| Name | Resource language |
| Definition | Language/s used within the resource. |
| Obligation |
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| Multiplicity | [0..*] |
| Example | hrv |
| Text in a dataset or dataset series can be written in multiple languages. In this case, it is needed to specify all the languages used in multiple instances of the gmd:language/gmd:LanguageCode element. The ISO three-letter language codes defined in the ISO 639-2 standard, which can be found at http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/, must be used. | |
Technical data
| INSPIRE equivalent | Resource language |
| Comparison with INSPIRE | equivalent |
| ISO equivalent | [39] language |
| Comparison with ISO | equivalent |
| XPath | identificationInfo[1]/*/language |
| Data type | LanguageCode (ISO/TS 19139) |
| Domain | Kodna lista jezika definirana ISO 639-2 normom |
| Implementation instructions | Only three-letter language codes from the ISO 639-2/B (bibliographic codes) standard are used. If the source does not contain textual information, it is necessary to use the "zxx" expression of the ISO 639-2/B code list that specifies this (no linguistic content; not applicable). |
The table below shows data for the official EU languages.
EU languages and XML values
| Name | XML value | Domain code |
| Bulgarian | bul | 001 |
| Czech | cze | 002 |
| Danish | dan | 003 |
| English | eng | 004 |
| Estonian | est | 005 |
| Finnish | fin | 006 |
| French | fre | 007 |
| Greek | gre | 008 |
| Croatian | hrv | 009 |
| Irish | gle | 010 |
| Lithuainian | lit | 011 |
| Latvian | lav | 012 |
| Hungarian | hun | 013 |
| Maltese | mlt | 014 |
| Dutch | dut | 015 |
| German | ger | 016 |
| Polish | pol | 017 |
| Portugese | por | 018 |
| Romanian | rum | 019 |
| Slovak | slo | 020 |
| Slovenian | slv | 021 |
| Spanish | spa | 022 |
| Swedish | swe | 023 |
| Italian | ita | 024 |
Encoding example
| <gmd:MD_Metadata... ... <gmd:identificationInfo> <gmd:MD_DataIdentification> ... <gmd:language> <gmd:LanguageCode codeList="http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/" codeListValue="hrv">hrvatski</gmd:LanguageCode> </gmd:language> ... </gmd:MD_DataIdentification> </gmd:identificationInfo> ... </gmd:MD_Metadata> |