This document provides a general interview approach for creating
metadata. It is not necessarily exhaustive but is intended to convey in
plain language the basic information that will be contained in the
metadata and link to pages specifying the steps required to write that
information into the metadata document itself. Questions in italics
indicate the topics and are not to be answered explicitly; those that are
in plain text, indented beneath them are the questions that need to be
answered.
Does the data set describe conditions during a particular time period?
Is this a digital map or remote-sensing image, or something different like tabular data?
How does the data set represent geographic features?
How are geographic features stored in the data set?
What coordinate system is used to represent geographic features?
How does the data set describe geographic features?
What are the types of features present?
For each feature, what attributes of these features are described?
What sort of values does each attribute hold?
For measured attributes, what are the units of measure, resolution of the measurements, frequency of the measurements in time, and estimated accuracy of the measurements?