UK GEMINI ver 2 updates national GI metadata

18 October 2007, 12:44pm

October 18, 2007 - A new draft verion of the UK GEMINI Standard has been published, and is available for public comment.

UK GEMINI was originally produced in 2004 by collaboration between the Association for Geographic Information (AGI), the (then) e-Government Unit (eGU) and the UK Data Archive. It was designed for use in the UK geospatial metadata service gigateway to replace the NGDF (National Geo-spatial Data Framework) metadata standard with metadata that is compatible with ISO 19115.

In 2006, a Working Group was set up under the auspices of The Association for Geographic Information (AGI) to revise the Standard. It contained representatives from the following organisations:

AGI
British Geological Survey
Cabinet Office
EDINA
Environment Agency
gigateway
Natural England
UK Hydrographic Office

The principles of the revision are as follows:

- to meet the requirements for metadata of the EU INSPIRE Directive;

- to maintain conformance to the International Standard ISO 19115 Geographic information – Metadata;

- to be consistent with the GEMINI1.0 where possible;

- to be compatible with the e-Government Metadata Standard where possible;

- to correct errors in GEMINI 1.0 and take into account experience of its use.

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Comment: Because the new standard takes into account the INSPIRE metadata requirements, this new UK standard may be of interest to a wider, on-UKGI community.

Source: AGI Newsletter with comment by Roger Longhorn, Editor, GEO:connexion International

www.agi.org.uk

Geo: International