Class Name: Citation

Superclass - <SEDRIS Abstract Base>

Subclasses

Definition

An instance of this DRM class specifies the recommended bibliographic reference information to be used for the environmental data being described by the given <Citation> instance such that the information is provided in an ISO 19115 compatible form. The environmental data refers to the object tree rooted at the aggregate of the <Citation> instance. If a <Citation> instance is shared by multiple aggregate objects, the environmental data refers to the collection of object trees rooted at its various aggregates.

NOTE  The term "environmental data" is equivalent to the term "data set" in ISO 19115.

Primary Page in DRM Diagram:

• 20

Secondary Pages in DRM Diagram:

Example

1. Consider a transmittal produced from a transportation thematic layer in GIS feature data, where the source data is not part of a series, and where this is its first edition as a transmittal. In this case, the transmittal was produced by ABC Company using their ABC conversion tool on 2002-06-22T14:56:30Z.

   The citation information for the <Transmittal Root> instance of the transmittal is as follows.

   title	"Transportation Thematic Layer";
   edition	"1.0";
   series_name	"N/A";
   issue_identification	"N/A";
   other_citation_details	"Created using ABC to STF converter";

   The fields of the <Absolute Time> instance are set to the following.

   time_significance	SE_TIMESIGNIF_PUBLICATION_DATE
   time_value.value. ymd_hms.year	2002
   time_value.value. ymd_hms.month	SE_MONTH_JUNE
   time_value.value. ymd_hms.day	22
   time_value.value. ymd_hms.hour	14
   time_value.value. ymd_hms.minutes	56
   time_value.value. ymd_hms.seconds	30.0

FAQs

What is the purpose of this class?

This class provides ISO 19115 compliant metadata that allows a <Transmittal Root> or a high-level component of a <Transmittal Root> (e.g., a <Model>, <Image>) to be referenced in external documents. <Citation> identifies the object by name and edition/version, and specifies who created and/or released the object, and when it was created/released.

Constraints

• <<Publishable Object>>
• <<Mandatory Metadata>>

Composed of (two-way)

• one or more <Absolute Time> instances¹

Composed of (two-way metadata)

• zero or more <Responsible Party> instances, each through the use of a <Role Data> link object²

Component of (two-way)

• zero or more <Identification> instances
• zero or more <Keywords> instances
• zero or more <Source> instances

Inherited Field Elements

Field Elements

Notes

Composed of Notes

Absolute_Time

Responsible_Party

Fields Notes

title

The title field specifies the name by which the environmental data is known.

edition

The edition field specifies the version of the environmental data, if the value is provided.

series_name

The series_name field specifies the name of the series or aggregate environmental data of which the given environmental data is a part.

issue_identification

The issue_identification field identifies the issue of the series.

other_citation_details

The other_citation_details field supplies any other information required to complete the citation that is not recorded elsewhere.