NOAA FGDC Metadata Standard Template with Rules

The following is the NOAA FGDC Metadata Content Standard template.

Data set descriptions may be more complex, such as for a GIS data base or a map, and the description preparer should refer to the Metadata Standard Greenbook "Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata Workbook March 24, 1995" for more information. There is also a NOAA NOS Metadata entry PC software "Toolkit" that allows complete entry of all of the fields in the standard. Contact the NOAA Directory Services Team at 301-713-0572 or the NOAA Environmental Information Services Data Directory Office. 

 
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#   NOAA FGDC Metadata Standard Format Template
#
#   This associative array holds the standard template that NOAA
#   uses for FGDC dataset descriptions.  The first element (key)
#   of each pair is the FGDC paragraph number (referenced to the
#   "Green Book"), and the second element of each pair (argument)
#   is the FGDC paragraph heading, preceded by a two-character
#   code indicating the 'optionality' and 'repeatability' of the
#   element, and then by one or more spaces indicating the level
#   of indentation of the element.  The presence of a colon at the
#   end of the second element indicates that a value should be
#   appended; headings without colons are used only to provide
#   context for the headings below.
#
#   For the 'optionality' character:
#      '*' indicates "mandatory for NOAA descriptions,"
#      '@' indicates "mandatory if applicable," and
#      '?' indicates "optional,"
#      'A' (any letter) indicates that at least one of the
#          headings with this optionality letter must be included.
#
#   For the 'repeatability' character:
#      '.' indicates "one occurrence only,"
#      '+' indicates "may be repeated indefinitely."
#
#   Note that both optionality and repeatability are relative to
#   their respective superior headings.  Thus, '1.1.8.7.1  Series
#   Name: ...' and '1.1.8.7.2  Issue Identification: ...' are
 
#   mandatory only if '1.1.8.7  Series Information' is present.
#   '1.1.8.1  Originator: ...' may be repeated under '1.1  Citation'
#   even though '1.1  Citation' can appear only once in a description.
#   Conversely, '1.6.1.1  Theme Keyword Thesaurus: ...' can appear
#   only once for each '1.6.1  Theme' heading, but the entire
#   '1.6.1  Theme' section may be repeated (presumably citing a
#   different thesaurus for each occurrence) several times.
#
 
 
  *.   1     Identification Information
  *.   1.1      Citation
  *+   1.1.8.1     Originator:
  *.   1.1.8.2     Publication Date:
  *.   1.1.8.4     Title:
  @.   1.1.8.5     Edition:
  @.   1.1.8.6     Geospatial Data Presentation Form:
  @.   1.1.8.7     Series Information
  *.   1.1.8.7.1      Series Name:
  *.   1.1.8.7.2      Issue Identification:
  @.   1.1.8.8     Publication Information
  *.   1.1.8.8.1      Publication Place:
  *.   1.1.8.8.2      Publisher:
  ?.   1.1.8.10    Online Linkage:
  *.   1.2      Description
  *.   1.2.1       Abstract:
  *.   1.2.2       Purpose:
  ?.   1.2.3       Supplemental Information     # ":" is optional.
  ?.   1.2.4	      NOAA Supplemental Information 			 # New.
  ?.   1.2.4.1        Entry ID:                     			 # New.
  ?+   1.2.4.2        Sensor Name:                  			 # New.
  ?+   1.2.4.3        Source Name:                  			 # New.
  ?+   1.2.4.4        Campaign or Project:          			 # New.
  ?.   1.2.4.5        Originating Center:          			 	 # New.
  ?+   1.2.4.6        Storage Medium:               			 # New.
  ?.   1.2.4.7        Reference:                    			 # New.
  ?.   1.2.4.8        NEDRES Specific Information   			 # New.
  ?.   1.2.4.8.1         NEDRES..GC-GEOGRAPHIC CODES:            # New.
  ?.   1.2.4.8.2         NEDRES..LR-LENGTH OF RECORD:            # New.
  ?.   1.2.4.8.3         NEDRES..AN-ACCESSION NUMBER:            # New.
  ?.   1.2.4.8.4         NEDRES..CC-CATEGORY CODES:              # New.
  ?.   1.2.4.8.5         NEDRES..AV-AVAILABILITY CONDITIONS:     # New.
  ?.   1.2.4.8.6         NEDRES..PR-PROGRAM SPONSOR, CONTRACT, PROJECT, OR EXPERIMENT NAME:      # New.
  ?.   1.2.4.8.7         NEDRES..PU-PUBLICATIONS:                # New.
  ?.   1.2.4.8.8         NEDRES..DC-DATA COLLECTION DESCRIPTION: # New.
  ?.   1.2.4.8.9         NEDRES..DD-DATA CENTER PROCESSING DESCRIPTION:      # New.
  ?.   1.2.4.8.10        NEDRES..DE-ADDITIONAL DATA DESCRIPTORS: # New.
  ?.   1.2.4.8.11        NEDRES..PO-PROCESSING/COLLECTING ORGANIZATION:      # New.
  ?.   1.2.4.8.12        NEDRES..DT-DATE ENTERED/UPDATED:        # New.
  ?.   1.2.4.8.13        NEDRES..RR-RELATED RECORDS:             # New.
  ?.   1.2.4.8.14        NEDRES..GL-GRID LOCATORS:               # New.
  ?.   1.2.4.9        NOAAServer URLs                            # New.
  ?.   1.2.4.9.1         More Information:                       # New.
  ?.   1.2.4.9.2         Preview:                                # New.
  ?.   1.2.4.9.3         Obtain:                                 # New.
  *.   1.3      Time Period of Content
  *.   1.3.1       Currentness Reference:
  *.   1.3.9.3     Range of Dates/Times
  *.   1.3.9.3.1      Beginning Date:
  ?.   1.3.9.3.2      Beginning Time:
  *.   1.3.9.3.3      Ending Date:
  ?.   1.3.9.3.4      Ending Time:
  *.   1.4      Status
  *.   1.4.1       Progress:
  *.   1.4.2       Maintenance and Update Frequency:
  *.   1.5      Spatial Domain
  *+   1.5.1       Bounding Coordinates
  *.   1.5.1.1        West Bounding Coordinate:
  *.   1.5.1.2        East Bounding Coordinate:
  *.   1.5.1.3        North Bounding Coordinate:
  *.   1.5.1.4        South Bounding Coordinate:
  *.   1.6      Keywords
  *+   1.6.1       Theme:
  *.   1.6.1.1        Theme Keyword Thesaurus:
  *+   1.6.1.2        Theme Keyword:
  ?+   1.6.2       Place
  *.   1.6.2.1        Place Keyword Thesaurus:
  *+   1.6.2.2        Place Keyword:
  ?+   1.6.3       Stratum
  *.   1.6.3.1        Stratum Keyword Thesaurus:
  *+   1.6.3.2        Stratum Keyword:
  ?+   1.6.4       Temporal
  *.   1.6.4.1        Temporal Keyword Thesaurus:
  *+   1.6.4.2        Temporal Keyword:
  *.   1.7      Access Constraints:
  *.   1.8      Use Constraints:
  ?.  1.9      Point of Contact:    # "Investigator" or "Technical Contact".
  A.   1.9.10.1    Contact Person Primary
  *.   1.9.10.1.1     Contact Person:
  ?.   1.9.10.1.2     Contact Organization:
  A.   1.9.10.2    Contact Organization Primary
  *.   1.9.10.2.1     Contact Organization:
  ?.   1.9.10.2.2     Contact Person:
  ?.   1.9.10.3    Contact Position:
  *+   1.9.10.4    Contact Address
  *.   1.9.10.4.1     Address Type:
  @+   1.9.10.4.2     Address:
  *.   1.9.10.4.3     City:
  *.   1.9.10.4.4     State or Province:
  *.   1.9.10.4.5     Postal Code:
  ?.   1.9.10.4.6     Country:
  *+   1.9.10.5    Contact Voice Telephone:
  ?+   1.9.10.6    Contact TDD/TTY Telephone:
  ?+   1.9.10.7    Contact Facsimile Telephone:
  ?+   1.9.10.8    Contact Electronic Mail Address:
 
  @.   2     Data Quality Information
  *.   2.2      Logical Consistency Report:
  *.   2.3      Completeness Report:
  *.   2.5      Lineage
  *+   2.5.2       Process Step
  *.   2.5.2.1        Process Description:
  *.   2.5.2.3        Process Date:

  @.   4     Spatial Reference Information
  @.   4.1      Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
  *.   4.1.1       Geographic
  *.   4.1.1.1        Latitude Resolution:
  *.   4.1.1.2        Longitude Resolution:
  *.   4.1.1.3        Geographic Coordinate Units:
  @.   4.2      Vertical Coordinate System Definition
  @.   4.2.1       Altitude System Definition
  *.   4.2.1.1        Altitude Datum Name:
  *+   4.2.1.2        Altitude Resolution:
  *.   4.2.1.3        Altitude Distance Units:
  *.   4.2.1.4        Altitude Encoding Method:
  @.   4.2.2       Depth System Definition
  *.   4.2.2.1        Depth Datum Name:
  *+   4.2.2.2        Depth Resolution:
  *.   4.2.2.3        Depth Distance Units:
  *.   4.2.2.4        Depth Encoding Method:

  @+   6     Distribution Information
  *.   6.1      Distributor
  *.   6.1.10.2    Contact Organization Primary
  *.   6.1.10.2.1     Contact Organization:
  ?.   6.1.10.2.2     Contact Person:
  ?.   6.1.10.3    Contact Position:
  *+   6.1.10.4    Contact Address
  *.   6.1.10.4.1     Address Type:
  @+   6.1.10.4.2     Address:
  *.   6.1.10.4.3     City:
  *.   6.1.10.4.4     State or Province:
  *.   6.1.10.4.5     Postal Code:
  ?.   6.1.10.4.6     Country:
  *+   6.1.10.5    Contact Voice Telephone:
  ?+   6.1.10.6    Contact TDD/TTY Telephone:
  ?+   6.1.10.7    Contact Facsimile Telephone:
  ?+   6.1.10.8    Contact Electronic Mail Address:
  @.   6.2      Resource Description:
  *.   6.3      Distribution Liability:
  @+   6.4      Standard Order Process
  B.   6.4.1       Non-digital Form:
  B+   6.4.2       Digital Form
  *.   6.4.2.1        Digital Transfer Information
  *.   6.4.2.1.1         Format Name:
  ?.   6.4.2.1.7         Transfer Size:
  *+   6.4.2.2        Digital Transfer Option
  C.   6.4.2.2.1         Online Option
  *+   6.4.2.2.1.1          Computer Contact Information
  *.   6.4.2.2.1.1.1           Network Address:
  *+   6.4.2.2.1.1.1.1            Network Resource Name:
  C.   6.4.2.2.2         Offline Option
  *.   6.4.2.2.2.1          Offline Media:
  @.   6.4.2.2.2.2          Recording Capacity
  *+   6.4.2.2.2.2.1           Recording Density:
  *.   6.4.2.2.2.2.2           Recording Density Units:
  *+   6.4.2.2.2.3          Recording Format:
  @.   6.4.2.2.2.4          Compatibility Information:
  *.   6.4.3       Fees:

  *.   7     Metadata Reference Information
  *.   7.1      Metadata Date:
  ?.   7.2      Metadata Review Date:
  ?.   7.3      Metadata Future Review Date:
  *.   7.4      Metadata Contact
  *.   7.4.10.2    Contact Organization Primary
  *.   7.4.10.2.1     Contact Organization:
  ?.   7.4.10.2.2     Contact Person:
  ?.   7.4.10.3    Contact Position:
  *+   7.4.10.4    Contact Address
  *.   7.4.10.4.1     Address Type:
  @+   7.4.10.4.2     Address:
  *.   7.4.10.4.3     City:
  *.   7.4.10.4.4     State or Province:
  *.   7.4.10.4.5     Postal Code:
  ?.   7.4.10.4.6     Country:
  *+   7.4.10.5    Contact Voice Telephone:
  ?+   7.4.10.6    Contact TDD/TTY Telephone:
  ?+   7.4.10.7    Contact Facsimile Telephone:
  ?+   7.4.10.8    Contact Electronic Mail Address:
  *.   7.5      Metadata Standard Name:
  *.   7.6      Metadata Standard Version:

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This page was created by Peter Grimm on May 8, 1997.