Application Profile

For the <gmd:applicationProfile> element, the INSPIRE Registry provides the values from the Spatial data service type codelist.

It is recommended to use the gmx:Anchor element when the provided text is a term or code, but the use of the element gco:CharacterString is allowed for backward compatibility with an existing Resource Locator description that might be already compliant this simplification approach.

Implementation Guidelines

The <gmd:applicationProfile> elementshould be encoded with gmx:Anchor. The attribute xlink:href should point to a valid unique resource identifier of the mentioned codelist. The text value should match the related codelist label, expressed in the metadata language where available.

Encoding example: Download Service locator with <gmx:Anchor>:

<gmd:applicationProfile> <gmx:Anchor xlink:href="https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/metadata- codelist/SpatialDataServiceType/download">download</gmx:Anchor> </gmd:applicationProfile>

Encoding  example: Download service locator with <gco:CharacterString>
 

<gmd:applicationProfile> <gco:CharacterString>download</gco:CharacterString> </gmd:applicationProfile>