Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata. This standard specifies the information content of metadata for a set of digital geospatial data. The purpose of the standard is to provide a common set of terminology and definitions for concepts related to these metadata.
Metadata are data about the content, quality, condition, and other characteristics of data.
At the forum, the participants agreed on the need for a standard on the information content of metadata about geospatial data. This draft was slightly revised, and offered for public review from October 1992 to April 1993. Extensive comments were received from the public. The FGDC's Standards Working Group revised the draft. The revised draft was provided for further review and testing in July 1993.