ANZLIC Metadata Profile Related Information

Background

The ANZLIC Metadata Profile version 1.1 has been endorsed by the ANZLIC Council. A PDF version of this document is available at http://www.anzlic.org.au/metadata/.

More information about the profile is available from the OSDM web site http://www.osdm.gov.au/Metadata/default.aspx including:

• ANZLIC Metadata Guidelines,
• XML tools to help validate ANZLIC Metadata Profile XML documents, and
• XML codeLists of the ANZLIC Geographic Extent Names, Search Words and Jurisdictions,

There are several files that are relevant to this profile. They are stored in this directory. They include:

1. XSLT to transform valid ANZLIC Version 2 XML into ANZLIC Metadata Profile XML
2. Codelists:
   • Copy of ISO TC 211 gmx code lists. Note that this is not the official code list from http://www.isotc211.org/2005/resources/Codelist/gmxCodelists.xml because that list is currently invalid. However, this one is valid.
   • ANZLIC Geographic Extent Names
   • ANZLIC Search Words
   • ANZLIC Jurisdictions
   • Geoscience Australia's extension to the ISO TC 211 code list for MD_ScopeCode which is used for hierarchyLevel elements.
   • OSDM Schedule names for use by Australian Government Agencies.
3. An OASIS Catalog file that can be used to access local copies of the ISO 19139 XSDs
   • Note that you will need to edit the file locations to suit your own system.
4. XSD to validate XML document instances can be found at:
   • Geographic Information Metadata Base Schema
   • Geographic Spatial Schema
   • Geographic Temporal Schema
   • Geographic Spatial Referencing Schema
   • Geographic Common Schema
   • Geographic Metadata Schema
   • Geography Markup Language Schema
   • Xlink Schema
5. Schematron to further validate XML document instances:
   • Validates many of the ISO 19115 constraints/conditions
   • Validates codeList values against codeLists
   • Checks that there is content in the fileIdentifier
   • Validates keywords against ISO 19139 compliant Catalogue dictionaries. This was written by Rick Jelliffe and does a better job than the XSL below.
   • Validates geographic identifiers against ISO 19139 compliant Catalogue dictionary entries. This is based on Rick Jelliffe's above Schematron and does a better job than the XSL below.
6. XSLT 2.0 eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) files to further validate XML document instances:
   • Validates keywords against ISO 19139 compliant Catalogue dictionaries
   • Validates ANZLIC Geographic Extent Names
7. ANZLIC Metadata Profile XML examples:
   • shows most of the different metadata entities. Note: this XML document currently uses the gmxCodelists.xml file located at the above URL until the official XML file at ISO TC 211 is corrected.
   • Geoscience Australia's Open Day (series)
   • shows metadata for Geoscience Australias Open Day 2007 (collectionSession)
   • shows metadata for a camera (collectionHardware)
   • shows metadata for software
   • Note: There is no gaurantee that the content of these files is correct.

Your feedback about the ANZLIC Profile and Guidelines can be temporarily directed to: asdi-l@lists.anzlic.org.au until dedicated lists can be created.