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Commission Regulation (EC) No 1205/2008 of 3 December 2008 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards metadata (Text with EEA relevance)

EU Regulation No 1205/2008 · Adopted 3 December 2008 · Extends to United Kingdom

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Commission Regulation (EC) No 1205/2008

of 3 December 2008

implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards metadata

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THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (Inspire)f1, and in particular Article 5(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Directive 2007/2/EC lays down general rules for the establishment of the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community. Since, for the proper functioning of that infrastructure, it is necessary for a user to be able to find spatial data sets and services and to establish whether they may be used and for what purpose, Member States should provide descriptions in the form of metadata for those spatial data sets and services. Since such metadata should be compatible and usable in a Community and trans-boundary context, it is necessary to lay down rules concerning the metadata used to describe the spatial data sets and services corresponding to the themes listed in Annexes I, II and III to Directive 2007/2/EC.

(2)

The definition of a set of metadata elements is necessary in order to allow identification of the information resource for which metadata is created, its classification and identification of its geographic location and temporal reference, quality and validity, conformity with implementing rules on the interoperability of spatial data sets and services, constraints related to access and use, and organisation responsible for the resource. Metadata elements related to the metadata record itself are also necessary to monitor that the metadata created are kept up to date, and for identifying the organisation responsible for the creation and maintenance of the metadata. This is the minimum set of metadata elements necessary to comply with Directive 2007/2/EC and does not preclude the possibility for organisations to document the information resources more extensively with additional elements derived from international standards or working practices in their community of interest. Nor does it preclude the possibility to adopt guidelines established and kept up to date by the Commission, in particular when it is necessary to ensure the interoperability of metadata.

(3)

Instructions are necessary for the validation of metadata in accordance with Directive 2007/2/EC with regard to the conditions and expected multiplicity of each metadata element, that is to say, whether values for each element are always to be expected in the metadata record, can occur only once, or can occur more than once.

(4)

The value domain of each metadata element is necessary to ensure interoperability of metadata in a multilingual context and that value domain should be able to take the form of free text, dates, codes derived from international standards, such as language codes, keywords derived from controlled lists or thesauri, or character strings.

(5)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee established by Article 22 of Directive 2007/2/EC,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

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Editorial notes

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Deleted by Corrigendum to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1205/2008 of 3 December 2008 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards metadata (Official Journal of the European Union L 326 of 4 December 2008).

Footnotes

f1

OJ L 108, 25.4.2007, p. 1.

Contents

  1. 1Subject matter
  2. 2Definitions
  3. 3Creation and maintenance of metadata
  4. 4Entry into force Repealed
  5. Signature
  6. Annex 1SPATIAL DATA THEMES CORRESPONDING WITH THE THEMES SET OUT IN ANNEX I TO DIRECTIVE 2007/2/EC (IMMEDIATELY BEFORE EXIT DAY)
  7. Annex 2SPATIAL DATA THEMES CORRESPONDING WITH THE THEMES SET OUT IN ANNEX II TO DIRECTIVE 2007/2/EC (IMMEDIATELY BEFORE EXIT DAY)
  8. Annex 3SPATIAL DATA THEMES CORRESPONDING WITH THE THEMES SET OUT IN ANNEX III TO DIRECTIVE 2007/2/EC (IMMEDIATELY BEFORE EXIT DAY)
  9. Annex 4: METADATA IMPLEMENTING RULES
  10. Interpretation
  11. 1Division 1
  12. 2Division 2
  13. Metadata elements
  14. 1IDENTIFICATION
  15. 1.1Resource title
  16. 1.2Resource abstract
  17. 1.3Resource type
  18. 1.4Resource locator
  19. 1.5Unique resource identifier
  20. 1.6Coupled resource
  21. 1.7Resource language
  22. CLASSIFICATION OF SPATIAL DATA AND SERVICES
  23. 2.1Topic category
  24. 2.2Spatial data service type
  25. 3KEYWORD
  26. 3.1Keyword value
  27. 3.2Originating controlled vocabulary
  28. 4GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION
  29. 4.1Geographic bounding box
  30. 5TEMPORAL REFERENCE
  31. 5.1Temporal extent
  32. 5.2Date of publication
  33. 5.3Date of last revision
  34. 5.4Date of creation
  35. 6QUALITY AND VALIDITY
  36. 6.1Lineage
  37. 6.2Spatial resolution
  38. 7CONFORMITY
  39. 7.1Specification
  40. 7.2Degree
  41. 8CONSTRAINT RELATED TO ACCESS AND USE
  42. 8.1Conditions applying to access and use
  43. 8.2Limitations on public access
  44. 9ORGANISATIONS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, MANAGEMENT, MAINTENANCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF SPATIAL DATA SETS AND SERVICES
  45. 9.1Responsible party
  46. 9.2Responsible party role
  47. 10METADATA ON METADATA
  48. 10.1Metadata point of contact
  49. 10.2Metadata date
  50. 10.3Metadata language
  51. PART CInstructions on multiplicity and conditions of the metadata elements
  52. PART DValue domains
  53. RESOURCE TYPE
  54. 1.1Division 1.1
  55. 1.2Division 1.2
  56. 1.3Division 1.3
  57. TOPIC CATEGORIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH EN ISO 19115
  58. 2.1Farming (farming)
  59. 2.2Biota (biota)
  60. 2.3Boundaries (boundaries)
  61. 2.4Climatology / Meteorology / Atmosphere (climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere)
  62. 2.5Economy (economy)
  63. 2.6Elevation (elevation)
  64. 2.7Environment (environment)
  65. 2.8Geoscientific Information (geoscientificInformation)
  66. 2.9Health (health)
  67. 2.10Imagery / Base Maps / Earth Cover (imageryBaseMapsEarthCover)
  68. 2.11Intelligence / Military (intelligenceMilitary)
  69. 2.12Inland Waters (inlandWaters)
  70. 2.13Location (location)
  71. 2.14Oceans (oceans)
  72. 2.15Planning / Cadastre (planningCadastre)
  73. 2.16Society (society)
  74. 2.17Structure (structure)
  75. 2.18Transportation (transportation)
  76. 2.19Utilities / Communication (utilitiesCommunication)
  77. SPATIAL DATA SERVICE TYPE
  78. 3.1Discovery Service (discovery)
  79. 3.2View Service (view)
  80. 3.3Download Service (download)
  81. 3.4Transformation Service (transformation)
  82. 3.5Invoke Spatial Data Service (invoke)
  83. 3.6Division 3.6
  84. 4CLASSIFICATION OF SPATIAL DATA SERVICES
  85. 100Geographic human interaction services (humanInteractionService)
  86. 200Geographic model/information management service (infoManagementService)
  87. 300Geographic workflow/task management services (taskManagementService)
  88. 400Geographic processing services – spatial (spatialProcessingService)
  89. 500Geographic processing services – thematic (thematicProcessingService)
  90. 600Geographic processing services – temporal (temporalProcessingService)
  91. 700Geographic processing services – metadata (metadataProcessingService)
  92. 800Geographic communication services (comService)
  93. DEGREE OF CONFORMITY
  94. 5.1Conformant (conformant)
  95. 5.2Not Conformant (notConformant)
  96. 5.3Not evaluated (notEvaluated)
  97. RESPONSIBLE PARTY ROLE
  98. 6.1Resource Provider (resourceProvider)
  99. 6.2Custodian (custodian)
  100. 6.3Owner (owner)
  101. 6.4User (user)
  102. 6.5Distributor (distributor)
  103. 6.6Originator (originator)
  104. 6.7Point of Contact (pointOfContact)
  105. 6.8Principal Investigator (principalInvestigator)
  106. 6.9Processor (processor)
  107. 6.10Publisher (publisher)
  108. 6.11Author (author)