Standards
Links to information standards web pages.
ISO/TC 211 (Geographic Information):
Open Geospatial Consortium technical specifications (standards):
- Introduction and overview
- Some web service interface specifications of particular interest:
Some XML encoding standards of interest:
- Geography Markup Language
- GML 3.2 schema documents
- GML 3.1.1 schema documents
- GeoSciML
- GeoSciML model and schema
- An XML Schema for the Geologic Timescale
Some metadata schemas of interest:
- ISO 19115 (Dataset Metadata)
- ISO 19115 Corrigendum
- ISO 19119 (Service Metadata)
- ANZLIC Metadata
- FGDC Metadata
- ISO DTS 19139 (XML Schema)
Ontology/thesaurus/vocabulary principles and management technologies:
- Intro: "The Ontology Spectrum and Semantics Models" (Leo Orbrst)
- SKOS, W3.org SKOS, xml.com
SKOS, IBM.com - OWL, wikipedia.com
OWL, w3.org - GeoSciML Vocabulary model
- CoGeoInfo Multilingual Thesaurus of Geosciences
Resources relating to governance:
- ISO 19135 "Procedures for registration of items of geographic interest"
- ISO/IEC 11179 "Metadata registries"
- OGC Catalogue Services specification