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Geographic Information Metadata for Spatial Data Infrastructures

Resources, Interoperability and Information Retrieval

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  • © 2005

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Authors:
  1. Javier Nogueras-Iso

    1. University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

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  2. F. Javier Zarazaga-Soria

    1. University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

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  3. Pedro R. Muro-Medrano

    1. University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

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  • Deals with different aspects and proposals to improve the utilization of metadata, overall in the context of Spatial Data Infrastructures

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXI
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  2. Spatial Data Infrastructures and related concepts

    Pages 1-30

  3. A metadata infrastructure for the management of nested collections

    Pages 31-88

  4. Interoperability between metadata standards

    Pages 89-127

  5. The use of disambiguated thesauri to improve information retrieval

    Pages 129-168

  6. Integrating the concepts within the components of a Spatial Data Infrastructure

    Pages 169-196

  7. Conclusions and future work

    Pages 197-205

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 207-263
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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).

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"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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  • University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

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

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