Improving the documentation and findability of data services and repositories: A review of (meta)data management approaches

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Authors

ŘEZNÍK Tomáš RAES Lieven STOTT Andrew BART De Lathouwer PEREGO Andrea CHARVÁT Karel KAFKA Štěpán

Year of publication 2022
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Computers & Geosciences
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Faculty of Science

Citation
Web https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098300422001479?via%3Dihub
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2022.105194
Keywords Metadata review; Open linked metadata; Open linked data; Geodata; Findability; Search engines
Description This scientific review paper aims at challenging a common point of view on metadata as a necessary evil and something mandatory to the data creating and dataset publishing process. Metadata are instead presented as a crucial element to ensure the findability of data services and repositories. This paper describes a way through four levels of metadata management and publication, from default unstructured data, through schema-based metadata with literal values and/or URIs, towards linked open (meta)data providing explicit linkage between reliable data resources. Such research was conducted within the European Union's project PoliVisu. Special attention is given to the following: (1) guidance on publication aimed at the broad audience of search engine users and (2) the publication of geo (meta)data not only via standard technologies, such as the OGC Catalogue Service for Web and open data portals, but also through leading search engines (that are Schema.org-based).
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