| Name | Metadata language |
| Definition | Language in which metadata elements are documented. |
| Obligation |
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| Multiplicity | [1] |
| Example | eng |
| NSDI is limited to Croatian and English. Only three-letter language codes from the ISO 639-2 standard can be used, ie hrv or eng. | |
Tehnical data
| INSPIRE equivalent | Metadata language |
| Comparison with INSPIRE | equivalent (limited to Croatian and English) |
| ISO equivalent | [3] language |
| Comparison with ISO | equivalent (limited to Croatian and English) |
| XPath | language |
| Data type | LanguageCode (ISO/TS 19139) |
| Domain | Official languages defined by the ISO 639-2 standard: hrv and eng. |
| Implementation instructions | Only three-letter language codes from the ISO 639-2 standard can be used, ie hrv or eng. |
List of metadata language codes
| Name | XML value | Domain code |
| Croatian | hrv | 001 |
| English | eng | 002 |
Encoding example
| <gmd:MD_Metadata... ... <gmd:language> <gmd:LanguageCode codeList="http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/" codeListValue="eng">english</gmd:LanguageCode> </gmd:language> ... </gmd:MD_Metadata> |