FGDC to USMARC

Crosswalk: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata to USMARC.

See also the USMARC to FGDC crosswalk.

The FGDC standard specifies the information content of metadata for a set of digital geospatial data. The purpose of the standard is to provide a common set of terminology and definitions for concepts related to these metadata.

The USMARC formats (U. S. Machine Readable Cataloging) are standards for the representation and communication of bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form. A USMARC record involves three elements: the record structure, the content designation, and the data content of the record.

The following crosswalk was done by Elizabeth Mangan, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.

FGDC tag	FGDC name	USMARC tag
1.2.1	abstract	520
1.2.2	purpose	500
1.2.3	supplemental information	500
1.3.1	currentness reference	500
1.4.1	progress	583 l
1.4.2	maintenance and update frequency	310 c
1.5.1.1	west bounding coordinate	034 d
1.5.1.2	east bounding coordinate	034 e
1.5.1.3	north bounding coordinate	034 f
1.5.1.4	south bounding coordinate	034 g
1.5.2.1.1	g ring latitude	034 s
1.5.2.1.2	g ring longitude	034 t
1.6.1.1	theme keyword	650 a
1.6.1.1	theme keyword thesaurus	650 2
1.6.2.1	place keyword thesaurus	651 2
1.6.2.2	place keyword	651 a
1.6.3.1	stratum keyword thesaurus	651 2
1.6.3.2	stratum keyword	650 a
1.6.4.1	temporal keyword thesaurus	651 2
1.6.4.2	temporal keyword	650 a
1.7	access constraints	506 a
1.8	use constraints	540 a
1.10.1	browse graphic file name	856 f
1.10.2	browse graphic file description	856 z
1.10.3	browse graphic file type	856 z
1.11	data set credit	700, 710, 711
1.12.1	security classification system	355 e
1.12.2	security classification	355 a
1.12.3	security handling description	355 b
1.13	native data set environment desc	538
2.1.1	attribute-accuracy-report	514 a
2.1.2.1	attribute accuracy value	514 b
2.1.2.2	attribute accuracy explanation	514 c
2.2	logical consistency report	514 d
2.3	completeness report	514 e
2.4.1	horizontal positional accuracy report	514 f
2.4.1.2.1	horizontal positional accuracy value	514 g
2.4.1.2.2	horizontal positional accuracy explanation	514 h
2.4.2.1	vertical positional accuracy report	514 i
2.4.2.2.1	vertical positional accuracy value	514 j
2.4.2.2.2	vertical positional accuracy explanation	514 k
2.5.1.2	source scale denominator	786 m
2.5.1.3	type of source media	786 h
2.5.1.4.1	source currentness reference	786 j
2.5.1.5	source citation abbreviation	786 p
2.5.1.6	source contribution	786 v
2.5.2.1	process description	583 a
2.5.2.2	source used citation abbreviation	786 p
2.5.2.3	process date	583 c
2.5.2.4	process time	583 c
2.5.2.5	source produced citation abbreviation	583 b
2.6	cloud cover	514 m
3.1	indirect spatial reference	352 i
3.2	direct spatial reference method	352 a
3.3.1.1	sdts point and vector object type	352 b
3.3.1.2	point and vector object count	352 c
3.3.2.1	vpf topology level	352 g
3.3.2.2	vpf point and vector object type	352 b
3.4.1	raster object type	352 b
3.4.2	row count	352 d
3.4.3	column count	352 e
3.4.4	vertical count	352 f
4.1.1.1	latitude resolution	342 c
4.1.1.2	longitude resolution	342 d
4.1.1.3	geographic coordinate units	342 b
4.1.2.1.1	map projection name	342 a, 255 b
4.1.2.1.2.1	standard parallel	342 e
4.1.2.1.2.2	longitude of central meridian	342 g
4.1.2.1.2.3	latitude of projection origin	342 h
4.1.2.1.2.4	false easting	342 i
4.1.2.1.2.5	false northing	342 j
4.1.2.1.2.6	scale factor at equator	342 k
4.1.2.1.2.7	height of perspective point above surface	342 l
4.1.2.1.2.8	longitude of projection center	342 g
4.1.2.1.2.9	latitude of projection center	342 h
4.1.2.1.2.10	scale factor at center line	342 k
4.1.2.1.2.11.1	azimuth angle	342 m
4.1.2.1.2.11.2	azimuth measure point longitude	342 n
4.1.2.1.2.12.1		342 e
4.1.2.1.2.12.1	oblique line latitude	342 e
4.1.2.1.2.12.2		342 f
4.1.2.1.2.12.2	oblique line longitude	342 f
4.1.2.1.2.13	straight vertical longitude from pole	342 n
4.1.2.1.2.14	scale factor at projection origin	342 k
4.1.2.1.2.15	landsat number	342 o
4.1.2.1.2.16	path number	342 o
4.1.2.1.2.17	scale factor at central meridian	342 k
4.1.2.4.3.1	distance resolution	343 e
4.1.2.4.3.2	bearing resolution	343 f
4.1.2.4.3.3	bearing units	343 a
4.1.2.4.3.4	bearing reference direction	343 n
4.1.2.4.3.5	bearing reference meridian	343 i
4.1.2.4.4	planar distance units	343 b
4.1.3.1	local description	342 v
4.1.3.2	local georeference information	342 w
4.1.4.1	horizontal datum name	342 a
4.1.4.2	ellipsoid name	342 q
4.1.4.3	semi major axis	342 r
4.1.4.4	denominator of flattening ratio	342 s
4.2.1.1	altitude datum name	342 a
4.2.1.2	altitude resolution	342 t
4.2.1.3	altitude distance units	342 b
4.2.1.4	altitude encoding method	342 u
4.2.2.1	depth datum name	342 a
4.2.2.2	depth resolution	342 t
4.2.2.3	depth distance units	342 b
4.2.2.4	depth encoding method	342 u
5.1.1	entity type label	551 a
5.1.1.2	entity type definition	551 b
5.1.1.3	entity type definition source	551 b
5.1.2.1	attribute label	551 c
5.1.2.2	attribute definition	551 d
5.1.2.3	attribute definition source	551 d
5.1.2.4.1.1	enumerated domain value	551 e
5.1.2.4.1.2	enumerated domain value definition	551 f
5.1.2.4.1.3	enumerated domain value definition source	551 f
5.1.2.4.2.1	range domain minimum	551 g
5.1.2.4.2.2	range domain maximum	551 g
5.1.2.4.3.1	codeset name	551 h
5.1.2.4.3.2	codeset source	551 h
5.1.2.4.4	unrepresentable domain	551 i
5.1.2.5	attribute units of measure	551 j
5.1.2.6	attribute measurement resolution	551 j
5.1.2.7	beginning date of attribute values	551 k
5.1.2.8	ending date of attribute values	551 k
5.1.2.9.1	attribute value accuracy	551 l
5.1.2.9.2	attribute value accuracy explanation	551 m
5.1.2.10	attribute measurement frequency	551 n
5.2.2	entity and attribute detail citation	551 p
6.2	resource description	037 n
6.3	distribution liability	856 z
6.4.1	non-digital-form	037 f
6.4.2.1.1	format name	037 g
6.4.2.1.2	format version number	037 g
6.4.2.1.3	format version date	037 g
6.4.2.1.4	format specification	037 h
6.4.2.1.5	format information content	037 n
6.4.2.1.6	file decompression technique	037 n
6.4.2.1.7	transfer size	037 g
6.4.2.2.1.1.1.1	network resource name	856 f
6.4.2.2.1.1.2.1	lowest bps	856 j
6.4.2.2.1.1.2.2	highest bps	856 j
6.4.2.2.1.1.2.3	number databits	856 r
6.4.2.2.1.1.2.4	number stopbits	856 r
6.4.2.2.1.1.2.5	parity	856 r
6.4.2.2.1.1.2.6	compression support	856 c
6.4.2.2.1.1.2.7	dialup telephone	856 b
6.4.2.2.1.1.2.8	dialup file name	856 f
6.4.2.2.1.2	access instructions	856 i
6.4.2.2.1.3	online computer and operating system	856 o
6.4.2.2.2.1	offline media	037 f
6.4.2.2.2.2.1	recording density	037 g
6.4.2.2.2.2.2	recording density units	037 g
6.4.2.2.2.3	recording format	037 g
6.4.2.2.2.4	compatibility information	037 n
6.4.3	fees	037 c
6.4.4	ordering instructions	037 n
6.4.5	turnaround	037 c
6.5	custom order process	037 n
6.6	technical prerequisites	037 n
7.1	metadata date	583 c
7.2	metadata review date	583 z
7.3	metadata future review date	583 z
7.5	metadata standard name	583 f
7.6	metadata standard version	583 f
7.7	metadata time convention	583 z
7.8	metadata access constraints	506 3, 506 a
7.9	metadata use constraints	540 3, 540 a
7.10.1	metadata security classification system	355 c
7.10.2	metadata security classification	355 a
7.10.3	metadata security handling description	355 b
8.4	title	730, 740, 245 a & b
8.5	edition	250
8.6	geospatial data presentation form	500
8.7.1	series name	440 a, 410 except v; 810 except v; 830 a
8.7.2	issue identification	410 v, 440 v, 810 v, 830 v
8.8.1	publication place	260 a
8.8.2	publisher	260 b
8.9	other citation details	500
8.10	online linkage	856 u
9.1.1	calender date	045 b
9.1.2	time of day
9.3.1	beginning date	045 b
9.3.1 via 6.7	beginning date	037 c
9.3.2	beginning time
9.3.2 via 6.7	beginning time	037 c
9.3.3	ending date	045 b
9.3.3 via 6.7	ending date	037 c
9.3.4	ending time
9.3.4 via 6.7	ending time	037 c
10.4.5	postal code	270 c
10.4.6	country	270 d
10.5	contact voice telephone	270 k
10.6	contact tdd/tty telephone	270 h
10.7	contact facsimile telephone	270 l
10.8	contact electronic mail address	270 m
10.9	hours of service	270 r