Revised UK GEMINI v2.1
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- Created on September 07, 2010
- Written by GIGateway
Version 2.1 of UK GEMINI2 includes changes to take into account the latest version of the INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules Technical Guidelines, as well as experience of use of the earlier version of UK GEMINI2. UK GEMINI specifies a core set of metadata elements for use in a geospatial discovery metadata service. The first version GEMINI, (v1.0) was published in 2004 and is used in the Gigateway metadata service. UK GEMINI2, published in 2008, was designed to meet the emerging requirements of the INSPIRE metatdata Implementing Rules, and to conform to the international metadata standard for geographic information, ISO 19115. UK GEMINI 2.1 will be used as the basis for the new UK geospatial discovery metadata service to be introduced in 2010/11, under the UK Location Programme Read More
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