Class

• <DRM Responsible Party>

Superclass

• <DRM SEDRIS Abstract Base>

Subclass

• None.

Definition

An instance of this DRM class provides identification of, and means of communication with, person(s) and organization(s) associated with the environmental data being described.

The environmental data refers to the object tree rooted at the aggregate of the <DRM Responsible Party> instance. If a <DRM Responsible Party> instance is shared by multiple aggregate objects, the environmental data refers to the collection of object trees rooted at its various aggregates.

NOTE  The term “environmental data” is equivalent to the term “data set” in ISO 19115.

If supplied, the individual_name field specifies the name of the responsible person, in the form surname, given name, title separated by delimiters.

The organization_name field specifies the name of the supporting organization.

If supplied, the position_name field specifies the role or position of the responsible person.

The contact_information field specifies the address of the responsible party.

Class diagram

Figure 6.279 — DRM_Responsible_Party

Constraints

• Mandatory metadata
• Publishable object

Example(s)

• Consider a data provider creating a <DRM Citation> instance for a MEL Thesaurus consulted in creating <DRM Keywords> instance information. The <DRM Responsible Party> component for the <DRM Citation> instance in this example contains the following data, where for clarity the locale information for each string has been omitted:

  individual_name	{ “” }
  organization_name	“Master Environmental Library (MEL)”
  position_name	“Air and Space Executive Agent Representative”
  contact_information. voice_phone	“(555) 555-5555”
  contact_information. fax_phone	“(555) 555-5555”
  contact_information. tdd_tty_phone	“(555) 555-5555”
  contact_information. address	{1, {“Air Force Weather Agency, Operating Location-M”}, “Asheville”, “NC”, “28801-5002”, {’u’,’s’,’a’} 1, {“asne@afccc.af.mil”}}
  contact_information. online_resource	{“http://msea.afccc.af.mil”, “HTTP” “”, “ASNE”, “provides ASNE information” INFORMATION }
  contact_information. hours_of_service	“email preferred”
  contact_information. contact_instructions	“email preferred”

  The corresponding <DRM Role Data> link object contains the following data:

  role	POINT_OF_CONTACT