
Geographic Information Metadata for Spatial Data Infrastructures
Resources, Interoperability and Information Retrieval
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 30. March 2005
Book
Hardback
XXI, 263 pages
978-3-540-24464-6 (ISBN)
Description
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).
Reviews / Votes
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)
More details
Edition
2005 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional/practitioner
Illustrations
XXI, 263 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-24464-6 (9783540244646)
DOI
10.1007/3-540-27508-8
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Javier Nogueras-Iso | Francisco Javier Zarazaga-Soria | Pedro R. Muro-Medrano
Geographic Information Metadata for Spatial Data Infrastructures
Resources, Interoperability and Information Retrieval
Book
10/2010
Springer
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Javier Nogueras-Iso | Francisco Javier Zarazaga-Soria | Pedro R. Muro-Medrano
Geographic Information Metadata for Spatial Data Infrastructures
Resources, Interoperability and Information Retrieval
E-Book
12/2005
1st Edition
Springer
€149.79
Available for download
Content
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.