BAS Metadata Standards

This website documents the metadata standards used by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), and the UK Polar Data Centre (PDC), for producing discovery level metadata.

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.

If you would like to access BAS / UK PDC discovery metadata, please see the BAS Data Catalogue.

Overview

This website is intended for use by data providers within BAS to:

• improve the consistency and alignment of metadata authoring within BAS

• improve our adherence with metadata standards, through better guidance and tooling

It forms part of a wider improvement effort within BAS to unify the discovery of information through a combined and improved data catalogue.

This website previously provided additional resources such as validation schemas. These have been moved to a new domain: metadata-resources.data.bas.ac.uk.

Metadata standards and profiles

Standards and profiles currently used by BAS and the UK PDC for discovery metadata:

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 using XML
ISO 19139-2	Standard (Encoding, Extension)	ISO 19115-2	ISO 19115-2:2009 using XML
MAGIC Discovery (v1)	Profile	ISO 19115-2	Minimum metadata for MAGIC discovery records

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.