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. Includes datasets, but also publications, software, code, other metadata, ... | DDI2.5 Related Publication??? |