<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="008" name="geoscientificInformation" parent="000" scope="Information pertaining to earth sciences, for example geophysical features and processes, geology, minerals, sciences dealing with the composition, structure and origin of the earth's rocks, risks of earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, gravity information, soils, permafrost, hydrogeology, groundwater, erosion"/><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>