This International Standard defines rules for creating and documenting application schemas, including principles for the definition of features.
The scope of this International Standard includes the following:
-- conceptual modelling of features and their properties from a universe of discourse;
-- definition of application schemas;
-- use of the conceptual schema language for application schemas;
-- transition from the concepts in the conceptual model to the data types in the application schema;
-- integration of standardized schemas from other ISO geographic information standards with the application schema.
The following are outside the scope:
-- choice of one particular conceptual schema language for application schemas;
-- definition of any particular application schema;
-- representation of feature types and their properties in a feature catalogue;
-- representation of metadata;
-- rules for mapping one application schema to another;
-- implementation of the application schema in a computer environment;
-- computer system and application software design;
-- programming.