayed, especially in columns tableHardcopy Representation of facts or figures systematically displayed, especially in columns, printed onpapers, photographic material, or other media videoDigital Digital video recording videoHardcopy Video recording on film resourceProvider Party that supplies the resource custodian Party that accepts accountability and responsibility for the data and ensures appropriate care and maintenance of the resource owner Party that owns the resource user Party who uses the resource distributor Party who distributes the resource originator Party who created the resource pointOfContact Party who can be contacted for acquiring knowledge about or acquisition of the resource principalInvestigator Key party responsible for gathering information and conducting research processor Party that has processed the data in a manner such that the resource has been modified publisher Party who published the resource author Party who authored the resource directInternal Method of evaluating the quality of a dataset based on inspection of items within the dataset, where all data required is internal to the dataset being evaluated directExternal Method of evaluating the quality of a dataset based on inspection of items within the dataset, where reference data external to the dataset being evaluated is required indirect Method of evaluating the quality of a dataset based on external knowledge crossReference Reference from one dataset to another largerWorkCitation Reference to a master dataset of which this one is a part partOfSeamlessDatabase Part of the same structured set of data held in a computer source Mapping and charting information from which the dataset content originates stereoMate Part of a set of imagery that when used together, provides three-dimensional images campaign Series of organized planned actions collection Accumulation of datasets assembled for a specific purpose exercise Specific performance of a function or group of functions experiment Process designed to find if something is effective or valid investigation Search or systematic inquiry mission Specific operation of a data collection system sensor Device or piece of equipment which detects or records operation Action that is part of a series of actions platform Vehicle or other support base that holds a sensor process Method of doing something involving a number of steps program Specific planned activity project Organized undertaking, research, or development study Examination or investigation task Piece of work trial Process of testing to discover or demonstrate something point Each cell represents a point area Each cell represents an area ucs2 16-bit fixed size Universal Character Set, based on ISO/IEC 10646 ucs4 32-bit fixed size Universal Character Set, based on ISO/IEC 10646 utf7 7-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 utf8 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 utf16 16-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 8859part1 ISO/IEC 8859-1, Information technology - 8-bit single byte coded graphic character sets - Part 1 : Latin alphabet No.1 8859part2 ISO/IEC 8859-2, Information technology - 8-bit single byte coded graphic character sets - Part 2 : Latin alphabet No.2 8859part3 ISO/IEC 8859-3, Information technology - 8-bit single byte coded graphic character sets - Part 3 : Latin alphabet No.3 8859part4 ISO/IEC 8859-4, Information technology - 8-bit single byte coded graphic character sets - Part 4 : Latin alphabet No.4 8859part5 ISO/IEC 8859-5, Information technology - 8-bit single byte coded graphic character sets - Part 5 : Latin/Cyrillic alphabet 8859part6 ISO/IEC 8859-6, Information technology - 8-bit single byte coded graphic character sets - Part 6 : Latin/Arabic alphabet 8859part7 ISO/IEC 8859-7, Information technology - 8-bit single byte coded graphic character sets - Part 7 : Latin/Greek alphabet 8859part8 ISO/IEC 8859-8, Information technology - 8-bit single byte coded graphic character sets - Part 8 : Latin/Hebrew alphabet 8859part9 ISO/IEC 8859-9, Information technology - 8-bit single byte coded graphic character sets - Part 9 : Latin alphabet No.5 8859part10 ISO/IEC 8859-10, Information technology - 8-bit single byte coded graphic character sets - Part 10 : Latin alphabet No.6 8859part11 ISO/IEC 8859-11, Information technology - 8-bit single byte coded graphic character sets - Part 11 : Latin/Thai alphabet 8859part13 ISO/IEC 8859-13, Information technology - 8-bit single byte coded graphic character sets - Part 13 : Latin alphabet No.7 8859part14 ISO/IEC 8859-14, Information technology - 8-bit single byte coded graphic character sets - Part 14 : Latin alphabet No.8 (Celtic) 8859part15 ISO/IEC 8859-15, Information technology - 8-bit single byte coded graphic character sets - Part 15 : Latin alphabet No.9 8859part16 ISO/IEC 8859-16, Information technology - 8-bit single byte coded graphic character sets - Part 16 : Latin alphabet No.10 jis Japanese code set used for electronic transmission shiftJIS Japanese code set used on MS-DOS machines eucJP Japanese code set used on UNIX based machines usAscii United States ASCII code set (ISO 646 US) ebcdic IBM mainframe code set eucKR Korean code set big5 Traditional Chinese code set used in Taiwan, Hong Kong of China and other areas GB2312 Simplified Chinese code set unclassified Available for general disclosure restricted Not for general disclosure confidential Available for someone who can be entrusted with information secret Kept or meant to be kept private, unknown, or hidden from all but a select group of people topSecret Of the highest secrecy image Meaningful numerical representation of a physical parameter that is not the actual value of the physical parameter thematicClassification Code value with no quantitative meaning, used to represent a physical quantity physicalMeasurement Value in physical units of the quantity being measured class Descriptor of a set of objects that share the same attributes, operations, methods, relationships, and behavior codelist Descriptor of a set of objects that share the same attributes, operations, methods, relationships, and behavior enumeration Data type whose instances form a list of named literal values, not extendable codelistElement Permissible value for a codelist or enumeration abstractClass Class that cannot be directly instantiated aggregateClass Class that is composed of classes it is connected to by an aggregate relationship specifiedClass Subclass that may be substituted for its superclass datatypeClass Class with few or no operations whose primary purpose is to hold the abstract state of another class for transmittal, storage, encoding or persistent storage interfaceClass Named set of operations that characterize the behavior of an element unionClass Class describing a selection of one of the specified types metaClass Class whose instances are classes typeClass Class used for specification of a domain of instances (objects), together with the operations applicable to the objects. A type may have attributes and associations characterString Free text field integer Numerical field association Semantic relationship between two classes that involves connections among their instances row Ordinate (y) axis column Abscissa (x) axis vertical Vertical (z) axis track Along the direction of motion of the scan point crossTrack Perpendicular to the direction of motion of the scan point line Scan line of a sensor sample Element along a scan line time Duration complex Set of geometric primitives such that their boundaries can be represented as a union of other primitives composite Connected set of curves, solids or surfaces curve Bounded, 1-dimensional geometric primitive, representing the continuous image of a line point Zero-dimensional geometric primitive, representing a position but not having an extent solid Bounded, connected 3-dimensional geometric primitive, representing the continuous image of a region of space surface Bounded, connected 2-dimensional geometric primitive, representing the continuous image of a region of a plane blurredImage Portion of the image is blurred cloud Portion of the image is partially obscured by cloud cover degradingObliquity Acute angle between the plane of the ecliptic (the plane of the Earth s orbit) and the plane of the celestial equator fog Portion of the image is partially obscured by fog heavySmokeOrDust Portion of the image is partially obscured by heavy smoke or dust night Image was taken at night rain Image was taken during rainfall semiDarkness Image was taken during semi-dark conditions -- twilight conditions shadow Portion of the image is obscured by shadow snow Portion of the image is obscured by snow terrainMasking The absence of collection data of a given point or area caused by the relative location of topographic features which obstruct the collection path between the collector(s) and the subject(s) of interest discipline Keyword identifies a branch of instruction or specialized learning place Keyword identifies a location stratum Keyword identifies the layer(s) of any deposited substance temporal Keyword identifies a time period related to the dataset theme Keyword identifies a particular subject or topic continual Data is repeatedly and frequently updated daily Data is updated each day weekly Data is updated on a weekly basis fortnightly Data is updated every two weeks monthly Data is updated each month quarterly Data is updated every three months biannually Data is updated twice each year annually Data is updated every year asNeeded Data is updated as deemed necessary irregular Data is updated in intervals that are uneven in duration notPlanned There are no plans to update the data unknown Frequency of maintenance for the data is not known cpio CoPy In / Out (UNIX file format and command) tar Tape ARchive highSierra High sierra file system iso9660 Information processing volume and file structure of CD-ROM iso9660RockRidge Rock ridge interchange protocol (UNIX) iso9660AppleHFS Hierarchical file system (Macintosh) cdRom Read-only optical disk dvd Digital versatile disk dvdRom Digital versatile disk, read only 3halfInchFloppy 3,5 inch magnetic disk 5quarterInchFloppy 5,25 inch magnetic disk 7trackTape 7 track magnetic tape 9trackType 9 track magnetic tape 3480Cartridge 3480 cartridge tape drive 3490Cartridge 3490 cartridge tape drive 3580Cartridge 3580 cartridge tape drive 4mmCartridgeTape 4 millimetre magnetic tape 8mmCartridgeTape 8 millimetre magnetic tape 1quarterInchCartridgeTape 0,25 inch magnetic tape digitalLinearTap Half inch cartridge streaming tape drive onLine Direct computer linkage satellite Linkage through a satellite communication system telephoneLink Communication through a telephone network hardcopy Pamphlet or leaflet giving descriptive information mandatory Element is always required optional Element is not required conditional Element is required when a specific condition is met center Point halfway between the lower left and the upper right of the pixel lowerLeft The corner in the pixel closest to the origin of the SRS; if two are at the same distance from the origin, the one with the smallest x-value lowerRight Next corner counterclockwise from the lower left upperRight Next corner counterclockwise from the lower right upperLeft Next corner counterclockwise from the upper right completed Production of the data has been completed historicalArchive Data has been stored in an offline storage facility obsolete Data is no longer relevant onGoing Data is continually being updated planned Fixed date has been established upon or by which the data will be created or updated required Data needs to be generated or updated underDevelopment Data is currently in the process of being created copyright Exclusive right to the publication, production, or sale of the rights to a literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic work, or to the use of a commercial print or label, granted by law for a specified period of time to an author, composer, artist, distributor patent Government has granted exclusive right to make, sell, use or license an invention or discovery patentPending Produced or sold information awaiting a patent trademark A name, symbol, or other device identifying a product, officially registered and legally restricted to the use of the owner or manufacturer license Formal permission to do something intellectualPropertyRights Rights to financial benefit from and control of distribution of non-tangible property that is a result of creativity restricted Withheld from general circulation or disclosure otherRestrictions Limitation not listed attribute Information applies to the attribute class attributeType Information applies to the characteristic of a feature collectionHardware Information applies to the collection hardware class collectionSession Information applies to the collection session dataset Information applies to the dataset series Information applies to the series nonGeographicDataset Information applies to non-geographic data dimensionGroup Information applies to a dimension group feature Information applies to a feature featureType Information applies to a feature type propertyType Information applies to a property type fieldSession Information applies to a field session software Information applies to a computer program or routine service Information applies to a capability which a service provider entity makes available to a service user entity through a set of interfaces that define a behaviour, such as a use case model Information applies to a copy or imitation of an existing or hypothetical object tile Information applies to a tile, a spatial subset of geographic data map map-static map-interactive vector Vector data is used to represent geographic data grid Grid data is used to represent geographic data textTable Textual or tabular data is used to represent geographic data tin Triangulated irregular network stereoModel Three-dimensional view formed by the intersecting homologous rays of an overlapping pair of images video Scene from a video recording farming Rearing of animals and/or cultivation of plants. Examples: agriculture, irrigation, aquaculture, plantations, herding, pests and diseases affecting crops and livestock biota Flora and/or fauna in natural environment. Examples: wildlife, vegetation, biological sciences, ecology, wilderness, sealife, wetlands, habitat boundaries Legal land descriptions. Examples: political and administrative boundaries climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere Processes and phenomena of the atmosphere. Examples: cloud cover, weather, climate, atmospheric conditions, climate change, precipitation economy Economic activities, conditions and employment. Examples: production, labour, revenue, commerce, industry, tourism and ecotourism, forestry, fisheries, commercial or subsistence hunting, exploration and exploitation of resources such as minerals, oil and gas elevation Height above or below sea level. Examples: altitude, bathymetry, digital elevation models, slope, derived products environment Environmental resources, protection and conservation. Examples: environmental pollution, waste storage and treatment, environmental impact assessment, monitoring environmental risk, nature reserves, landscape geoscientificInformation Information pertaining to earth sciences. Examples: geophysical features and processes, geology, minerals, sciences dealing with the composition, structure and origin of the earth s rocks, risks of earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, gravity information, soils, permafrost, hydrogeology, erosion health Health, health services, human ecology, and safety. Examples: disease and illness, factors affecting health, hygiene, substance abuse, mental and physical health, health services imageryBaseMapsEarthCover Base maps. Examples: land cover, topographic maps, imagery, unclassified images, annotations intelligenceMilitary Military bases, structures, activities. Examples: barracks, training grounds, military transportation, information collection inlandWaters Inland water features, drainage systems and their characteristics. Examples: rivers and glaciers, salt lakes, water utilization plans, dams, currents, floods, water quality, hydrographic charts location Positional information and services. Examples: addresses, geodetic networks, control points, postal zones and services, place names oceans Features and characteristics of salt water bodies (excluding inland waters). Examples: tides, tidal waves, coastal information, reefs planningCadastre Information used for appropriate actions for future use of the land. Examples: land use maps, zoning maps, cadastral surveys, land ownership society Characteristics of society and cultures. Examples: settlements, anthropology, archaeology, education, traditional beliefs, manners and customs, demographic data, recreational areas and activities, social impact assessments, crime and justice, census information structure Man-made construction. Examples: buildings, museums, churches, factories, housing, monuments, shops, towers transportation Means and aids for conveying persons and/or goods. Examples: roads, airports/airstrips, shipping routes, tunnels, nautical charts, vehicle or vessel location, aeronautical charts, railways utilitiesCommunication Energy, water and waste systems and communications infrastructure and services. Examples: hydroelectricity, geothermal, solar and nuclear sources of energy, water purification and distribution, sewage collection and disposal, electricity and gas distribution, data communication, telecommunication, radio, communication networks geometryOnly Geometry objects without any additional structure which describes topology topology1D 1-dimensional topological complex -- commonly called chain-node topology planarGraph 1-dimensional topological complex that is planar. (A planar graph is a graph that can be drawn in a plane in such a way that no two edges intersect except at a vertex.) fullPlanarGraph 2-dimensional topological complex that is planar. (A 2-dimensional topological complex is commonly called full topology in a cartographic 2D environment.) surfaceGraph 1-dimensional topological complex that is isomorphic to a subset of a surface. (A geometric complex is isomorphic to a topological complex if their elements are in a one-to-one, dimensional-and boundry-preserving correspondence to one another.) fullSurfaceGraph 2-dimensional topological complex that is isomorphic to a subset of a surface topology3D 3-dimensional topological complex. (A topological complex is a collection of topological primitives that are closed under the boundary operations.) fullTopology3D Complete coverage of a 3D Euclidean coordinate space abstract Topological complex without any specified geometric realisation attribute Information applies to the attribute class attributeType Information applies to the characteristic of a feature collectionHardware Information applies to the collection hardware class collectionSession Information applies to the collection session dataset Information applies to the dataset series Information applies to the series nonGeographicDataset Information applies to non-geographic data dimensionGroup Information applies to a dimension group feature Information applies to a feature featureType Information applies to a feature type propertyType Information applies to a property type fieldSession Information applies to a field session software Information applies to a computer program or routine service Information applies to a capability which a service provider entity makes available to a service user entity through a set of interfaces that define a behaviour, such as a use case model Information applies to a copy or imitation of an existing or hypothetical object tile Information applies to a tile, a spatial subset of geographic data initiative The referencing entity applies to a transfer aggregate which was originally identified as an initiative (DS_Initiative) stereomate The referencing entity applies to a transfer aggregate which was originally identified as a stereo mate (DS_StereoMate) sensor The referencing entity applies to a transfer aggregate which was originally identified as a sensor (DS_Sensor) platformSeries The referencing entity applies to a transfer aggregate which was originally identified as a platform series (DS_PlatformSeries) sensorSeries The referencing entity applies to a transfer aggregate which was originally identified as a sensor series (DS_SensorSeries) productionSeries The referencing entity applies to a transfer aggregate which was originally identified as a production series (DS_ProductionSeries) transferAggregate The referencing entity applies to a transfer aggregate which has no existence outside of the transfer context otherAggregate The referencing entity applies to a transfer aggregate which has an existence outside of the transfer context, but which does not pertains to a specific aggregate type. DCP is XML XML DCP is CORBA CORBA DCP is JAVA JAVA DCP is COM COM DCP is SQL SQL DCP is WebServices WebServices Tightly coupled: data associated tight Mixed coupled: data associated; in addition, external data might be processed mixed Loosely coupled: no data associated loose in out in/out