Interim Collection Comparison Report for Big Earth Data Initiative
Metadata Source: CMR Metadata Collections
Metadata Dialect: ISO 19115-2
Evaluation Target: UMM-Collection metadata profile
The Unified Metadata Model Collection (UMM-Collection) profile describes documentation concepts that are considered important for collection level metadata. The profile is includes three documentation levels (Required, Recommended and Optional).
Metadata Collection
Overview
We examined over 15,000 metadata records from 26 collections extracted from the Common Metadata Repository (CMR) during April 2016. The links below connect to tables in google sheets which provide the average number of occurrences of UMM-Collection elements in each of these collections. A value of 1 or more typically (although not necessarily) indicates that the element is included one or more times in each record in a collection. A value < 1.0 is typically the percentage of records in a collection that include the metadata element. Cells with pink backgrounds indicate values of 0, meaning the element is completely missing from the collection.
The table below shows how CMR metadata collections document contact information. The following contact types are considered: Metadata Contact, Point of Contact, Resource Contact, Distributor Contact and Processor.
Table 1: Contact Information in the CMR
Observations
The table below shows where Identifiers are used in CMR metadata collections. Identifiers enable specific metadata concepts such platforms, instruments, Sensors, etc to be unambiguously identified.
Table 1: Identifiers in the CMR
Observations