Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

The International Standard ISO 19115-1:2014 (Geographic information – Metadata) defines more than 300 metadata elements, with most of these being listed as Optional. The ISO standard states that individual communities may develop a Profile of the International Standard. The conditionality of a select set of metadata elements may be raised but never reduced for a set of users – optional -> conditional or mandatory but never the other way. A community may also want to establish additional metadata elements that are not in the International Standard. A profile should establish domains for all metadata elements. The rules for creating profiles are described in the International Standard Geographic Information – Profiles (ISO 19106:2004). ISO 19106 stipulates particular terminology that must be used when any variation is made to a Standard, namely referring to changes as an Extension. It should be noted that there are no ‘new’ elements in the GA Metadata Profile when compared to the ISO 19115-1:2014. The obligation levels of 18 elements from ISO 19115-1:2014 have been changed, and according to ISO 19106, they form an ‘extension’ to ISO 19115-1:2014. Codelists for two elements have been extended with additional values, and two elements that are free text in the base ISO 19115-1:2014 standard have been constrained by new codelists. • This document highlights all mandatory and conditional packages/entities from ISO 19115-1:2014 necessary to fulfil GA business requirements. • All other entities and packages remain available and can be used as required to describe GA products and datasets. • The other entities and packages have to be used as defined by ISO 19115-1:2014.

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Field Value
Title Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/80d88ca4-a548-4279-9068-aa301ea48283
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        112.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        154.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        112.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        112.0,
        -44.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/geoscience-australia-community-metadata-profile-of-iso-19115-1-2014