The primary objective for the Metadata Work Group is to develop a metadata profile specification for discovery, evaluation and retrieval of information and physical resources of interest to the energy industry.

The intent of this profile is to help improve operational efficiency within the industry through adoption of metadata standards, guidelines and best practices to enable efficient cataloging, discovery, evaluation, and retrieval of information resources, regardless of whether those resources are hosted internally or externally to an organization.

Scope

The intended audience and stakeholders of this initiative include energy companies and consortia, data and information providers, software vendors, government agencies, and academia.

The initial focus of the effort is on metadata for structured and unstructured information resources which have associated spatial coordinates. For example, geospatial data sets, mapping, interpretation, modeling project data sets, and geospatial web services are to be included. The long-term vision of information resources to be addressed includes data sets and documents with location specified using place names (e.g., XYZ field).

METHODOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT PLAN

The development plan follows Energistics' Standards Development Life Cycle. The primary deliverable will be the ISO Metadata Energy Industry Profile (EIP) v1.0.

As described in the September 2009 position paper, this profile will be based on existing ISO metadata standards and will leverage several key profiles also based on those standards. (See Reference Materials)

news and current activity

Current work group activities are focused on reviewing and responding to energy industry comments on the Energy Industry Profile (EIP) Release Candidate Version 1.0 distributed in Q3 2011. The team is also working to complete final specification documentation including XML examples that are dependent on the ISO/DIS 19115-1 release expected in late 2011.

The primary deliverable, targeted for Q1 2012, will be the Energy Industry Profile (EIP) Version 1.0. The specification will include a normative section describing mandatory or conditional elements in the ISO 19115 standard. The documentation also describes how to use each element of the current base standards (19115, 19119) to capture the same information, including those cases where the element is new and does not exist in the current standards.

More information on the EIP may be found here.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Please refer to Current Activities for a summary of current and recent activities.

Please refer to Reference Materials for presentations and supporting documentation.

Please refer to Work Group Members for information on the history of the group and a list of members.

For inquiries about participation, comments, and questions, please contact Energistics.

related standards activities

Metadata Work Group activities reference ISO 19115 and related standards, which are managed through ISO TC 211. Energistics' interests in TC 211 also extend to the relationship with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), some of whose standards are being absorbed into ISO via TC 211.

Energistics is a Class-A Liaison for TC 211.