This group describes metadata elements that shall be used in the same way in all the Conformance Classes.

This set of requirements does not comprise a Conformance Class, but it is referred to from the others Conformance Classes of the implementation of "INSPIRE dataset and service metadata based on ISO/TS 19139:2007" INSPIRE Metadata based on the corresponding technical guidance TG MD.

Note: It is in Ready for review stage, none of the tests have an official INSPIRE MIG approval.

ISO/TS 19139:2007 Geographic information Metadata XML schema implementation.

A direct dependency is another conformance class whose requirements must be met by the metadata record, too.

There is not direct dependencies for this set of requirements.

An indirect dependency is another conformance class whose requirements must be met by a related resource.

There is not indirect dependencies for this set of requirements.

Based on requirement numbering in TG MD.

This Conformance Class contains the following tests:

Some additional metadata tests are available in the conformance class 'Metadata for interoperability'. These tests are separated from above because they have a different timeline for implementation.

Empty characterstring: ISO/TS 19139 allows (if proper namespaces are available) to express any characterstring as either gco:CharacterString, gmd:Anchor or gmd:PT_FreeText.

To check an element for having an empty CharacterString, each of these representations should be considered. The PT_FreeText element can be used to supply multilingual values for a CharacterString. If only PT_FreeText is used the validator should check if a value of the string is available in the main language of the document. gmx:Anchor is typically used to reference a URI on which additional information is available. The validator could retrieve the resource at the URI in the gmx:Anchor to validate, if that content is available.

Some examples for valid string content:

  <gmd:keyword>
    <gco:CharacterString>Addresses</gco:CharacterString>
  </gmd:keyword>

or

  <gmd:keyword>
    <gmx:Anchor xlink:href="http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/en/inspire-theme/5297/">Addresses</gmx:Anchor>
  </gmd:keyword>

or

<abstract xsi:type="PT_FreeText_PropertyType">
  <gco:CharacterString>Brief narrative summary of the content of the
resource</gco:CharacterString>
  <!--== Alternative values ==-->
  <PT_FreeText>
    <textGroup>
      <LocalisedCharacterString locale="locale-fr">Résumé succint du contenu du jeu de données</LocalisedCharacterString>
    </textGroup>
    <textGroup>
      <LocalisedCharacterString locale="locale=it">
        Succinta descrizione del contenuto della risorsa
      </LocalisedCharacterString>
    </textGroup>
  </PT_FreeText>
</abstract>

The following prefixes are used to refer to the corresponding XML namespaces in all test descriptions: