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User-Friendly Geoportal Interfaces for Geospatial Resource Discovery

User-Friendly Geoportal Interfaces for Geospatial Resource Discovery

Victor Pascual Ayats
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781466609457|ISBN10: 1466609451|EISBN13: 9781466609464
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0945-7.ch013
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Ayats, Victor Pascual. "User-Friendly Geoportal Interfaces for Geospatial Resource Discovery." Discovery of Geospatial Resources: Methodologies, Technologies, and Emergent Applications, edited by Laura Díaz, et al., IGI Global, 2012, pp. 261-276. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0945-7.ch013

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Ayats, V. P. (2012). User-Friendly Geoportal Interfaces for Geospatial Resource Discovery. In L. Díaz, C. Granell, & J. Huerta (Eds.), Discovery of Geospatial Resources: Methodologies, Technologies, and Emergent Applications (pp. 261-276). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0945-7.ch013

Chicago

Ayats, Victor Pascual. "User-Friendly Geoportal Interfaces for Geospatial Resource Discovery." In Discovery of Geospatial Resources: Methodologies, Technologies, and Emergent Applications, edited by Laura Díaz, Carlos Granell, and Joaquín Huerta, 261-276. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0945-7.ch013

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Abstract

The Spatial Data Infrastructure of Catalonia (IDEC) was launched in 2002. From the beginning, the Metadata Catalog (MC) service has been considered as one of the main pieces of the infrastructure. Building a metadata catalog is important for any Spatial Data Infrastructure to foster resource interoperability and integration. In addition to organizing, classifying, and sorting metadata records, one of the hardest parts in the IDEC was to design web applications that allow users to easily discover and access such geospatial resources. This chapter reviews the different trends in building friendly user interfaces of web applications to search and discovery metadata records through the evolution of user interface of the IDEC Geoportal.

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