Management of nested collections of resources in spatial data infrastructures

Author

Nogueras-Iso, J. ; Zarazaga-Soria, F.J. ; Muro-Medrano, P.R.

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. & Syst. Eng. Dept., Zaragoza Univ., Spain

fYear

2004

fDate

30 Aug.-3 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

878

Lastpage

882

Abstract

The management of collections of resources is an important issue in digital libraries. The modelling of collections provides added-value because they facilitate the organization of resources and special services may be tailored to the characteristics of the collection. We provide a metadata solution to manage nested collections in digital library catalogs, which is based on XML technologies and concepts derived from knowledge bases. The management of collections is particularly relevant in the context of geolibraries and spatial data infrastructures. Given the high volumes of geographic information, it is very frequent to find collections that arise as a result of the fragmentation of geographic resources into datasets of manageable size and similar scale. However, the concepts presented here are extensible to any type of digital library collections.

Keywords

Internet; XML; cataloguing; deductive databases; digital libraries; geographic information systems; visual databases; XML technologies; data collection management; digital library catalogs; digital library collections; geographic information systems; geographic resources; geolibraries; knowledge bases; metadata; spatial data infrastructures; Catalogs; Computer science; Digital elevation models; Knowledge management; Resource management; Software libraries; Systems engineering and theory; Technology management; Tiles; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2004. Proceedings. 15th International Workshop on

ISSN

1529-4188

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2195-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DEXA.2004.1333588

Filename

1333588