The following is a list of the broad areas of coverage that appear across the specifications represented at this meeting.
| Name (Working term) | Area of coverage | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Spatial and geographic | Information required for describing geographic information and services (e.g. ISO 19115) | ISO 19115 |
| Temporal | Information required for describing time-based characteristics of the data (e.g. the date of publication, a time stamp) | |
| Contributors | People, organisations, agents, ... | |
| Process | Description of processes, workflows, transformations, ... | |
| Provenance | (Related to process) Descriptions of the process used to create/produce/transform/publish data | PROV-O, PREMIS |
| Vocabularies/lists/classifications | Enumerated lists of terms that may be applied to content being described. | ISCO, SNOMED, ICD-9 |
| Resources | Objects being described or referenced. May include datasets, but also publications, software, code, other metadata, ... | DDI2.5 Related Publication??? |
| Datasets | Specific descriptions of datasets as primary objects | |
| Observation/Capture | Classes/objects that describe the processes by which data is created, generated, captured, transformed. (QUESTION: Is this the same as Provenance/Process?) | |
| Data | The logical structure of the data being described - variables, units of measurement, concepts, sample units and populations, records, datum(s), cells. (May or may not be a subset of datasets) | |
| Storage | The physical representation of the data (files, formats, locations, ...) | |
| Access | Who can access the data and how | |
| Administrative/core/... | Foundational classes for use in building the specification - e.g. identification, versioning, primitives | |
| Extensions | Mechanisms for extending the "core" specification to specialise/extend for a specific usage (domain, organisation, activity, ...) |