International Organization for Standardization

Geographic information - Rules for application schema - Second Edition
 N 19109

Annotation

This International Standard defines rules for creating and documenting application schemas, including principles for the definition of features.

The scope of this International Standard includes the following:

— conceptual modelling of features and their properties from a universe of discourse;

— definition of application schemas;

— use of the conceptual schema language for application schemas;

— transition from the concepts in the conceptual model to the data types in the application schema;

— integration of standardized schemas from other ISO geographic information standards with the application schema.

The following are outside the scope:

— choice of one particular conceptual schema language for application schemas;

— definition of any particular application schema;

— representation of feature types and their properties in a feature catalogue;

— representation of metadata;

— rules for mapping one application schema to another;

— implementation of the application schema in a computer environment;

— computer system and application software design;