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Where are Contacts used in the CMR?

Metadata serves an essential function in connecting users to people and organizations to help them access, use, and understand data. The ESDIS Common Metadata Repository (CMR) recognizes the importance of this type of information and includes two related elements in the Unified Metadata Model (UMM) Common Profile: Responsibility and Party. As elements in the Common Profile, these elements are included in all other UMM Profiles.

The Responsibility element broadly defines responsibilities related to data resources using the position of the element in the metadata model hierarchy. The UMM-Common Profile defines five responsibilities: Metadata Contact, Resource Author / Originator, Point of Contact, Distributor, and Processor. Each of these responsibilities can have multiple people or organizations (termed parties) associated with it. A RoleCode that is chosen from the standard ISO Codelist describes details of the roles of those parties.

The Tables below shows how CMR metadata collections document contact information.   The following contact types are considered Select the tabs at the top of the sheet to see results for: Metadata Contact, Point of Contact, Resource Contact, Distributor Contact and Processor. 

Table 1:

Contact Information Exists in the CMR (Items, Elements and Attributes)

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