Concepts Glossary
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Glossary of Documentation Concepts
| Name | Description | Spirals |
| Abstract | A paragraph describing the resource. |
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| Acknowledgement |
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| Any Text | A target for full-text search of character data types in a catalogue |
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| Association | Complete statement of a one-to-one relationship |
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| Author / Originator Email Address | The electronic mail address of the principal author of the resource |
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| Author / Originator World Wide Web Address | The World Wide Web mail address of the principal author of the resource |
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| Bounding Box | A bounding box for identifying a geographic area of interest |
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| Common Data Model Datatype | The THREDDS data type for this resource. |
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| Contributor Name | Contributor to the resource |
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| Contributor Role | The role of any individuals or institutions that contributed to the creation of the data. |
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| Coordinate Reference System (CRS) | Geographic Coordinate Reference System (Authority and ID) for the BoundingBox |
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| Coverage | The spatial extent or scope of the content of the resource |
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| Creation Date | The date the resource was created |
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| Creator | Creator of the resource |
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| Date | The date of a creation or update event of the catalogue record. |
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| Description | A summary of the content of the resource. |
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| Easternmost Longitude | The easternmost longitude of the bounding rectangle. |
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| End Time | The end of the bounding time period |
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| Has Security Constraints | Are there any security constraints? |
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| Keyword | A word or phrase that describes some aspect of a resource. Can be one of several types. |
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| Keyword Type | Methods used to group similar keywords |
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| Keyword Vocabulary | If you are following a guideline or using a shared vocabulary for the words/phrases in your "keywords" attribute, put the name of that guideline here. |
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| Lineage Statement | Information and references for sources and processes that were used to create the dataset and an audit trail for modifications to the original data. |
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| Metadata Contact | The organization or person currently responsible for the metadata. |
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| Metadata Identifier | A phrase or string which uniquely identifies the metadata file/record. |
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| Metadata Language | Language of the metadata |
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| Metadata Use Constraints | Information about how the data may or may not be used after access is granted to assure the protection of privacy or intellectual property. This includes any special restrictions, legal prerequisites, terms and conditions, and/or limitations on using the data set. Data providers may request acknowledgement of the data from users and claim no responsibility for quality and completeness of data. |
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| Modified Date | Date on which the record was created or updated within the catalogue |
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| Naming Authority | The organization responsible for the maintenance of the identifier (namespace) |
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| Northernmost Latitude | The northernmost latitude of the bounding rectangle. |
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| Organization Name | Name of the organization |
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| Originating Organization | The organization responsible for creating the resource |
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| Other Information | Miscellaneous information about the data. |
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| Parent Identifier | A unique identifier for a parent dataset or collection |
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| Processing Level | A code that indicates the extent of processing done in the creation of a dataset. |
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| Project Name | The name of the project that the resource was associated with. |
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| Publication Date | Date of publication of the cited resource |
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| Publisher | Publisher of the cited resource |
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| Publisher E-Mail | Email associated with the publisher of the cited resource |
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| Publisher URL | World Wide Web address associated with the publisher of the cited resource |
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| Relation | A reference to a related resource. |
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| Resource Access Constraints | Information about any constraints for accessing the data set. This includes any special restrictions, legal prerequisites, limitations and/or warnings on obtaining the data set. Some words that may be used in this field include: Public, In-house, Limited, Additional detailed instructions on how to access the data can be entered in this field. |
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| Resource Contact | The organization or person responsible for answering questions about the resource. |
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| Resource Creation/Revision Date | The date the resource was created |
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| Resource Duration | The temporal duration of a resource. |
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| Resource Format | The physical or digital manifestation of the resource |
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| Resource Identifier | Identifier for the resource described by the metadata |
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| Resource Language | The language of the resource. |
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| Resource Title | A short description of the resource. The title should be descriptive enough so that when a user is presented with a list of titles the general content of the data set can be determined. |
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| Resource Type | A resource code identifying the type of resource e.g. dataset, a collection, an application (see MD_ScopeCode) which the metadata describes. |
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| Resource lineage | A description of the source(s) and production process(es) used in producing the resource. |
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| Resource on-line Link | Link (URL) in the metadata for the resource. |
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| Revision Date | Date of revision of the cited resource |
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| Rights | Information about rights held in and over the resource |
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| Source | A reference to a resource from which the present resource is derived. |
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| Southernmost Latitude | The southernmost latitude of the bounding rectangle. |
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| Spatial resolution | The nominal scale and/or spatial resolution of the resource. |
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| Standard Name Vocabulary | The name of the shared vocabulary from which variable standard names are taken. |
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| Start Time | The start of the bounding time period |
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| Subject | The topic of the content of the resource |
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| Temporal Extent | The temporal extent of the resource |
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| Temporal Resolution | The smallest time step included in the resource. |
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| Topic Category | High level category enumeration used in ISO |
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| Type | The nature or genre of the content of the resource. Type can include general categories, genres or aggregation levels of content. |
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| Vertical Extent | The vertical extent of the resource |
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| Vertical Maximum | The maximum height of the bounding rectangle |
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| Vertical Minimum | The minimum height of the bounding rectangle |
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| Westernmost Longitude | The westernmost longitude of the bounding rectangle. |
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