GCube Object Metadata

This page is intended to provide its users with a detailed list of metadata-related conventions and policies governing the production of metadata associated with these objects.

Metadata can be produced according to diverse metadata formats / schema. Thus for each Object type, in the following it is reported a brief description of the metadata associated with it in diverse schema.

AquaMaps Objects

These objects ...

Conceptual schema

• who produces the object, who publishes the object;
• how the object has been produced;
• what the object is about;

ISO 19115 Metadata

MD_Metadata section

• hierarchyLevel: dataset
• language: English
• Contacts: three roles are envisaged, i.e. author, publisher and resourceProvider;
  • author: the end user that has created the object;
  • publisher: the iMarine Consortium;
    • individualName: iMarine Consortium;
    • organisationName: iMarine.eu;
    • positionName: N/A;
    • contactInfo.onlineResource.linkage: info@i-marine.eu | support@imarine.research-infrastructures.eu;
  • resourceProvider: the iMarine Consortium; ...

MD_DataIdentification section

• title: <species name> Species Distribution Map
• abstract:

  This <species name> Species Distribution Map has been produced by the AquaMaps methodology .

  In particular, it has been produced by relying on the iMarine (www.i-marine.eu) facilities supporting Species Distribution Maps production implementing this methodology. This map has been produced by using <report here details on the dataset and algorithm>.

• purpose:

  The aim of this <species name> Species Distribution Map is to provide its users with a model-based map displaying a prediction of species distributions based on occurrence records.

• descriptiveKeywords.keyword: AquaMaps; Species Distribution Map; <species name>;
• language: English
• extent: ...

MD_Constraints section

• useLimitation:
• accessConstraints: ???
• useConstraints: ???

MD_Distribution section: list ALL the web-based protocols for accessing this map including WCS, WFS, WMS;

DQ_DataQuality section

• scope: dataset
• lineage.statement:

  This map was obtained by the iMarine (www.i-marine.eu) facilities supporting Species Distribution Maps production.

Original input data had been obtained ... Original methodology had been developed by ...

OAI-PMH Tree Objects

These objects stem from the harvesting of resources from a data provider by relying on the OAI-PMH protocol and their representation in Tree objects.

A detailed description of these objects is available at this page.

Species Data Discovery Tree Objects

These objects stem from the materialisation of data objects that can be retrieved via the Species Product Discovery service and their representation in Tree objects.

A detailed description of these objects is available at this page.

== Time Series Objects ==