Metadata within the NBN This information describes how the NBN
metadata standard is compatible with other key national and
international standards. The table in Annex one maps the GEMINI
standard to NBN, GIgateway, ISO and E-GMS. The NBN Standard The
NBN metadata standard was first drafted in August 2002. It
provided editorial guidance specifically tailored to define the
level of contextual information to describe a wildlife data
resource. The NBN standard adopted the metadata model of the
GIgateway standard (previously referred to as the National
Geospatial Data Framework [NGDF]). The GIgateway Standard was
selected for two main reasons: GIgateway metadata had been
developed specifically to document geo-spatially referenced
datasets for use within Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In
doing so the standard covered information important to most
biological datasets, and was aligned with international GIS
standards. The Association for Geographic Information (AGI)
responsible for developing the GIgateway sta