Geospatial metadata
METADATA USED FOR DESCRIBING GEOSPATIAL DATA
GIS metadata; Geographic metadata; ISO 19115; Geographic MetaData; ISO 19139
Geospatial metadata (also geographic metadata) is a type of metadata applicable to geographic data and information. Such objects may be stored in a geographic information system (GIS) or may simply be documents, data-sets, images or other objects, services, or related items that exist in some other native environment but whose features may be appropriate to describe in a (geographic) metadata catalog (may also be known as a data directory or data inventory).