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Finding geodata that otherwise would have been forgotten- GeoXchange: a SDI-based portal for sharing free geodata

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Sven Tschirner,

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GIR '05: Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Geographic information retrieval

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1096985.1096996

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A key problem of small organizations like departments of geography, ecology, geodesy, architecture, landscape planning, archeology etc is, that they also produce - from time to time - some spatial data - mostly in small projects or master theses or PhD thesis. This data is usually not included in any spatial data infrastructure. Therefore we developed a GeoPortal - the geoXchange Portal - that gives the possibility to store, annotate and share such geodata produced by small institutions that do not have the resources to build up a SDI on their own. The portal is realized using open standards of OGC, ISO and W3C. It allows describing the geodata sets with metadata according to ISO 19115 (CORE) - as well as Dublin Core. This metadata can be queried using a Web Interface to an OGC conformant Catalog Service (CSW) and also using a graphical map interface (bounding-box) through a Web Map Service (WMS). Geodata itself can be uploaded to the portal directly though a transactional Web Feature Service (WFS) through which it also can be accessed. Uploaded data is made automatically available via the map query interface, too, in order to allow visual queries.

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Finding geodata that otherwise would have been forgotten- GeoXchange: a SDI-based portal for sharing free geodata
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Digital libraries and archives
2. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Digital libraries and archives

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