Formal metadata information and software > CSDGM 1994 (superseded)
This document has been superseded.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.

8: Citation Information -- the recommended reference to be used for the data set.

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.

Syntax:

Citation_Information =
1{Originator}n + Publication_Date + (Publication_Time) + Title + 0{Edition}1 + 0{Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form}1 + 0{Series_Information}1 + 0{Publication_Information}1 + 0{Other_Citation_Details}1 + (1{Online_Linkage}n) + 0{Larger_Work_Citation}1
Series_Information =
Series_Name + Issue_Identification
Publication_Information =
Publication_Place + Publisher
Larger_Work_Citation =
Citation_Information

Semantics

Originator -- 8.1
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.
Type: text
Domain: "Unknown" free text
Publication Date -- 8.2
the date when the data set is published or otherwise made available for release.
Type: date
Domain: "Unknown" "Unpublished material" free date
Publication Time -- 8.3
the time of day when the data set is published or otherwise made available for release.
Type: time
Domain: "Unknown" free time
Title -- 8.4
the name by which the data set is known.
Type: text
Domain: free text
Edition -- 8.5
the version of the title.
Type: text
Domain: free text
Geospatial Data Presentation Form -- 8.6
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):
"atlas"
"diagram"
"globe"
"map"
"model"
"profile"
"remote-sensing image"
"section"
"view"
Series Information -- 8.7
the identification of the series publication of which the data set is a part. Compound.
Series Name -- 8.7.1
the name of the series publication of which the data set is a part.
Type: text
Domain: free text
Issue Identification -- 8.7.2
information identifying the issue of the series publication of which the data set is a part.
Type: text
Domain: free text
Publication Information -- 8.8
publication details for published data sets. Compound.
Publication Place -- 8.8.1
the name of the city (and state or province, and country, if needed to identify the city) where the data set was published or released.
Type: text
Domain: free text
Publisher -- 8.8.2
the name of the individual or organization that published the data set.
Type: text
Domain: free text
Other Citation Details -- 8.9
other information required to complete the citation.
Type: text
Domain: free text
Online Linkage -- 8.10
the name of an online computer resource that contains the data set. Entries should follow the Uniform Resource Locator convention of the Internet.
Type: text
Domain: free text
Larger Work Citation -- 8.11
the information identifying a larger work in which the data set is included. Compound.
Citation_Information -- (8)
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