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Many documentation dialects include mechanisms for connecting people and organizations to metadata records. There are two general approaches to these connections. The first involves including the roles of the people in the names of the metadata elements. For example, the [https://geo-ide.noaa.gov/wiki/index.php?title=NetCDF_Attribute_Convention_for_Dataset_Discovery netCDF Attribute Convention for Data Discovery] includes fields titled creator_name, creator_email, and creator_url. This approach makes it difficult to standardize because new standard elements must be added in order to add a new role, i.e. processor_name, processor_email, processor_URL.
  
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The second approach centers around a generic description of a person or an organization that includes an attribute that gives the role they play with respect to the resource being documented. This approach allows additions by extending the list of roles. See [[NetCDF,_HDF,_and_ISO_Metadata] for more details on this approach.
  
 
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==Citations==
 
Citations in metadata provide important information about how users should cite the data or service that is described by the
 
metadata. In addition, they can provide connection to relevant materials that can not be included in the metadata.
 
 
===Complete Citation===
 
'''Complete citation for the resource'''
 
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===Title===
 
'''Title of the cited resource'''
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/eml:dataset/eml:title/eml:text</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/fgdc:metadata/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:citation/fgdc:citeinfo/fgdc:title</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">dcterms:title</td>
 
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===Alternate Title===
 
'''Alternate title of the cited resource'''
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
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===Identifier===
 
'''Identifier for the cited resource'''
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
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===Author===
 
'''Author of the cited resource'''
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/fgdc:metadata/fgdc:citation/fgdc:citeinfo/fgdc:origin</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">dcterms:creator</td>
 
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===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#creator_url_Attribute Author / Originator World Wide Web Address]===
 
'''The World Wide Web mail address of the principal author of the resource'''
 
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        = 'author']/gmd:contactInfo/gmd:CI_Contact/gmd:onlineResource/gmd:CI_OnlineResource/gmd:linkage/gmd:URL
 
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===Editor===
 
'''Editor of the cited resource'''
 
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===Series Title===
 
'''Title of a series that includes the cited resource'''
 
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===Publication Date===
 
'''Date of publication of the cited resource'''
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/eml:dataset/eml:pubDate/eml:text</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/fgdc:metadata/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:citation/fgdc:citeinfo/fgdc:pubdate</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">dcterms:dateSubmitted</td>
 
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===Revision Date===
 
'''Date of revision of the cited resource'''
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
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===Creation Date===
 
'''Date of creation of the cited resource'''
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:date/gmd:CI_Date[gmd:dateType/gmd:CI_DateTypeCode='creation']/gmd:date/gco:Date</td>
 
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===Publisher===
 
'''Publisher of the cited resource'''
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
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  </tr>
 
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===Publication Place===
 
'''Place of publication of the cited resource'''
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:citedResponsibleParty/gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty[gmd:role/gmd:CI_RoleCode = ['publisher']/gmd:contactInfo/gmd:CI_Contact/gmd:address/gmd:CI_Address</td>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Version===
 
'''Version of the cited resource'''
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
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</table>
 
 
 
 
===Version Date===
 
'''Date of the version of the cited resource'''
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Data_Set_Citation/dif:Dataset_Version</td>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:editionDate/gco:DateTime</td>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/fgdc:metadata/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:citeinfo/fgdc:edition</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Volume===
 
'''Volume of the cited resource'''
 
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  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Reference/dif:Volume</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
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  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Issue===
 
'''Issue of the cited resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Reference/dif:Issue</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:series/gmd:CI_Series/gmd:issueIdentification:/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Pages===
 
'''Pages of the cited resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:series/gmd:CI_Series/gmd:page/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
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  </tr>
 
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===ISBN===
 
'''International Standard Book Number (ISBN) of the cited resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Reference/dif:ISBN</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:ISBN</td>
 
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  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===ISSN===
 
'''International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) of the cited resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:ISSN</td>
 
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  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Report Number===
 
'''Report number of the cited resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Reference/dif:Report_Number</td>
 
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  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Other Citation Details===
 
'''Other information about the cited resource'''
 
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  <tr>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Reference/dif:Report_Number</td>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:otherCitationDetails/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/eml:dataset/eml:creator/eml:individualName/eml:surName/eml:text</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Presentation Form===
 
'''Form of the cited resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Reference/dif:Data_Presentation_Form</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:presentationForm/CI_PresentationFormCode</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/fgdc:digform/fgdc:digtinfo/fgdc:formname | /fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:citation/fgdc:citeinfo/fgdc:geoform</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Online Resource===
 
'''Online Resource for the cited resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Data_Set_Citation/dif:Online_Resource</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:onlineResource/gmd:CI_OnlineResource</td>
 
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  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
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==Dataset / Granule / Metadata Identifiers==
 
The importance of unique identifiers for data is well understood in terms of data citation and unambiguous attribution. As
 
metadata are shared between National and International repositories it is becoming increasing important to be able to unambiguously
 
identify and refer to
 
      specific records. This requirement is facilitated by including an identifier for metadata and data in the metadata.
 
Some mechanism must exist for ensuring that these identifiers are unique. This is accomplished by specifying the naming authority
 
or namespace for the identifier. It is the
 
      responsibility of the manager of the namespace to ensure that the identifiers in that namespace are unique.
 
 
===Metadata Record Identifier===
 
'''A unique identifier for the metadata record'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:Entry_Id</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:fileIdentifier/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Dataset Identifier===
 
'''A unique identifier for the dataset'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Data_Set_Citation/dif:Dataset_DOI</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/echo:Collection/echo:DataSetId</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:citation/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:identifier/gmd:MD_Identifier/gmd:code/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=id]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/catalog/dataset/@ID</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Naming Authority===
 
'''The organization responsible for the maintenance of the identifier (namespace)'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:citation/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:identifier/gmd:MD_Identifier/gmd:authority</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=naming_authority]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/catalog/dataset/@ID</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Parent Identifier===
 
'''A unique identifier for a parent dataset or collection '''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:parentIdentifier/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
<a name="#"></a>
 
 
==Text Search==
 
Text searches are a very important mechanism for data discovery. This group includes attributes that contain descriptive text
 
that could be the target of these searches. Some of these attributes, for example title and summary, might also be displayed
 
in the results of text
 
      searches.
 
 
===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#title_Attribute Title]===
 
'''A short description of the dataset.'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/DIF/Entry_Title</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/Collection/ShortName&gt;/Collection/LongName</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:citation/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:title/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=title]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/catalog/dataset/@name</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/eml:dataset/eml:title/eml:text</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/fgdc:metadata/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:citation/fgdc:citeinfo/fgdc:title</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">dcterms:title</td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#summary_Attribute Abstract]===
 
'''A paragraph describing the dataset.'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/DIF/Summary/Abstract</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/Collection/Description</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:abstract/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=summary]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">metadata/documentation[@type=summary]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/eml:dataset/eml:abstract/eml:descendant</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/fgdc:metadata/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:descript/fgdc:abstract</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">dcterms:description</td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Purpose===
 
'''A paragraph describing the original purpose for collecting the dataset.'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/DIF/Summary/Purpose</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/Collection/SuggestedUsage</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">METADATA &gt; COLLECTIONMETADATA &gt; CollectionAssociation &gt; CollectionAssociationContainer.CollectionUse</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:purpose/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/eml:dataset/eml:project/eml:title/eml:text</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:descript/fgdc:purpose</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#keywords_Attribute Keyword]===
 
'''A comma separated list of key words and phrases.'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Parameters/dif:Category &gt; //dif:Parameters/dif:Topic &gt; //dif:Parameters/dif:Term &gt; //dif:Parameters/dif:Variable_Level_1
 
        &gt; //dif:Parameters/dif:Variable_Level_2 &gt; //dif:Parameters/dif:Variable_Level_3 &gt; //dif:Parameters/dif: &gt;
 
                //dif:Parameters/dif:Variable_Level_3
 
      </td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/
 
                echo:Collection/echo:ScienceKeywords/echo:ScienceKeyword/echo:CategoryKeyword&gt;//echo:TopicKeyword&gt;//echo:TermKeyword&gt;//echo:VariableLevel1Keyword/echo:Value&gt;//echo:VariableLevel2Keyword/echo:Value&gt;//echo:VariableLevel3Keyword&gt;//echo:DetailedVariableKeyword
 
      </td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">METADATA &gt; COLLECTIONMETADATA &gt; DisciplineTopicParameters &gt; DisciplineTopicParametersContainer.ECSDisciplineKeyword &gt; DisciplineTopicParametersContainer.ECSParameterKeyword
 
        &gt; DisciplineTopicParametersContainer.ECSTermKeyword &gt;
 
                DisciplineTopicParametersContainer.ECSTopicKeyword
 
      </td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:descriptiveKeywords/gmd:MD_Keywords/gmd:keyword/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=keywords]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/eml:dataset/eml:keywordSet/eml:keyword/eml:text</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/fgdc:metadata/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:keywords/fgdc:theme/fgdc:themekey |/fgdc:metadata/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:keywords/fgdc:place/fgdc:placekey</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">dcterms:subject</td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#keywords_vocabulary_Attribute Keyword Vocabulary]===
 
'''If you are following a guideline for the words/phrases in your "keywords" attribute, put the name of that guideline here.'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:descriptiveKeywords/gmd:MD_Keywords/gmd:thesaurusName/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:title/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=keyword_vocabulary]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#standard_name_vocabulary_Attribute Standard Name Vocabulary]===
 
'''The name of the controlled vocabulary from which variable standard names are taken.'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:descriptiveKeywords/gmd:MD_Keywords/gmd:keyword/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:variable/attribute/@name=standard_name</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#history_Attribute Lineage]===
 
'''Provides an audit trail for modifications to the original data.'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:dataQualityInfo/gmd:DQ_DataQuality/gmd:lineage/gmd:LI_Lineage/gmd:statement/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=history]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#comment_Attribute Other Information]===
 
'''Miscellaneous information about the data.'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:citation/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:otherCitationDetails/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=comment]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/fgdc:taxoncl/fgdc:taxonrv[../fgdc:taxonrn=&#8217;Class&#8217;]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
<a name="#"></a>
 
 
==Spatial and Temporal Search==
 
This basic extent information supports spatial/temporal searches that are increasingly important as the number of map based
 
search interfaces increases. Many of the attributes included in this spiral can be calculated from the data if the file is
 
compliant with the NetCDF Climate
 
      and Forecast (CF) Metadata Convention. Describes a simple latitude, longitude, vertical and temporal bounding box. For
 
a more detailed geospatial coverage, see the suggested geospatial attributes. Further refinement of the geospatial bounding
 
box can be provided by using these units and
 
      resolution attributes. Many of these extent attributes are calculated using the CF-Conventions.
 
 
===Site===
 
'''The name or description of the physical location where the data were collected'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/fgdc:metadata/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:spdom/fgdc:descgeog</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#geospatial_lat_min_Attribute Southernmost Latitude]===
 
'''The southernmost latitude of the bounding rectangle.'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/echo:Spatial/echo:HorizontalSpatialDomain/echo:Geometry/echo:BoundingRectangle/echo:SouthBoundingCoordinate</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">METADATA &gt; COLLECTIONMETADATA &gt; Spatial &gt; SpatialDomainContainer &gt; HorizontalSpatialDomainContainer &gt; BoundingRectangle.SouthBoundingCoordinate</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:extent/gmd:EX_Extent/gmd:geographicElement/gmd:EX_GeographicBoundingBox/gmd:southBoundLatitude/gco:Decimal</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:CFMetadata/nc:attribute[@name=geospatial_lat_min]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/eml:dataset/eml:coverage/eml:geographicCoverage/eml:boundingCoordinates/eml:southBoundingCoordinate/eml:text</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/fgdc:metadata/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:spdom/fgdc:bounding/fgdc:southbc</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#geospatial_lat_max_Attribute Northernmost Latitude]===
 
'''The northernmost latitude of the bounding rectangle.'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/echo:Spatial/echo:HorizontalSpatialDomain/echo:Geometry/echo:BoundingRectangle/echo:NorthBoundingCoordinate</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">METADATA &gt; COLLECTIONMETADATA &gt; Spatial &gt; SpatialDomainContainer &gt; HorizontalSpatialDomainContainer &gt; BoundingRectangle.NorthBoundingCoordinate</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:extent/gmd:EX_Extent/gmd:geographicElement/gmd:EX_GeographicBoundingBox/gmd:northBoundLatitude/gco:Decimal</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:CFMetadata/nc:attribute[@name=geospatial_lat_max]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/eml:dataset/eml:coverage/eml:geographicCoverage/eml:boundingCoordinates/eml:northBoundingCoordinate/eml:text</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/fgdc:metadata/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:spdom/fgdc:bounding/fgdc:northbc</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Latitude Dimension Length===
 
'''The number of divisions on the latgitude axis'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:spatialRepresentationInfo/gmd:MD_GridSpatialRepresentation/gmd:axisDimensionProperties/gmd:MD_Dimension/gmd:dimensionSize/gco:Integer</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:dimension[@name=lat]/@length</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#geospatial_lat_resolution_Attribute Latitude Resolution]===
 
'''The average distance between divisions on the longitude axis'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:spatialRepresentationInfo/gmd:MD_GridSpatialRepresentation/gmd:axisDimensionProperties/gmd:MD_Dimension/gmd:resolution/gco:Measure</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:CFMetadata/nc:attribute[@name=geospatial_lat_resolution]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#geospatial_lon_min_Attribute Westernmost Longitude]===
 
'''The westernmost longitude of the bounding rectangle.'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/echo:Spatial/echo:HorizontalSpatialDomain/echo:Geometry/echo:BoundingRectangle/echo:WestBoundingCoordinate</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">METADATA &gt; COLLECTIONMETADATA &gt; Spatial &gt; SpatialDomainContainer &gt; HorizontalSpatialDomainContainer &gt; BoundingRectangle.EastBoundingCoordinate</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:extent/gmd:EX_Extent/gmd:geographicElement/gmd:EX_GeographicBoundingBox/gmd:westBoundLongitude/gco:Decimal</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:CFMetadata/nc:attribute[@name=geospatial_lon_min]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/eml:dataset/eml:coverage/eml:geographicCoverage/eml:boundingCoordinates/eml:westBoundingCoordinate/eml:text</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/fgdc:metadata/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:spdom/fgdc:bounding/fgdc:westbc</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#geospatial_lon_max_Attribute Easternmost Longitude]===
 
'''The westernmost longitude of the bounding rectangle.'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/echo:Spatial/echo:HorizontalSpatialDomain/echo:Geometry/echo:BoundingRectangle/echo:WestBoundingCoordinate</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">METADATA &gt; COLLECTIONMETADATA &gt; Spatial &gt; SpatialDomainContainer &gt; HorizontalSpatialDomainContainer &gt; BoundingRectangle.EastBoundingCoordinate</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:extent/gmd:EX_Extent/gmd:geographicElement/gmd:EX_GeographicBoundingBox/gmd:eastBoundLongitude/gco:Decimal</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:CFMetadata/nc:attribute[@name=geospatial_lon_max]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/eml:dataset/eml:coverage/eml:geographicCoverage/eml:boundingCoordinates/eml:eastBoundingCoordinate/eml:text</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/fgdc:metadata/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:spdom/fgdc:bounding/fgdc:eastbc</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Longitude Dimension Length===
 
'''The number of divisions on the longitude axis'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:spatialRepresentationInfo/gmd:MD_GridSpatialRepresentation/gmd:axisDimensionProperties/gmd:MD_Dimension/gmd:dimensionSize/gco:Integer</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:dimension[@name=lon]/@length</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#geospatial_lon_resolution_Attribute Longitude Resolution]===
 
'''The average distance between divisions on the longitude axis'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:spatialRepresentationInfo/gmd:MD_GridSpatialRepresentation/gmd:axisDimensionProperties/gmd:MD_Dimension/gmd:resolution/gco:Measure</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:CFMetadata/nc:attribute[@name=geospatial_lon_resolution]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#time_coverage_start_Attribute Start Time]===
 
'''The start of the bounding time period'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Temporal_Coverage/dif:Start_Date</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/echo:Collection/echo:Temporal/echo:RangeDateTime/echo:BeginningDateTime</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:extent/gmd:EX_Extent/gmd:temporalElement/gmd:EX_TemporalExtent/gmd:extent/gml:TimePeriod/gml:beginPosition</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:CFMetadata/nc:attribute[@name=time_coverage_start]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/eml:dataset/eml:coverage/eml:temporalCoverage/eml:rangeOfDates/eml:beginDate/eml:calendarDate/eml:text</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#time_coverage_end_Attribute End Time]===
 
'''The end of the bounding time period'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Temporal_Coverage/dif:Stop_Date</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/echo:Collection/echo:Temporal/echo:RangeDateTime/echo:EndingDateTime</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:extent/gmd:EX_Extent/gmd:temporalElement/gmd:EX_TemporalExtent/gmd:extent/gml:TimePeriod/gml:endPosition</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:CFMetadata/nc:attribute[@name=time_coverage_end]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/eml:dataset/eml:coverage/eml:temporalCoverage/eml:rangeOfDates/eml:endDate/eml:calendarDate/eml:text</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#geospatial_vertical_min_Attribute Vertical Minimum]===
 
'''The minimum height of the bounding rectangle'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Spatial_Coverage/dif:Minimum_Altitude</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:extent/gmd:EX_Extent/gmd:verticalElement/gmd:EX_VerticalExtent/gmd:minimumValue/gco:Real</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=geospatial_vertical_min]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#geospatial_vertical_max_Attribute Vertical Maximum]===
 
'''The maximum height of the bounding rectangle'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Spatial_Coverage/dif:Maximum_Altitude</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:extent/gmd:EX_Extent/gmd:verticalElement/gmd:EX_VerticalExtent/gmd:maximumValue/gco:Real</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=geospatial_vertical_max]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Vertical Dimension Length===
 
'''The number of divisions on the vertical axis'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:spatialRepresentationInfo/gmd:MD_GridSpatialRepresentation/gmd:axisDimensionProperties/gmd:MD_Dimension/gmd:dimensionSize/gco:Integer</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:dimension[@name=altitude]/@length</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Vertical Resolution===
 
'''The average distance between divisions on the vertical axis'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Data_Resolution/dif:Vertical_Resolution</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:spatialRepresentationInfo/gmd:MD_GridSpatialRepresentation/gmd:axisDimensionProperties/gmd:MD_Dimension/gmd:resolution/gco:Measure</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=geospatial_vertical_resolution]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
<a name="#"></a>
 
 
==Creator Search==
 
This group includes attributes that could support searches for people/institutions/projects that are responsible for datasets.
 
This information is also critical for the correct attribution of the people and institutions that produce datasets.
 
 
===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#creator_name_Attribute Author / Originator]===
 
'''The principal author of the resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:citation/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:citedResponsibleParty/gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty/gmd:individualName/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=creator_name]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">concat (//eml:eml/eml:dataset/eml:creator/eml:individualName/eml:givenName/eml:text,&#8217; &#8216;,//eml:eml/eml:dataset/eml:creator/eml:individualName/eml:surName/eml:text)</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/fgdc:metadata/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:citeinfo/fgdc:origin</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#instirution_Attribute Originating Organization]===
 
'''The organization responsible for creating the resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:citation/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:citedResponsibleParty/gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty/gmd:organisationName/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=institution]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/eml:dataset/eml:creator/eml:organizationName/eml:text</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/fgdc:metadata/fgdc:distinfo/fgdc:distrib/fgdc:cntinfo/fgdc:cntperp/fgdc:cntorg</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#creator_email_Attribute Author / Originator Email Address]===
 
'''The electronic mail address of the principal author of the resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Data_Set_Citation/dif:Dataset_Creator</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:citation/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:citedResponsibleParty/gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty[gmd:role/gmd:CI_RoleCode
 
        = 'author']/gmd:contactInfo/gmd:CI_Contact/gmd:address/gmd:CI_Address/gmd:electronicMailAddress/gco:CharacterString
 
      </td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=creator_email]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#creator_url_Attribute Author / Originator World Wide Web Address]===
 
'''The World Wide Web mail address of the principal author of the resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:citation/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:citedResponsibleParty/gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty/gmd:contactInfo/gmd:CI_Contact/gmd:onlineResource/gmd:CI_OnlineResource/gmd:linkage/gmd:URL</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=creator_url]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#date_created_Attribute Creation Date]===
 
'''The date the resource was created'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:citation/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:date/gmd:CI_Date/gmd:date/gco:Date</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=date_created]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#date_modified_Attribute Modification Date]===
 
'''The date the resource was modified'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:citation/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:date/gmd:CI_Date/gmd:date/gco:Date</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=date_modified]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/formats/DataDiscoveryAttConvention.html#date_issued_Attribute Issue Date]===
 
'''The date the resource was issued'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:citation/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:date/gmd:CI_Date/gmd:date/gco:Date</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=date_issued]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
<a name="#"></a>
 
 
==Online Resources==
 
All of these approaches to describing online resources include properties that make links more self-explanatory and easier
 
to use.
 
 
===[http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Online_Resources URL]===
 
'''Address of the online resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Related_URL/URL</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">echo:OnlineAccessURLs/echo:OnlineAccessURL/echo:URL</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:CI_OnlineResource/gmd:linkage/gmd:URL</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/eml:dataset/eml:distribution/eml:online/eml:url/eml:text</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/fgdc:metadata/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:citation/fgdc:citeinfo/fgdc:onlink | /fgdc:metadata/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:browse/fgdc:browsen</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Online_Resources Online Resource Description]===
 
'''A brief description of the online resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Related_URL/dif:Description</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">echo:OnlineAccessURLs/echo:OnlineAccessURL/echo:URLDescription</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:CI_OnlineResource/gmd:description/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Online_Resources Online Resource Function]===
 
'''A description of the function of the online resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:CI_OnlineResource/gmd:description/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Online_Resources Online Resource Name/Title]===
 
'''A name or title of the online resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Related_URL/dif:URL_Content_Type/dif:Type &gt; /dif:DIF/dif:Related_URL/dif:URL_Content_Type/dif:Subtype</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:CI_OnlineResource/gmd:name/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===[http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Online_Resources Format of the Online Resource]===
 
'''Identify the format of the online resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">echo:OnlineAccessURLs/echo:OnlineAccessURL/MimeType</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:CI_OnlineResource/gmd:applicationProfile/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
<a name="#"></a>
 
 
==Catalog Services for the Web (CSW) Core Queryables==
 
The Open Geospatial Consortium Catalog Services for the Web (CSW) standard defines eleven "Core Queryables" that must be supported
 
in any compliant implementation. Profiles of CSW map these queryables to concepts and xPaths for particular metadata dialects.
 
 
===Subject===
 
'''The topic of the content of the resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Parameters/dif:Category &gt; //dif:Parameters/dif:Topic &gt; //dif:Parameters/dif:Term &gt; //dif:Parameters/dif:Variable_Level_1
 
        &gt; //dif:Parameters/dif:Variable_Level_2 &gt; //dif:Parameters/dif:Variable_Level_3 &gt; //dif:Parameters/dif: &gt;
 
                //dif:Parameters/dif:Variable_Level_3
 
      </td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/
 
                echo:Collection/echo:ScienceKeywords/echo:ScienceKeyword/echo:CategoryKeyword&gt;//echo:TopicKeyword&gt;//echo:TermKeyword&gt;//echo:VariableLevel1Keyword/echo:Value&gt;//echo:VariableLevel2Keyword/echo:Value&gt;//echo:VariableLevel3Keyword&gt;//echo:DetailedVariableKeyword
 
      </td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">METADATA &gt; COLLECTIONMETADATA &gt; DisciplineTopicParameters &gt; DisciplineTopicParametersContainer.ECSDisciplineKeyword &gt; DisciplineTopicParametersContainer.ECSParameterKeyword
 
        &gt; DisciplineTopicParametersContainer.ECSTermKeyword &gt;
 
                DisciplineTopicParametersContainer.ECSTopicKeyword
 
      </td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/gmd:MD_DataIdentification/gmd:descriptiveKeywords/gmd:MD_Keywords[gmd:type='theme']/gmd:keyword/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=keywords]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/fgdc:metadata/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:keywords/fgdc:theme/fgdc:themekey |/fgdc:metadata/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:keywords/fgdc:place/fgdc:placekey</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Title===
 
'''A name given to the resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Data_Set_Citation/dif:Dataset_Title</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/echo:Collection/echo:LongName</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:citation/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:title/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/eml:dataset/eml:title/text</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/fgdc:metadata/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:citation/fgdc:citeinfo/fgdc:title</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">dcterms:title</td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Abstract===
 
'''A summary of the content of the resource.'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Summary/dif:Abstract</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/echo:Collection/echo:Description</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:abstract/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=summary]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">thredds:metadata/thredds:documentation[@type=summary]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/eml:dataset/eml:abstract/eml:descendant</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/fgdc:metadata/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:descript/fgdc:abstract</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">dcterms:description</td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Any Text===
 
'''A target for full-text search of character data types in a catalogue'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Whole resource text</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Format===
 
'''The physical or digital manifestation of the resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Distribution/dif:Distribution_Format</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/echo:Collection/echo:DataFormat</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:distributionInfo/gmd:MD_Distribution/gmd:distributor/gmd:MD_Distributor/gmd:distributionFormat/gmd:MD_Format/gmd:name</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Identifier===
 
'''A unique reference to the record within the catalogue (Metadata Identifier)'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:Entry_Id</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:fileIdentifier/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Modified===
 
'''Date on which the record was created or updated within the catalogue'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:DIF_Creation_Date</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:dateStamp/gco:Date</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Type===
 
'''The nature or genre of the content of the resource. Type can include general categories, genres or aggregation levels of content.'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:hierarchyLevel/gmd:MD_ScopeCode</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Bounding Box===
 
'''A bounding box for identifying a geographic area of interest'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Spatial_Coverage</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/echo:Collection/echo:Spatial/echo:HorizontalSpatialDomain/echo:Geometry/echo:BoundingRectangle</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/gmd:MD_DataIdentification/gmd:extent/gmd:EX_Extent/gmd:geographicElement/gmd:EX_GeographicBoundingBox</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Coordinate Reference System (CRS)===
 
'''Geographic Coordinate Reference System (Authority and ID) for the BoundingBox'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:referenceSystemInfo/gmd:MD_ReferenceSystem/gmd:referenceSystemIdentifier/gmd:RS_Identifier/gmd:code</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Association===
 
'''Complete statement of a one-to-one relationship'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:identificationInfo//gmd:aggregationInfo/gmd:MD_AggregateInformation/gmd:aggregateDataSetIdentifier/gmd:MD_Identifier/gmd:code/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
<a name="#"></a>
 
 
==Catalog Services for the Web (CSW) Core Returnable Properties==
 
The Open Geospatial Consortium Catalog Services for the Web (CSW) standard defines eleven "Core Queryables" that must be supported
 
in any compliant implementation. Profiles of CSW map these queryables to concepts and xPaths for particular metadata dialects.
 
 
===Title===
 
'''A name given to the resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Data_Set_Citation/dif:Dataset_Title</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/echo:Collection/echo:LongName</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:identificationInfo//gmd:citation/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:title/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/eml:dataset/eml:title/eml:text</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/fgdc:metadata/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:citation/fgdc:citeinfo/fgdc:title</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">dcterms:title</td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Creator===
 
'''Creator of the resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Data_Set_Citation/dif:Dataset_Creator</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:identificationInfo//gmd:citation/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:citedResponsibleParty/gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty[gmd:role/gmd:CI_RoleCode
 
        = 'author']
 
      </td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=creator_name]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Subject===
 
'''The topic of the content of the resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Parameters/dif:Category &gt; //dif:Parameters/dif:Topic &gt; //dif:Parameters/dif:Term &gt; //dif:Parameters/dif:Variable_Level_1
 
        &gt; //dif:Parameters/dif:Variable_Level_2 &gt; //dif:Parameters/dif:Variable_Level_3 &gt; //dif:Parameters/dif: &gt;
 
                //dif:Parameters/dif:Variable_Level_3
 
      </td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/echo:Collection/echo:ScienceKeywords/echo:ScienceKeyword/echo:CategoryKeyword&gt;//echo:TopicKeyword&gt;//echo:TermKeyword&gt;//echo:VariableLevel1Keyword/echo:Value&gt;//echo:VariableLevel2Keyword/echo:Value&gt;//echo:VariableLevel3Keyword&gt;//echo:DetailedVariableKeyword</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">METADATA &gt; COLLECTIONMETADATA &gt; DisciplineTopicParameters &gt; DisciplineTopicParametersContainer.ECSDisciplineKeyword &gt; DisciplineTopicParametersContainer.ECSParameterKeyword
 
        &gt; DisciplineTopicParametersContainer.ECSTermKeyword &gt;
 
                DisciplineTopicParametersContainer.ECSTopicKeyword
 
      </td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/gmd:DataIdentification/gmd:descriptiveKeywords/gmd:MD_Keywords[gmd:type='theme']/gmd:keyword/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=keywords]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Description===
 
'''A summary of the content of the resource.'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Summary/dif:Abstract</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/echo:Collection/echo:Description</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:identificationInfo//gmd:abstract/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=summary]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">thredds:metadata/thredds:documentation[@type=summary]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Publisher===
 
'''Publisher of the resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Data_Set_Citation/dif:Dataset_Publisher</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:identificationInfo//gmd:citation/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:citedResponsibleParty/gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty[gmd:role/gmd:CI_RoleCode
 
        = 'publisher']
 
      </td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Contributor===
 
'''Contributor to the resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:identificationInfo//gmd:citation/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:citedResponsibleParty/gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty[gmd:role/gmd:CI_RoleCode
 
        = 'author']
 
      </td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=creator_name]</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Date===
 
'''The date of a creation or update event of the catalogue record.'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:DIF_Creation_Date</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:dateStamp/gco:Date</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Type===
 
'''The nature or genre of the content of the resource. Type can include general categories, genres or aggregation levels of content.'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:hierarchyLevel/gmd:MD_ScopeCode</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Format===
 
'''The physical or digital manifestation of the resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Distribution/dif:Distribution_Format</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/echo:Collection/echo:DataFormat</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:distributionInfo/gmd:MD_Distribution/gmd:distributor/gmd:MD_Distributor/gmd:distributionFormat/gmd:MD_Format/gmd:name</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Identifier===
 
'''A unique reference to the record within the catalogue (Metadata Identifier)'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:Entry_Id</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:fileIdentifier/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Source===
 
'''A reference to a resource from which the present resource is derived.'''
 
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===Language===
 
'''Language of the metadata'''
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:language/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
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===Relation===
 
'''A reference to a related resource.'''
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:identificationInfo//gmd:aggregationInfo/gmd:MD_AggregateInformation</td>
 
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===Coverage===
 
'''The spatial extent or scope of the content of the resource'''
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
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  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Spatial_Coverage</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/echo:Collection/echo:Spatial/echo:HorizontalSpatialDomain/echo:Geometry/echo:BoundingRectangle</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:identificationInfo//gmd:extent/gmd:EX_Extent/gmd:geographicElement/gmd:EX_GeographicBoundingBox</td>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
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===Rights===
 
'''Information about rights held in and over the resource'''
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:identificationInfo//gmd:resourceConstraints/gmd:MD_LegalConstraints/gmd:accessConstraints/gmd:MD_RestrictionCode</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
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==Catalog Service for the Web (CSW) Additional Queryable Properties==
 
Additional queryable properties defined in the ISO Profile of CSW (Table 10)
 
 
===Revision Date===
 
'''Date of revision of the resource'''
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:identificationInfo//gmd:citation/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:date/gmd:CI_Date[gmd:dateType/gmd:CI_DateTypeCode='revision']/gmd:date/gco:Date</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
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===Alternate Title===
 
'''Alternate title of the resource'''
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
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  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:identificationInfo//gmd:citation/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:alternateTitle/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
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===Creation Date===
 
'''Date of creation of the resource'''
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:identificationInfo//gmd:citation/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:date/gmd:CI_Date[gmd:dateType/gmd:CI_DateTypeCode='creation']/gmd:date/gco:Date</td>
 
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===Publication Date===
 
'''Date of publication of the resource'''
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
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  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Data_Set_Citation/dif:Dataset_Release_Date</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:date/gmd:CI_Date[gmd:dateType/gmd:CI_DateTypeCode='publication']/gmd:date/gco:Date</td>
 
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===Organization Name===
 
'''Name of the organization providing the resource'''
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
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  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/echo:Collection/echo:Contacts/echo:Contact/echo:OrganizationName</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:identificationInfo//gmd:citation/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:citedResponsibleParty/gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty/gmd:organisationName/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
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===Has Security Constraints===
 
'''Are there any security constraints?'''
 
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      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
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  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:identificationInfo///gmd:resourceConstraints/gmd:MD_SecurityConstraints</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
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===Language===
 
'''Language of the metadata'''
 
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  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
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  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:language/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
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===Resource Identifier===
 
'''Identifier of the resource'''
 
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  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Data_Set_Citation/dif:Dataset_DOI</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:identificationInfo//gmd:citation/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:identifier/gmd:MD_Identifier/gmd:code/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Parent Identifier===
 
'''A unique identifier for a parent dataset or collection'''
 
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  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:parentIdentifier/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Keyword Type===
 
'''Methods used to group similar keywords'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Related_URL/dif:URL_Content_Type/dif:Type &gt; /dif:DIF/dif:Related_URL/dif:URL_Content_Type/dif:Subtype</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">//gmd:identificationInfo//gmd:descriptiveKeywords/gmd:MD_Keywords/gmd:type/gmd:MD_KeywordTypeCode</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
<a name="#"></a>
 
 
==Resource and Metadata Constraints==
 
Constraints on the use of the resource and metadata
 
 
===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.'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Access_Constraints</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/echo:Collection/echo:RestrictionFlag</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/gmd:MD_DataIdentification/gmd:resourceConstraints/gmd:MD_LegalConstraints/gmd:legalConstraints/gmd:MD_RestrictionCode</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Resource 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.'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Use_Constraints</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/echo:Collection/echo:RestrictionFlag</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:identificationInfo/gmd:MD_DataIdentification/gmd:resourceConstraints/gmd:MD_Constraints/gmd:useLimitation/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Metadata 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.'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:metadataConstraints/gmd:MD_LegalConstraints/gmd:legalConstraints/gmd:MD_RestrictionCode</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===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.'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:metadataConstraints/gmd:MD_Constraints/gmd:useLimitation/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
<a name="#"></a>
 
 
==Distribution Information==
 
Information about the distribution of the resource
 
 
===Media===
 
'''Media on which the resource is available'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Distribution/dif:Distribution_Media</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/echo:Collection/echo:DataFormat</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:distributionInfo/gmd:MD_Distribution/gmd:distributor/gmd:MD_Distributor/gmd:distributionFormat/gmd:MD_Format/gmd:name</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Resource Cost or Fees===
 
'''Cost associated with access to the resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Distribution/dif:Fees</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/echo:Collection/echo:Price</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:distributionInfo/gmd:MD_Distribution/gmd:distributor/gmd:MD_Distributor/gmd:distributionOrderProcess/gmd:MD_StandardOrderProcess/gmd:fees/gco:CharacterString</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
  </tr>
 
</table>
 
 
 
 
===Format===
 
'''The physical or digital manifestation of the resource'''
 
<table xmlns:cw="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/xsd/crosswalk.xsd" width="95%" border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">DIF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECHO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ECS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">ISO</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">netCDF</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">THREDDS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">OGC-SOS</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">EML</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">FGDC</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">Dryad</td>
 
  </tr>
 
  <tr>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/dif:DIF/dif:Distribution/dif:Distribution_Format</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/echo:Collection/echo:DataFormat</td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
      <td style="word-break:break-all;">/*/gmd:distributionInfo/gmd:MD_Distribution/gmd:distributor/gmd:MD_Distributor/gmd:distributionFormat/gmd:MD_Format/gmd:name</td>
 
 
       <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
       <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
       <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>
 
       <td style="word-break:break-all;"></td>

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Many documentation dialects include mechanisms for connecting people and organizations to metadata records. There are two general approaches to these connections. The first involves including the roles of the people in the names of the metadata elements. For example, the netCDF Attribute Convention for Data Discovery includes fields titled creator_name, creator_email, and creator_url. This approach makes it difficult to standardize because new standard elements must be added in order to add a new role, i.e. processor_name, processor_email, processor_URL.

The second approach centers around a generic description of a person or an organization that includes an attribute that gives the role they play with respect to the resource being documented. This approach allows additions by extending the list of roles. See [[NetCDF,_HDF,_and_ISO_Metadata] for more details on this approach.

People

Connecting people to datasets is an important role of metadata

Role

function performed by the responsible party

DIF ECHO ECS ISO netCDF THREDDS OGC-SOS EML FGDC Dryad
/dif:DIF/dif:Personnel/dif:Role /echo:Collection/echo:Contacts/echo:Contact/echo:Role //gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty/gmd:role/gmd:CI_RoleCode


Position Name

Name of the job or position in an organization

DIF ECHO ECS ISO netCDF THREDDS OGC-SOS EML FGDC Dryad
/Collection/Contacts/Contact/ContactPersons/ContactPerson/JobPosition //gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty/gmd:positionName/gco:CharacterString


First Name

First name of the individual

DIF ECHO ECS ISO netCDF THREDDS OGC-SOS EML FGDC Dryad
/dif:DIF/dif:Personnel/dif:First_Name /Collection/Contacts/Contact/ContactPersons/ContactPerson/FirstName //gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty/gmd:individualName/gco:CharacterString


Middle Name

Middle name of the individual

DIF ECHO ECS ISO netCDF THREDDS OGC-SOS EML FGDC Dryad
/dif:DIF/dif:Personnel/dif:Middle_Name /Collection/Contacts/Contact/ContactPersons/ContactPerson/MiddleName //gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty/gmd:individualName/gco:CharacterString


Last Name

Last name of the individual

DIF ECHO ECS ISO netCDF THREDDS OGC-SOS EML FGDC Dryad
/dif:DIF/dif:Personnel/dif:Last_Name /Collection/Contacts/Contact/ContactPersons/ContactPerson/LastName //gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty/gmd:individualName/gco:CharacterString


Email

Email address of the individual or organization

DIF ECHO ECS ISO netCDF THREDDS OGC-SOS EML FGDC Dryad
/dif:DIF/dif:Personnel/dif:Email /echo:Collection/echo:Contacts/echo:Contact/echo:OrganizationEmails/echo:Email //gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty/gmd:contactInfo/gmd:CI_Contact/gmd:address/gmd:CI_Address/gmd:electronicMailAddress/gco:CharacterString


Hours of Service

Time period (including time zone) when individuals can contact the organisation or individual

DIF ECHO ECS ISO netCDF THREDDS OGC-SOS EML FGDC Dryad
/echo:Collection/echo:Contacts/echo:Contact/echo:HoursOfService //gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty/gmd:contactInfo/gmd:CI_Contact/gmd:hoursOfService/gco:CharacterString


Contact Instructions

Supplemental instructions on how or when to contact the individual or organisation

DIF ECHO ECS ISO netCDF THREDDS OGC-SOS EML FGDC Dryad
/echo:Collection/echo:Contacts/echo:Contact/echo:Instructions //gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty/gmd:contactInfo/gmd:CI_Contact/gmd:contactInstructions/gco:CharacterString


Phone

Telephone numbers at which the organisation or individual may be contacted

DIF ECHO ECS ISO netCDF THREDDS OGC-SOS EML FGDC Dryad
/dif:DIF/dif:Personnel/dif:Phone /echo:Collection/echo:Contacts/echo:Contact/echo:OrganizationPhones/echo:Phone[echo:type='voice]'/echo:Number //gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty/gmd:contactInfo/gmd:CI_Contact/gmd:phone/gmd:CI_Telephone/gmd:voice/gco:CharacterString


Fax

Telephone numbers at which the organisation or individual may be contacted via facsimile (fax)

DIF ECHO ECS ISO netCDF THREDDS OGC-SOS EML FGDC Dryad
/dif:DIF/dif:Personnel/dif:Fax /echo:Collection/echo:Contacts/echo:Contact/echo:OrganizationPhones/echo:Phone[echo:type='fax]'/echo:Number //gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty/gmd:contactInfo/gmd:CI_Contact/gmd:phone/gmd:CI_Telephone/gmd:facsimile/gco:CharacterString


Address

Address line for the location

DIF ECHO ECS ISO netCDF THREDDS OGC-SOS EML FGDC Dryad
/dif:DIF/dif:Personnel/dif:Contact_Address/dif:Address /echo:Collection/echo:Contacts/echo:Contact/echo:OrganizationAddresses/echo:Address/echo:StreetAddress //gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty/gmd:contactInfo/gmd:CI_Contact/gmd:address/gmd:CI_Address/gmd:deliveryPoint/gco:CharacterString


City

City of the location

DIF ECHO ECS ISO netCDF THREDDS OGC-SOS EML FGDC Dryad
/dif:DIF/dif:Personnel/dif:Contact_Address/dif:City /echo:Collection/echo:Contacts/echo:Contact/echo:OrganizationAddresses/echo:Address/echo:City //gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty/gmd:contactInfo/gmd:CI_Contact/gmd:address/gmd:CI_Address/gmd:city/gco:CharacterString


Province or State

Province, state, or other administrative area of the location

DIF ECHO ECS ISO netCDF THREDDS OGC-SOS EML FGDC Dryad
/dif:DIF/dif:Personnel/dif:Contact_Address/dif:Province_or_State /echo:Collection/echo:Contacts/echo:Contact/echo:OrganizationAddresses/echo:Address/echo:StateProvince //gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty/gmd:contactInfo/gmd:CI_Contact/gmd:address/gmd:CI_Address/gmd:administrativeArea/gco:CharacterString


Postal_Code

Zip code or other postal code for the location

DIF ECHO ECS ISO netCDF THREDDS OGC-SOS EML FGDC Dryad
/dif:DIF/dif:Personnel/dif:Contact_Address/dif:Postal_Code /echo:Collection/echo:Contacts/echo:Contact/echo:OrganizationAddresses/echo:Address/echo:PostalCode //gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty/gmd:contactInfo/gmd:CI_Contact/gmd:address/gmd:CI_Address/gmd:postalCode/gco:CharacterString


Country

Country of the location

DIF ECHO ECS ISO netCDF THREDDS OGC-SOS EML FGDC Dryad
/dif:DIF/dif:Personnel/dif:Contact_Address/dif:Country /echo:Collection/echo:Contacts/echo:Contact/echo:OrganizationAddresses/echo:Address/echo:Country //gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty/gmd:contactInfo/gmd:CI_Contact/gmd:address/gmd:CI_Address/gmd:coountry/gco:CharacterString

Web Page

On-line information that can be used to contact the individual or organisation

DIF ECHO ECS ISO netCDF THREDDS OGC-SOS EML FGDC Dryad
//gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty/gmd:contactInfo/gmd:CI_Contact/gmd:onlineResource/gmd:CI_OnlineResource

Organization Name

Name of the organization

DIF ECHO ECS ISO netCDF THREDDS OGC-SOS EML FGDC Dryad
/echo:Collection/echo:Contacts/echo:Contact/echo:OrganizationName //gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty/gmd:organisationName/gco:CharacterString