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This standard defines a preservation metadata extension of ISO 19115-1, Metadata - Part 1: Fundamentals.

It defines the requirements for the long-term preservation of digital geospatial data. These data also include metadata, representation information, provenance, context and any other content items that capture the knowledge that are necessary to fully understand and reuse the archived data. This standard also refers to characteristics of data formats that are useful for the purpose of archiving.

Geospatial data are preserved as a geospatial information package (IP). This standard defines the requirements of the geospatial archival IP and details of the geospatial submission and the dissemination IPs. A geospatial archival IP shall be fully self-describing and shall allow a future reconstruction of the dataset without external documentation.

This standard complements standards developed by the ISO/TC 211 Geographic information / Geomatics as well as ISO archival standards such as the ISO 14721 Open archival information system (OAIS) - Reference model.