Abstract. The need for location-based services has motivated an important research effort in the efficient processing of location-dependent queries. Most of the existing approaches...
Metadata registries comprising sets of categories to be used in data collections exist in many fields. The purpose of a metadata registry is to facilitate data exchange and intero...
: As the geographic information system (GIS) community grows, more and more people needs to share geographic information. As modern GIS data is stored in geographic databases their...
Metadata is needed to facilitate data sharing among geospatial information communities. Geographic Metadata Standards are available but tend to be general and complex in nature an...
: Online communities are islands of people and topics that are not interlinked. Complementary discussions exist on disparate systems but it is currently difficult to exploit the av...
John G. Breslin, Stefan Decker, Andreas Harth, Uld...