This section will highlight the common name(s) and acronym(s) referring to a data set: (?)

Dataset Name: (?)		(if any)
Acronym: (?)
Previous Names: (?)		(where applicable)

Owner

This section will highlight the agency responsible for the data set being described. (?)

Department, agency, business, community, university, etc.:
(include branch or division) (?)

Organization: (?)

Federal Government Provincial Government Regional/Municipal Government
University/Research Institution Private Business Non-profit Organization
Native Organization
Other (please specify)

Contact Person

This section will highlight the most appropriate individual to be contacted when questions arise regarding the data set. (?)

Name:
Position:
Organization: (?)
Department:
Branch/Division:
Telephone:
Fax:
Email:

Street Address:
City:
Province:
Postal Code:

Mailing Address:
City:
Province:
Postal Code:
Country:

Information on the Data Set Content

This section allows for the opportunity to describe aspects of the data set, from the perspective of the administering agency. (?)

Please provide a brief description of the data set (?)


Please state the primary intent of the data set. Provide examples where appropriate. (?)


Is this part of a larger data set or linked to other data sets? (?)
YesNo
If yes, please indicate linked data sets:


Is this data set being collected as part of relevant legislation? (?)
YesNo
If yes, please provide the name of the legislation:


Language of data set: (?) English French Other
If other, specify:

Keywording

Indicate Primary Keywords which might be used to reference this Data Set (Please reference the list below). (?)

Indicate secondary keywords which might be used to reference this Data Set: (?)

Agriculture (Including irrigation, machinery, horticulture) Anthropology (Including physical anthropology, ethnology, social and political anthropology) Aquaculture Archaeology Arts and Crafts Biology Botany Boundaries (Including political, administrative, regulatory, statistical, cadastral Buildings Climatology and Meteorology Commerce (Including insurance) Communications (Including postal service, telecommunications industry, telegraph, radio and television, telephone, artificial satellite telecommunications) Cryogenics (Including ice and permafrost) Ecology Economics (Including history, conditions, production, labour, revenue) Education Engineering Environmental Pollution Environmental Protection Folklore, Manners, and Customs Forestry Geodesy Geography (Including topography, toponymy) Geology (Including mineralogy, petrology, dynamic and structural geology, stratigraphic geology, palaeontology) Geomorphology Geophysics (Including seismology) Health and Medicine (Including alcoholism, hygiene, public safety) Human Ecology (Including anthropogeography) Hydrocarbons

Hydrology (Including ground water, rivers, lakes, glaciers, ice, snow) Hydrography (Including bathymetry, tides, currents, nautical charts) Industry (Including tourism, excluding manufacturing) Land Use (Including land cover, urban and regional plans) Language Manufacturing (Including leather, tobacco, animal, rubber industry, packaging) Military Mining and Metalurgy Natural Disasters Natural Resources (Including wildlife conservation, land conservation, fisheries) Oceanography (Including chemical oceanography, physical oceanography, dynamics of the ocean, marine sediments, marine resources, marine pollution) Pests and Diseases (Affecting flora and fauna) Physics (Including radioactivity and geomagnetism) Political Science Population (Including demographic and census data for both legislative/administrative and statistical standard geographic areas) Recreation (Including outdoor recreation, camping, hiking, wilderness survival, caving, parks and public reservations) Remote Sensing Sociology (Including human settlements, criminology) Soils Transportation (Including traffic engineering, roads and highways, streets, airports, airstrips, water transportation, railways, automotive transportation, stage lines, ferries) Utilities (Including electricity, gas; excluding water supply) Waste (Including sewage collection and disposal systems) Water (Including supply and use for domestic and industrial purposes, saline water conversion, distribution systems) Wildlife (Including birds, insects, fish, hunting, trapping, fishing) Zoology (Including animal behaviour) Other If other, specify:

Geographic Coverage of Data Set

This section allows for the opportunity to reference the data set to the ground (?)

Identify the area(s) covered by the data set: (?)
Provincial Coverage YesNo
Jurisdictional Unit (e.g. municipal unit, electoral district)

Map Sheet Name(s)/Number(s) (where applicable)


Bounding Rectangle (if different from complete map sheet coverage)

Lower left coordinate
Upper right coordinate
Other geographic descriptions/references

For the coverage indicated above,
does the data set contain all possible data attempting to be described?
YesNoN/A

If not complete, please explain:

Time Coverage of Data Set

This section should define the dates being covered by the data set (?)

Frequency of updates to data set: (?)

Yearly Monthly Weekly Daily
Other (please specify)

Please identify the time period covered by the Data Set (CCYY/MM/DD) (?)

Beginning Ending (where applicable)

OR Not Applicable (i.e. the data set is dynamic)
Is the time coverage all inclusive? (?) Yes No N/A

If not complete, please explain:


Date of last Data Set update/revision (CCYY/MM/DD): (?)

Details of Data Collection

This section will allow a person to gain a better understanding of how the Data Set was created. (?)

Please indicate the type of map base (or map graphic) used (if applicable) (?)


Period during which data was collected (may differ from period covered by data set) (?)
CCYY/MM/DD:

Beginning Ending(where applicable)

Source(s) of the Data: (?)
B&W Aerial Photography Colour Aerial Photography
Infrared Aerial Photography Satellite Imagery Survey (engineering)
Survey Plans Survey (questionnaire) Field Measurements Reports
Global Positioning System (GPS)

Other (please specify)(where applicable)

Details associated with data collection (?)
(include any relevant information reflecting level of uniformity, geographic
coverage or time, consistency, constraints, sampling methodology, etc., of the data set):

Map Projection: (?)

Lambert Conformal Stereographic Modified Transverse Mercator
Universal Transverse Mercator Polyconic
Other (specify)
Not Known N/A

Coordinate System(s): (?)

Latitude/Longitude Easting/Northing Azimuths or Bearings and Distances
Other (specify)
Not Known N/A

Geodetic Datum: (?)

Horizontal

NAD 27 NAD 83 ATS 77
Other (specify)
Not Known N/A

Vertical

NAD 27 NAD 83
Other (specify)
Not Known N/A

Scale or resolution at which the information was collected: (?)

1:

or range of scales from 1: to 1:

Scale or resolution at which the information was entered into Data Set:

1:

or range of scales from 1: to 1:

Pixel Resolution (if applicable):

X: metres
Y: metres

Positional Accuracy: (?)

Absolute Relative

Horizontal	+ or -		metres
Vertical	+ or -		metres

Other Accuracy
Please indicate and grid correction:

Data Quality and Accuracy

This section will give an indication of the quality of the data so as to determine if the data set is suitable for a given application

Please supply comments regarding the quality of the data (including, where applicable, topological relationships) contained in the Data Set: (?)

Access Policy

(Product or Distribution Policy)

This section will give an indication to the catalogue user of any restrictions placed on the use of the described data set. (?)

Public Access Restricted Access

Please supply details regarding access restrictions:


Liability disclaimers:


Copyright status:

Charges/Fees

This section will allow both government departments and the general public to anticipate any costs which may be associated with access to the Data Set. If charges appear on a per unit basis, please specify. (?)

Browsing/Searching	$
Aquisition	$
Royalty	$
Other	$

If charges are on a per unit basis, please specify:
To be determined No Charge

Supporting Documentation

This section will provide the catalogue user with access to support documentation (?)

For each document which supports the Data Set the following information should be provided:

• Full bibliographical reference(s)
• Type of documentation (e.g. user manual, data description, source information, scientific publication, report, data quality statement, specifications, etc.)
• Language used (e.g. English, French, etc.)
• Format of supporting document(s) (digital, hardcopy)

Is a demonstration or tutorial available?
YesNo

Comments

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Please note that if you complete either of the two remaining questionaires the use of the dataset name should correspond with that used in this Part 1, General Catalog Information