Purpose

This Intelligence Community Standard (ICS) for Information Resource Metadata shall be applied to information products, information standards, content management, service transactions, and discovery applications where information resource metadata are required (e.g., electronic library catalog exchanges).

• Information products (or resources) include, but are not limited to text, databases, imagery, audio and video media, and other digital forms of content.
• Information resource metadata are typically administrative or descriptive in nature and primarily used to support activities such as information creation, storage, management, archiving, downgrading, searching, discovery, cataloging, and categorization.

Needs and Requirements

This standard was developed to support increased visibility, easier discovery, and enhanced understanding of information resources across mission and business domains. The conceptual elements defined in this standard are based on proven information management methodologies and are but one part of the overall effort to improve the discovery, sharing, and exchange of information between the collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination functions of the intelligence process. Applying metadata standards that incorporate these conceptual elements will improve the interoperability and consistency of information and make it more timely and usable for consumers.

Downloads

 ICS2007-500-3ResourceMetadata.pdf

Implementation Profiles

IP for Information Resource Metadata (HTML Encoding)

IP for Information Resource Metadata (XML Encoding)