Geospatial & Geography
14 standards in this subject area
Climate and Forecast Metadata Conventions
(CF Conventions)Metadata conventions that give NetCDF climate and geoscience variables well-defined meaning.
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
(CSDGM)The US federal standard for documenting geospatial data, mandated for all federal agency datasets.
General Transit Feed Specification
(GTFS)The dominant open standard for publishing public transit schedules, routes, and real-time service information.
Generic Earth Observation Metadata Standard
(GEOMS)Defines self-describing metadata templates for Earth observation validation data from ground instruments.
GeoDCAT-AP
(GeoDCAT-AP)Bridges geospatial metadata standards and open data catalogs across European data portals.
GeoNames Ontology
Provides linked data URIs and semantic descriptions for over 11 million global place names.
GeoSPARQL
(GeoSPARQL)Adds spatial query functions and a geometry ontology to SPARQL for the Semantic Web.
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
(TGN)Over 2.2 million place names with coordinates and hierarchies for cultural heritage cataloging.
ISO 19115 Geographic Information -- Metadata
(ISO 19115)The foundational international schema for describing geographic datasets and spatial services.
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic Information - Metadata
(NAP)Adapts ISO 19115 geospatial metadata for United States and Canadian data infrastructure needs.
Semantic Sensor Network Ontology
(SSN/SOSA)Models sensors, actuators, and their observations for IoT, scientific monitoring, and smart cities.
SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog
(STAC)Catalogs satellite imagery and geospatial assets with a cloud-native JSON structure.
Time Ontology in OWL
(OWL-Time)An OWL ontology for temporal concepts including instants, intervals, durations, and calendar systems.
W3C Basic Geo Vocabulary (WGS84)
(WGS84 Geo)Provides simple latitude, longitude, and altitude properties for describing geographic locations in RDF graphs.