This document has been superseded. Everyone should refer instead to the
Content Standard for
Digital Geospatial Metadata, officially known as FGDC-STD-001-1998,
dated June 1998, at the web site of the Federal Geographic Data Committee.
This section provides a means of stating the citation of a data set, and
is used by other sections of the metadata standard. This section is never
used alone.
the name of an organization or individual that developed the data set. If the name of editors or compilers are provided, the name must be followed by "(ed.)" or "(comp.)" respectively.
the mode in which the geospatial data is represented.
Type: text
Domain: (the domain is from pp. 88-91 in
Anglo-American Committee on Cataloguing of Cartographic Materials, 1982, Cartographic materials: A manual of interpretation for AACR2: Chicago, American Library Association):