Attribute Convention for Data Discovery ISO Translation Notes
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The translation between the Attribute Conventions for Data Discovery is subject to a number of assumptions or conventions described here.
People
The ACDD includes several types of people:
ACDD Attributes | ISO Locations |
creator_name, creator_email, creator_url, institution | citation/citedResponsibleParty role=originator, point of contact, and metadata contact |
contributor_name, contributor_role | citation/citedResponsibleParty role=originator (may need adjustment) |
publisher_name, publisher_email, publisher_url | distributor and Data Center keyword |
project | Project keyword, aggregation information (initiative type = project) |
Keywords
The ACDD includes several attributes that make sense as keywords in ISO:
ACDD Attributes | ISO Locations |
keywords | theme keywords with thesaurus given by the keywords_vocabulary attribute |
project | Project keyword with unknown thesaurus and aggregation information (initiative type = project) |
publisher_name | Data Center keyword with unknown thesaurus |
standard_names for parameters | theme keywords with thesaurus = standard_name_vocabulary |
publisher_name, publisher_email, publisher_url | distributor and Data Center keyword |