Metadata Responsible Party ★★★★★

A contact for the person responsible for a metadata record is useful to current and future users and managers of the resource and catalogue.

Definition

Name and contact information about the organisation, role and individual who is responsible for the metadata record.

ISO Obligation

• There must be one or more [1..*] contact packages for the cited resource in the MD_Metadata package provided in a metadata record for those responsible for the metadata itself. These will be of class CI_Responsibility.

Discussion

This element refers to the party responsible for the metadata record itself and the maintenance of this metadata record. It does not refer to the party responsible for the resource the metadata describes.

This is a compound element of type CI_ResponsibleParty. At least one must be present. Recommended role value - “PointOfContact” with attached email; other roles can be added as required

Best Practice Recommendations

Therefore - in order to meet ICSM best practice, in all metadata records, at least one contact should be given for the party responsible for the metadata itself. One entry should be role code “Point of Contact”. In addition, for minimal conformity, name (of organisation preferred), positionName and electrronicMailAddress should also be populated. The use of the new partyIdentifier element added in the 2018 amendment to the standard is encouraged by all parties.

Recommended Sub-Elements

Follow the general guidelines for CI_Responsibility.

• One value of role should be “Point of Contact”.

Also Consider

• Resource Point of Contact Contact information for the recommended party to contact about the resource
• Resource Cited Responsible Party contact information for the parties otherwise responsible for aspects of the resource creation and maintenance.
• DistributionInfo Includes Distributor contact information.

Crosswalk considerations

Examples

<mdb:MD_Metadata>
...
 <mdb:contact>
  <cit:CI_Responsibility>
   <cit:role>
    <cit:CI_RoleCode 
    codeList="https://schemas.isotc211.org/19115/resources/Codelist/cat
    /codelists.xml#CI_RoleCode"
    codeListValue="pointOfContact"/>
   </cit:role>
   <cit:party>
    <cit:CI_Organisation>
     <cit:name>
      <gco:CharacterString>OpenWork Ltd</gco:CharacterString>
     </cit:name>
     <cit:contactInfo>
      <cit:CI_Contact>
       <cit:address>
        <cit:CI_Address>
         <cit:electronicMailAddress>
          <gco:CharacterString>name@email.org</gco:CharacterString>
         </cit:electronicMailAddress>
        </cit:CI_Address>
       </cit:address>
      </cit:CI_Contact>
     </cit:contactInfo>
     <cit:individual>
      <cit:CI_Individual>
       <cit:name>
        <gco:CharacterString>Metadata Bob</gco:CharacterString>
       </cit:name>
       <cit:positionName gco:nilReason="missing">
        <gco:CharacterString/>
       </cit:positionName>
      </cit:CI_Individual>
     </cit:individual>
    </cit:CI_Organisation>
   </cit:party>
   </cit:CI_Responsibility>
 </mdb:contact>
....
</mdb:MD_Metadata>

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