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Part III. Appendix 1: Metadata and Data DiscoveryAnnex A: Glossary of TermsAccuracyConformity to fact. (From The American Heritage Dictionary, third edition)CatalogA list or itemized display, as of titles, course offerings, or articles for exhibition orsale, usually including descriptive information or illustrations. (From The AmericanHeritage Dictionary, third edition)DAML+OILA semantic markup language for web resources. It builds on earlier W3C standardssuch as RDF and RDF Schema, and extends these languages with richermodeling primitives. (From http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/NOTE-daml+oil-reference-20011218)FGDCThe Federal Geographic Data Committee coordinates the development of theNational Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). The NSDI encompasses policies,standards, and procedures for organizations to cooperatively produce and sharegeographic data. The Federal Geographic Data Committee approved the ContentStandard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (FGDC-STD-001-1998) in June 1998.(From http://www.fgdc.gov/)InventoryA detailed, itemized list, report, or record of things in one’s possession, especiallya periodic survey of all goods and materials in stock. (From The American HeritageDictionary, third edition)LineageDirect descent from a particular ancestor; ancestry. Derivation. (From The AmericanHeritage Dictionary, third edition)OntologyOntology is the theory of objects and their ties. The unfolding of ontologyprovides criteria for distinguishing various types of objects (concrete andabstract, existent and non-existent, real and ideal, independent and dependent)and their ties (relations, dependences and predication). (From http://www.formalontology.it/)OWLA semantic markup language for publishing and sharing ontologies on the WorldWide Web. OWL is derived from the DAML+OIL Web Ontology Language[DAML+OIL] and builds upon the Resource Description Framework [RDF/XML Syntax]. The OWL Web Ontology Language is being designed by the W3CWeb Ontology Working Group in order to provide a language that can be usedfor applications that need to understand the content of information instead ofjust understanding the human-readable presentation of content. OWL facilitates134