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Everything about Geospatial metadata
Metadata used for describing geospatial data
Geospatial metadata is a type of metadata applicable to geographic data and information. Such objects may be stored in a geographic information system (GIS) or may simply be documents, data-sets, images or other objects, services, or related items that exist in some other native environment but whose features may be appropriate to describe in a (geographic) metadata catalog. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Geospatial metadataA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: OpenGeoMetadata Aardvark: A New Geospatial Metadata Application ProfileInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Creating FGDC and NBII metadata with Metavist 2005The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Augmenting geospatial data provenance through metadata tracking in geospatial service chainingCited 51 times
- Go sideways: Catalogue Service for the WebA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Spatial data infrastructureA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Augmenting geospatial data provenance through metadata tracking in geospatial service chaining
Geospatial Open Data Usage and Metadata Quality
Automating geospatial metadata generation—An integrated data management and documentation approach
GeMInA, Genomic Metadata for Infectious Agents, a geospatial surveillance pathogen database
The BonaRes metadata schema for geospatial soil-agricultural research data – Merging INSPIRE and DataCite metadata schemes
Geospatial Metadata 2.0 – An approach for Volunteered Geographic Information
Deciding on Fitness for Use: Evaluating the Utility of Sample Maps as an Element of Geospatial Metadata
Usability of Geospatial Metadata or Space‐Time Matters
🆕 Influential since 2022
OpenGeoMetadata Aardvark: A New Geospatial Metadata Application Profile
Climate Risk STAC: A living metadata catalog of geospatial data for climate risk assessments
GeoWebCln: An Intensive Cleaning Architecture for Geospatial Metadata
From Stars to LETTERS: A Multi-Dimensional, FAIR-Aligned Framework for Geospatial Metadata Quality Evaluation
Advancing geospatial data infrastructure in Dataverse via metadata automation, interactive tools and LLM case study
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Creating FGDC and NBII metadata with Metavist 2005David J. Rugg, United States. Forest Service. North Central Research Station · 2004
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
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- Open Geospatial Consortium The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international voluntary consensus standards organization that develops and maintains international standards…
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- GeoAPI GeoAPI is free software providing a set of Java interfaces for GIS applications. GeoAPI interfaces are derived from the abstract model and concrete specificatio…
- ISO/TC 211 Geographic information/Geomatics ISO/TC 211 is a standard technical committee formed within ISO, tasked with covering the areas of digital geographic information (such as used by geographic…
- Web Coverage Service The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard defines a web-based interface for the retrieval of coverages—that is…
- Coverage data A coverage is the digital representation of some spatio-temporal phenomenon. ISO 19123 provides the definition: [a] feature that acts as a function to…