Analysis of technical specifications

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, ...)

Analysis of technical specifications

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