| Name | Reference date: date of creation |
| Definition | Date of creation of the source. |
| Obligation |
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| Multiplicity | [0..1] but at least one of the reference dates must be specified |
| Example | Date: 2010-06-16 Data type: created |
| This metadata element documents when the source was created. The date the data source was created is different from the temporal reference. Data can be collected earlier and the source created after that. | |
Technical data
| INSPIRE equivalent | Date of creation |
| Comparison with INSPIRE | equivalent |
| ISO equivalent | [394] date |
| Comparison with ISO | equivalent |
| XPath | identificationInfo[1]/*/citation/*/date[./*/dateType/*/text()='creation']/*/date |
| Data type | CI_Date |
| Domain | CI_Date<<DataType>>;[ISO 19108, ISO 8601] |
| Implementation instructions | Date is set using the values for year, month and day, in the format specified by the ISO 8601 standard. In realising temporal reference, date and date type is specified. Date type serves to distinguish between the dates of creation, the date of publication or the date of last revision. There cannot be more than one creation date. |
Encoding example
| <gmd:MD_Metadata... ... <gmd:identificationInfo> <gmd:MD_DataIdentification> <gmd:citation> <gmd:CI_Citation> ... <gmd:date> <gmd:CI_Date> <gmd:date> <gco:Date>2010-06-16</gco:Date> </gmd:date> <gmd:dateType> <gmd:CI_DateTypeCode codeList="http://standards.iso.org/iso/19139/resources/gmxCodelists.xml#CI_DateTypeCode" codeListValue="creation">created</gmd:CI_DateTypeCode> </gmd:dateType> </gmd:CI_Date> </gmd:date> ... </gmd:CI_Citation> </gmd:citation> ... </gmd:MD_DataIdentification> ... </gmd:identificationInfo> ... </gmd:MD_Metadata> |