With reviewing the history of normalization

the authors have discussed the role of data nomalization from the viewpoint of industrialization society to informatization society

also according to the challenge of the global information highway establishment to geoscience research

pointed out the role of data standard to the information collection and information sharing in thc informatization society. According to the recommendation of ISO/ TC 211 work group to the metadata of geographic information description and the analysis of the ISO and CEN standards

they present a basic idea of how to estab lish the metadata standard in the country. The research would have a very important meaning for the geographic information normalization establishment.