Content standards for digital geospatial metadata -- FGDC
8: Citation Information -- the recommended reference to be used for the data set.
This section provides a means of stating the citation of a data set, and
is used by other sections of the metadata standard. This section is never
used alone.
Syntax:
- Citation_Information =
- 1{Originator}n + Publication_Date + (Publication_Time) + Title + 0{Edition}1 + 0{Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form}1 + 0{Series_Information}1 + 0{Publication_Information}1 + 0{Other_Citation_Details}1 + (1{Online_Linkage}n) + 0{Larger_Work_Citation}1
- Series_Information =
- Series_Name + Issue_Identification
- Publication_Information =
- Publication_Place + Publisher
- Larger_Work_Citation =
- Citation_Information
Semantics
- Originator --
8.1
- the name of an organization or individual that developed the data set. If the name of editors or compilers are provided, the name must be followed by "(ed.)" or "(comp.)" respectively.
- Type: text
- Domain: "Unknown" free text
- Publication Date --
8.2
- the date when the data set is published or otherwise made available for release.
- Type: date
- Domain: "Unknown" "Unpublished material" free date
- Publication Time --
8.3
- the time of day when the data set is published or otherwise made available for release.
- Type: time
- Domain: "Unknown" free time
- Title --
8.4
- the name by which the data set is known.
- Type: text
- Domain: free text
- Edition --
8.5
- the version of the title.
- Type: text
- Domain: free text
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form --
8.6
- the mode in which the geospatial data is represented.
- Type: text
- Domain: (the domain is from pp. 88-91 in
- Anglo-American Committee on Cataloguing of Cartographic Materials, 1982, Cartographic materials: A manual of interpretation for AACR2: Chicago, American Library Association):
- "atlas"
- "diagram"
- "globe"
- "map"
- "model"
- "profile"
- "remote-sensing image"
- "section"
- "view"
- Series Information --
8.7
- the identification of the series publication of which the data set is a part.
Compound.
- Series Name --
8.7.1
- the name of the series publication of which the data set is a part.
- Type: text
- Domain: free text
- Issue Identification --
8.7.2
- information identifying the issue of the series publication of which the data set is a part.
- Type: text
- Domain: free text
- Publication Information --
8.8
- publication details for published data sets.
Compound.
- Publication Place --
8.8.1
- the name of the city (and state or province, and country, if needed to identify the city) where the data set was published or released.
- Type: text
- Domain: free text
- Publisher --
8.8.2
- the name of the individual or organization that published the data set.
- Type: text
- Domain: free text
- Other Citation Details --
8.9
- other information required to complete the citation.
- Type: text
- Domain: free text
- Online Linkage --
8.10
- the name of an online computer resource that contains the data set. Entries should follow the Uniform Resource Locator convention of the Internet.
- Type: text
- Domain: free text
- Larger Work Citation --
8.11
- the information identifying a larger work in which the data set is included.
Compound.
Citation_Information -- (8)
June 8, 1994