####Canada Metadata
Where to Find Data
Where to find: data.gc.ca
Licensing: Open Government Licence - Canada
Contact: Mark Levene, Allanah Hilt
Latest metadata from: 30/05/2013
Metadata Details
| Concept | Description | Front-end (human-readable) | National metadata schema | Back-end machine-readable | Required | Data Type | Format: pattern | Cardinality | Usage Notes |
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- Contact information | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1.1 Person | Contact person’s name for the asset. | Contact Name | person | maintainer | Yes | See Usage Notes | See Usage Notes | (1,1) | Name should be formatted as Last, First | 1.2 Contact Email - Publisher | The electronic mail address of the responsible organization or individual | (=Email) | electronicMailAddress | author_email | YES | URL | - | (1,1) | - | 1.2 Contact Email - Dataset | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1.3 Organisation (Owner)| An entity responsible for making the resource available | Publisher | publisher | owner_org | Yes | Text, based on encoding scheme | See Usage Notes | (1,1) | Controlled Vocabulary - Government of Canada Registry of Applied Titles | 1.4 Publisher | An entity responsible for making the resource available | Publisher | publisher | owner_org | Yes | Text, based on encoding scheme | - | (1,1) |Controlled Vocabulary - Government of Canada Registry of Applied Titles| 1.5 Author| An entity responsible for making the resource available | Publisher | publisher | owner_org | Yes | Text, based on encoding scheme | - | (1,1) | Controlled Vocabulary - Government of Canada Registry of Applied Titles| 1.6 Author Email| The electronic mail address of the responsible organization or individual | (=Email) | electronicMailAddress | author_email | YES | URL | - | (1,1) | - | 1.7 Maintainer | The electronic mail address of the responsible organization or individual | (=Email) | electronicMailAddress | author_email | YES | URL | - | (1,1) | - | 1.8 Maintainer Email | The electronic mail address of the responsible organization or individual | (=Email) | electronicMailAddress | author_email | YES | URL | - | (1,1) | - |
- Dataset Identification | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2.1 Unique Identifier | A string which uniquely identifies the metadata file | File Identifier | fileIdentifier | id | Yes | See Usage Notes | Characters should be alphanumeric. | (1,1) | This field allows third parties to maintain a consistent record for datasets even if title or URLs are updated. | 2.2 Release Date | Date of formal instance (e.g. publication) of the resource which includes the date when the resource is approvded for publication on the web. | Date Published | issued | date_published | Yes | date | "YYYY-MM-DD See Usage Notes" | (1,1) |ISO 8601 Date and Time Formats - W3C | 2.2.R Release Date| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2.3 Modified | The date in which the resource was modified | Date Modified | modified | modified | No | date | "YYYY-MM-DD See Usage Notes" | (0,1) | ISO 8601 Date and Time Formats - W3C | 2.3.R Modified | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2.4 Last Updated| The date in which the resource was modified | Date Modified | modified | modified | If applicable | date | "YYYY-MM-DD See Usage Notes" | (0,1) | ISO 8601 Date and Time Formats - W3C| 2.4.R Last Updated | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2.5 Description | An account of the resource | Description | description | notes | Yes | string | ^[a-z0-9_-]{2,}$ | (1,1) | - | 2.6 Keyword | Commonly used words or phrases which describe the resource. | Keywords | keyword | keywords | Yes | Separate keywords with commas. | Separate keywords with commas. | (1,n) | Separate keywords with commas. | 2.7 Frequency of Update | The frequency with which changes and additions are made to the resource after the initial resource is completed. | Frequency | maintainenceAndUpdateFrequency | maintenance_and_update_frequency | Yes | Text, based on encoding scheme | See Usage Notes | (1,1) | Controlled vocabulary - North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 : naoMD_MaintencanceFrequencyCode | 2.8 Title | A name of a given (dataset) | Title | title | title | Yes | string | ^[a-z0-9_-]{2,}$ | (1,1) | - | 2.9 Category | Theme | The topic of the resource | "Subject Topic Category" | subject | "subject topic_category" | Yes | Text, based on encoding scheme | See Usage Notes | (1,n) | Controlled vocabulary: Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus |
- Extext | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3.1 Spatial coverage |Spatial characteristics of the resource | Spatial | spatial | spatial | If applicable | string | See Usage Notes | (0,1) | Encoding scheme:The GeoJSON Format Specification | 3.2 Spatial Type | The method used to spatially represent geographic information | Spatial Representation Type | spatialRepresentationType | spatial_representation_type | If applicable | Text, based on encoding scheme | See Usage Notes | - | - | 3.3 Spatial Coordinates | Spatial characteristics of the resource | Spatial | spatial | spatial | If applicable | string | See Usage Notes | (0,1) | Encoding scheme:The GeoJSON Format Specification| 3.4 Geographic Region Name | The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant. | Geographic Region | coverage | geographic_region | If applicable | Text, based on encoding scheme | See Usage Notes | (0,n) | Controlled vocabulary : Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) | 3.5 Geographic Bounding Box - Lower Left Corner | Spatial characteristics of the resource | Spatial | spatial | spatial | If applicable | string | See Usage Notes | (0,1) | Encoding scheme:The GeoJSON Format Specification | 3.6 Bounding Box - Upper Right Corner | Spatial characteristics of the resource | Spatial | spatial | spatial | If applicable | string | See Usage Notes | (0,1) | Encoding scheme:The GeoJSON Format Specification | 3.7 Bounding Box - Coordinate Reference System | Spatial characteristics of the resource | Spatial | spatial | spatial | If applicable | string | See Usage Notes | (0,1) | Encoding scheme:The GeoJSON Format Specification | 3.8 Geographic Bounding Box - Dimensions | Spatial characteristics of the resource | Spatial | spatial | spatial | If applicable | string | See Usage Notes | (0,1) | Encoding scheme:The GeoJSON Format Specification | 3.9 Temporal coverage | Temporal characteristics of a resource. | (=Temporal) | timePeriodCoverageStart/timePeriodCoverageEnd | time_period_coverage_start/time_period_coverage_end | If applicable | date | "YYYY-MM-DD See Usage Notes" | (0,1) | ISO 8601 Date and Time Formats - W3C | 3.10 Temporal coverage starts | Temporal characteristics of a resource. The start date or time interval (s) convered by the data. | Time Period Coverage Start | timePeriodCoverageStart | time_period_coverage_start | If applicable | date | "YYYY-MM-DD See Usage Notes" | (0,1) | ISO 8601 Date and Time Formats - W3C | 3.11 Temporal coverage ends | Temporal characteristics of a resource. The end date or time intervals (s) covered by the data. | Time Period Coverage End | timePeriodCoverageEnd | time_period_coverage_end | If applicable | date | "YYYY-MM-DD See Usage Notes" | (0,1) |ISO 8601 Date and Time Formats - W3C | 3.12 Temporal granularity | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3.13 Temporal granularity factor | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3.14 Periodicity of data(set) collection | The frequency with which changes and additions are made to the resource after the initial resource is completed. | Frequency | maintainenceAndUpdateFrequency | maintenance_and_update_frequency | Yes | Text, based on encoding scheme | See Usage Notes | (1,1) | Controlled vocabulary - North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 : naoMD_MaintencanceFrequencyCode | 3.15 Periodicity of the production process | The frequency with which changes and additions are made to the resource after the initial resource is completed. | Frequency | maintainenceAndUpdateFrequency | maintenance_and_update_frequency | Yes | Text, based on encoding scheme | See Usage Notes | (1,1) | Controlled vocabulary - North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 : naoMD_MaintencanceFrequencyCode | 3.16 Periodicity of the estimates | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3.17 Temporal and spatial comparability | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3.18 Periodicity of data dissemination | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3.19 Data quality | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3.20 Reference period | Temporal characteristics of a resource. | (=Temporal) | timePeriodCoverageStart/timePeriodCoverageEnd | time_period_coverage_start/time_period_coverage_end | If applicable | date | "YYYY-MM-DD See Usage Notes" | (0,1) | ISO 8601 Date and Time Formats - W3C |
- Supplemental Information | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4.1 Documentation URL - resource | The type of resource | Resource Type | resourceType | resource_type | Yes | Text, based on encoding scheme | See Usage Notes | (1,1) | Controlled list |
- Distribution information | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5.1 Licence | The limitations or constraints on the use of the resource | Licence | useConstraints | licence_id | Yes | string | - | (1,1) | - | 5.2 Copyright | The limitations or constraints on the use of the resource | (=Licence) | useConstraints | licence_id | Yes | string | - | (1,1) | - | 5.3 Size | The estimated size of a unit in the specified transfer format. | Size | transferSize | size | Yes | numeric | Expressed in Bytes | (1,1) | - | 5.4 URL - resource | The location (address) for on-line access using a Unifrom Resource Locator address or similar addressing scheme. | URL | linkage | url | Yes | string | - | (1,1) | - | 5.5 Homepage URL | The URL for the Government of Canada program that is responsible for the dataset. | Homepage URL | homepageUrl | url | If applicable | URL | - | (0,1) | - | 5.6 Format - resource | The name of the data transfer format. | Format | name | format | YES | Text, based on encoding scheme | See Usage Notes | (1,1) | Controlled list. | 5.7 Language | The language of the resource | Language | language | language | Yes | Text, based on encoding scheme | See Usage Notes | (1,1) | Controlled vocabulary : Codes for the Representation of Names of Language, Part 2: Alpha-3 Code / Terminology Codes (ISO 639-2/T) and ISO 3166-1 country codes |
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