Geographic Information Metadata for Spatial Data Infrastructures: Resources, Interoperability and Information Retrieval

by Javier Nogueras-Iso, Francisco Javier Zarazaga-Soria, Pedro R. Muro-Medrano

Overview

Metadata play a fundamental role in both DLs and SDIs. Commonly defined as "structured data about data" or "data which describe attributes of a resource" or, more simply, "information about data", it is an essential requirement for locating and evaluating available data. Therefore, this book focuses on the study of different metadata aspects, which contribute to a more efficient use of DLs and SDIs. The three main issues addressed are: the management of nested collections of resources, the interoperability between metadata schemas, and the integration of information retrieval techniques to the discovery services of geographic data catalogs (contributing in this way to avoid metadata content heterogeneity).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540244646
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	05/31/2005
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	263
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

Spatial Data Infrastructures and related concepts.- A metadata infrastructure for the management of nested collections.- Interoperability between metadata standards.- The use of disambiguated thesauri to improve information retrieval.- Integrating the concepts within the components of a Spatial Data Infrastructure.- Conclusions and future work.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"The book focuses on technologies and methodologies that can provide better utilization of metadata within spatial data infrastructures. … The concepts exposed, in addition to the examples and a thorough corpus of additional bibliographic references, will bring readers to a better understanding of the design and management of future geospatial data infrastructures. This is an excellent book, which I recommend reading." (Alessandro Berni, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (5), 2008)

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