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I get the concept of what a WFS is supposed to accomplish and how it does it however I can't seem to find any clear insight into how it handles feature metadata. GeoJSON has a properties attribute for any extra data you want to include with the feature is there something similar with WFS?

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With a WFS, the GetCapabilities response may provide some metadata, not only about the service itself but also specifically about the data served.

Example WFS GetCapabilities request

For example in this above response we can see that each of the FeatureTypes has an associated metadata link such as:

<FeatureType>
<Name>UKCoShelf_BGS_1M_SBS</Name>
...
<MetadataURL format="text/xml" type="TC211">
http://metadata.bgs.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/en/csw?service=CSW&request=GetRecordById&elementSetName=full&OutputSchema=http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd&ID=9df8df52-d786-37a8-e044-0003ba9b0d98&
</MetadataURL>
</FeatureType>

To find out more about the FeatureType itself you can make a DescribeFeatureType request like:

Example WFS DescribeFeatureType request

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