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Improving geographic information retrieval in spatial data infrastructures

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In recent years, spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) have gained great popularity as a solution to facilitate interoperable access to geospatial data offered by different agencies. In order to enhance the data retrieval process, current infrastructures usually offer a catalog service. Nevertheless, such catalog services still have important limitations that make it difficult for users to find the geospatial data that they are interested in. Some current catalog drawbacks include the use of a single record to describe all the feature types offered by a service, the lack of formal means to describe the semantics of the underlying data, and the lack of an effective ranking metric to organize the results retrieved from a query. Aiming to overcome these limitations, this article proposes SESDI (Semantically-Enabled Spatial Data Infrastructures), which is framework that reuses techniques of classic information retrieval to improve geographic data retrieval in a SDI. Moreover, the framework proposes several ranking metrics to solve spatial, semantic, temporal and multidimensional queries.

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The authors acknowledge the support provided by Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Paraíba (IFPB), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) and Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG), Brazilian agencies in charge of fostering research and development.

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  1. Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Paraíba, José Antônio da Silva 300, Jardim Oásis, 58900000, Cajazeiras, Paraíba, Brazil

    Fabio Gomes de Andrade

  2. Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Rua Aprígio Veloso, 882, Bodocongó, 58109970, Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil

    Cláudio de Souza Baptista

  3. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Avenida Presidente Antônio Carlos, 6627, 31270010, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Clodoveu Augusto Davis Jr.

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de Andrade, F.G., de Souza Baptista, C. & Davis, C.A. Improving geographic information retrieval in spatial data infrastructures. Geoinformatica 18, 793–818 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10707-014-0202-x

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