<descriptor thcode="15"><thesaurus thcode="15" name="ISO 19115 Topic Category" scope="General subjects for which geospatial data may be relevant. Few, broad terms." creator="ISO" rights="May be covered under ISO copyright." edition="1.0" date="2013-04-16" codetype="alpha" prefix="iso19115" tblname="isotopic" root_code="000" contact="pschweitzer"><category><term thcode="25" code="5" name="theme" parent="2" scope="Terms indicate domains of human concern, such as scientific discipline, societal problems, or characteristics of earth, space, oceans, and living things."/><term thcode="25" code="15" name="flat" parent="11" scope="The vocabulary consists of a list of terms that are of roughly equal generality. This applies also in the case where a single broader term serves as parent to the entire vocabulary."/><term thcode="25" code="14" name="not transitive" parent="12" scope="Narrower terms cannot reliably be understood as parts of, types of, or instances of the terms that are broader than them."/><term thcode="25" code="29" name="distinct labels" parent="26" scope="Preferred labels (descriptor texts) are distinct within the thesaurus. A concept can be specified either by its unique identifier (code) or by the text of its descriptor."/><term thcode="25" code="5" name="theme" parent="2" scope="Terms indicate domains of human concern, such as scientific discipline, societal problems, or characteristics of earth, space, oceans, and living things."/><term thcode="25" code="15" name="flat" parent="11" scope="The vocabulary consists of a list of terms that are of roughly equal generality. This applies also in the case where a single broader term serves as parent to the entire vocabulary."/><term thcode="25" code="14" name="not transitive" parent="12" scope="Narrower terms cannot reliably be understood as parts of, types of, or instances of the terms that are broader than them."/><term thcode="25" code="29" name="distinct labels" parent="26" scope="Preferred labels (descriptor texts) are distinct within the thesaurus. A concept can be specified either by its unique identifier (code) or by the text of its descriptor."/></category><altlabel><altlabel>ISO 19115 Topic Categories</altlabel><altlabel>ISO 19115 Topic Categories</altlabel><altlabel>iso19115</altlabel><altlabel>iso19115</altlabel></altlabel></thesaurus><term thcode="15" code="002" name="biota" parent="000" scope="Flora or fauna in natural environment, for example wildlife, vegetation, biological sciences, ecology, wilderness, sea life, wetlands, habitat, biological resources"/><bt><term thcode="15" code="000" name="ISO 19115 Topic Category" scope="High-level geospatial data thematic classification to assist in the grouping and search of available geospatial datasets, defined in ISO 19115:2003."/></bt></descriptor>