Metadata Record -- Main Section

Basic Information Panel

Basic Information {type: collection}
Usage: The Basic Information panel holds a collection of elements that identify and describe the main resource.

• Record ID {type: string; max length: none; default: UUID}
  Usage: A unique identifier (ID) for the metadata record.

  Edit Click 'Edit' to change the Record ID.

  Use caution when editing the Record ID. This ID must be unique among ALL your metadata records. If this ID was used to link with other metadata records, changing it may break the link.

• Title {type: string; max length: none; default: empty}
  Usage: A user-provided title for the resource. This was required when the metadata record was created but may be edited at any time.

• Status {type: codelist (ISO MD_ProgressCode, ADIwg codes); multi-value: YES; extensible: YES; multi-value: YES; default: empty}
  Usage: The current status of the main resource.

• Default Locale {type: object (Locale); default (eng, UTF-8, USA)}
  Usage: The default or primary language and character encoding for the main resource.
  See object details

Locale Object

• Language {type: codelist (ISO 639 Part 2); extensible: YES; multi-value: NO; default: "eng"}
  Usage: Identifies the primary language of the main resource.

• Character Set {type: codelist (IANA - Internet Assigned Numbers Authority); extensible: YES; multi-value: NO; default: "UTF-8"}
  Usage: Name of the character coding standard used in the main resource.

• Country {type: codelist (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3); extensible: YES; multi-value: NO; default: "USA"}
  Usage: Three letter country code.

a component of Alaska Data Integration working group's Metadata Toolkit

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