BAS Metadata Standards
This website documents the metadata standards used by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), and the UK Polar Data Centre (UK-PDC), for producing discovery level metadata.
Note
If you have been asked to provide metadata to the PDC as part of a data deposit, please see the Creating quality metadata for research data page on the BAS website instead.
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To discover BAS / UK PDC data, please see the BAS Data Catalogue.
Overview
Metadata standards and profiles
| Name | Type | Based On | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISO 19115 | Standard (Abstract) | - | Conceptual model for describing geographic information |
| ISO 19115-2 | Standard (Abstract, Extension) | ISO 19115 | Conceptual model extensions for acquisition and processing related concepts |
| ISO 19139 | Standard (Encoding) | ISO 19115 | Encoding of ISO 19115:2003 implemented using XML |
| ISO 19139-2 | Standard (Encoding, Extension) | ISO 19115-2 | ISO 19115-2:2009 implemented using XML |
| MAGIC Discovery (v1) | Profile | ISO 19115-2 | Minimum metadata for MAGIC discovery records |
| MAGIC Discovery (v2) | Profile | ISO 19115-2 | Minimum metadata for MAGIC discovery records |
Note
Standards used to exchange route information, for use in Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS), can be found on the previous Metadata Standards website.