How will this ISO standard relate to other initiatives in the US and Europe such as those of the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), and the European Committee on Standardisation (CEN)?
Work on this standard has brought together the experiences of the FGDC, the CEN Technical Committee 287, which had developed a pre-standard on GI metadata in 1997, and similar activities that have taken place in Australia-New Zealand and Canada. All together 33 countries and 12 observer organisations are participating in the development of IS 19115. It is expected that those organisations that had already developed their standard on metadata will make the modifications necessary to become a recognized profile of the ISO standard. So for example Version 3 of the FGDC standard will become a profile of IS 19115. Similarly, it is expected that CEN will endorse this standard, thus making it a point of reference for all European organisations.
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