The Geoscience Australia catalogue uses a profile of certain controlled vocabularies (codelists) from the ISO19115-1 metadata standard. A profile includes extra terms that are used by Geoscience Australia that do not appear in the original standard. In this vocabulary, the catalogue metadata uses the MD_AssociatedResource entity to indicate associations or relationships between resource metadata records or business documentation. If these associations are used in a metadata record they will appear as an extra tab to the right of the "Technical" tab as an "Associations" tab. The vocabulary includes the ISO terms and the GA terms. This profile is described in the Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014.

This is a companion document to the data dictionary documents for web services delivering data from Geoscience Australia’s (GA) science databases. This document contains the vocabularies of terms used in attribute data in the web services, based on look up tables in GA’s relational databases. GA is endeavouring to have as many as possible of the controlled terms in its science databases based on externally published vocabularies. Those look up tables in this document that are not currently an externally published vocabulary may in time be moved to an external vocabulary service. For more information on GA’s public vocabularies see eCat record “Geoscience Australia Vocabularies” - https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/102140.