Hi - I've been lurking on Wildlabs for a while, consuming as much info as humanly possible, but I seem to miss specific info for my current needs.

I'm the self appointed in house citizen scientist for a group involved in a nature reserve in South Africa, and I've been trying to consolidate location based information in a QGIS based system. I'm still learning GIS and related terminology (I have an IT background, not environmetal sciences or GIS), so please excuse any misuse/confusion.

We need to capture location based basics such as:

• Topography: not much in this flat area, but could include geology and soils
• Infrastructure: pumps, pipelines, buildings, ruins, solar instalations, trig beacons, etc.
• Roads: mostly unpaved tracks - with distinction between all year, seasonal, 4x4, tourist, walking paths, animal paths, fire roads, etc
• Boundaries: property lines, parcels, fences, national, provincial/state and local jurisdictions, old agricultural fields, development areas, etc, and
• Hydrological features: water bodies that could be seasonal, permanent, natural and/or man made springs, wetlands, dams, or reservoirs, streams and drainage, etc.), but eventually also fire management (burn areas, etc), and soon camera trap locations, and eventually more biological data such as vegetation maps, animal sightings, vulture nests, etc...

Our plan is to use this for basic reserve management, and eventually as a source of location based data to support future internal and external scientific studies.

My problem is on how to structure metadata (i.e. which columns to configure in my QGIS attribute tables) - are you aware of any standard data structures/schemas/models/framework that would help in standardizing the capture of metadata for especially what I call "basics" above?

I've started with OSM based tagging for roads, but when it gets to the infrastructure, boundaries and hydrological features the OSM model doesn't seem to be standardized and even relevant to African scenarios (since OSM is using British english and related terminology for mostly urbanized areas/roads originally).

I'm aware of several standards and data structures for bio logging and camera trap metadata (e.g. tdwg.org, GBIF, iNaturalist, eMammal, Darwin Core, CamtrapDP, Wildlife Insight, etc), but location based physical landscape and human infrastructure standards seems to elude me...

A sample QGIS geopackage or shapefile and related descriptive documentation of standardized features/elements would be the holy grail for me - and if you can then also provide QGIS styling I'll literally be in Nirvana. I'm not asking for much, am I? :-)

Thanks!