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 New Approaches to Cataloguing, Querying and Browsing Geospatial Metadata
Link to this resource The main objective of our GeoLens project is to fully leverage geospatial metadata to aid discovery and retrieval of geospatial data. Our ultimate goal is to make NASA's remote sensing imagery and other geospatial data available to the broader public on the Internet. At the core of our solution is the GeoLens Catalog Server, designed to support federation of distributed catalogs and to provide seamless interoperability between different metadata standards. Another important component is the GeoLens Metadata Browser, a client-side application designed specifically to exploit the unique features of our Catalog Server. A prototype implementation of the GeoLens framework is available. We consider this work to be a significant step towards building a true federation of heterogeneous catalogs.  | This work comes from the database community and is significant in its requirement for metadata schema integration. Unfortunately this paper is 3 years old, the project seems to have folded (the web site is now no longer available). The principle author is now a director of Information Architects, whose Metaphoria product uses metadata annotations to deal with legacy data and legacy data schemas (see <a href='http://www.ia.com/content/devforum/techinfo/docs/technical-whitepaper.htm'>http://www.ia.com/content/devforum/techinfo/docs/technical-whitepaper.htm</a> for more details). |  |
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