Extensions
- Cruise Summary Reports
The National Oceanographic Data Centre's required format for reporting on cruises or field experiments at sea, formulated using tags from the ISO19115 metadata standard.
- EDMED Metadata Profile
The European Directory of Marine Environmental Datasets metadata scheme, which is a profile of ISO 19115.
- INSPIRE Metadata Regulation
A profile of ISO 19115:2003, adopted in 2007 as the common metadata standard for the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE). The other profiles of ISO 19115 in use in European Member States have been made compliant with INSPIRE.
- ISO 19115-2 - Imagery and gridded data
An extension of ISO 19115 defining the schema required for describing imagery and gridded data.
- Marine Community Profile
A profile developed in accordance with ISO 19115 rules by the Australian Ocean Data Centre that supports the documentation and discovery of marine spatial datasets.
Tools
- ANZ-MEST - Metadata Entry and Search Tool
A GeoNetwork web application for metadata management and searching, with profiles available for two extensions of ISO 19115: ANZLIC and the Marine Community Profile.
- SeaDataNet Software
A suite of tools designed by SeaDataNet to facilitate the creation, editing, and conversion of ocean and marine data and metadata. Particular tools are available for preparing ISO 19115-conformant XML metadata files for the SeaDataNet directories.
Use Cases
- Common Data Index
A web service allowing users to access the availability and geographical spreading of marine data sets managed by the SeaDataNet data centres, using metadata based on the ISO 19115 content model.
- NASA EOSDIS - The Earth Observing System Data and Information System
EOSDIS provides online FTP access to thousands of Earth system science data products described with DIF metadata.
- UK Polar Data Centre
An organisation coordinating the management of data collected by UK-funded scientists in the polar regions, using an application profile that is harmonious with both ISO 19115 and DIF.