17 December 2007, 11:21am
17-Dec-07 INSPIRE Draft Implementing Rules for Metadata. The relation between ISO19115 and ISO 19119 and the elements of the INSPIRE draft Implementing Rules for Metadata (v.3) have been published.
This document is informative, and not subject to the formal public consultation on the INSPIRE Implementing Rule for Metadata which ends on 21st December 2007. Nevertheless, any technical or editorial comments to this document can be sent to massimo.craglia@jrc.it and will contribute to further revisions of this document.
An additional informative document expressing the relation between ISO 15836 (Dublin Core) and the INSPIRE draft Implementing Rules for Metadata will be published in January 2008.
http://inspire.jrc.it/reports/ImplementingRules/
metadata/MD_IR_and_ISO_20071210.pdf
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