Metainformation in Crisis Management Architecture: theoretical approaches, INSPIRE solution
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Proceedings of Cartography and Geoinformatics for Early Warning and Emergency Management |
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| Field | Earth magnetism, geography |
| Keywords | metadata; spatial data information; catalogue service; ISO; OGC; INSPIRE; interoperability |
| Description | This paper discusses interoperability of spatial data and services metainformation with the emphasis on the research of national standards, international trends and paneuropean unification. The core of the theoretical part of this study is the research of ISO and OGC metainformation standards and implementation of rules for INSPIRE metadata, including their compatibility and inferential results. INSPIRE represents the idea of interoperable spatial data infrastructures, which is based on using metadata as the key component for description of data and services as well as the requested parameters and results for catalogue services. INSPIRE Directive builds upon ISO and OGC documents and does not solve differences that can be found in their concepts. Analytical part of the study is focused (above all) on the confrontation of INSPIRE, ISO and OGC conceptual schemas, appropriate domains, definitions of code lists and ways of metainformation encoding into XML and related formats. Next part of this research represents implementation studies. INSPIRE Geoportal has been established as the highest level of the European spatial information infrastructure according to the document called Draft Guidelines: INSPIRE metadata implementing rules based on ISO 19115 and ISO 19119 that has been approved on 25th April 2008. One component of this Geoportal implemented in June 2008 is INSPIRE Metadata Editor, the main tool for spatial data and services metadata creation and management. However, several errors can be found in this implementation including differences between implementing rules and implementation itself. Results of both studies shows the same insufficiencies in concepts and implementation that can be considered as the barrier of metainformation reuse, especially in the field of crisis management. |
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