Scientific Journal of Earth Science

March 2014, Volume 4, Issue 1, PP.1-10

An XML/Z39.50 Based Approach for Geospatial

Metadata Organization
Zhou Huang1, Xia Peng2#, Xuetong Xie3, Yong Zhao4, Yiran Chen1
1. Institute of remote sensing and GIS, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
2. Institute of Tourism, Beijing Union University, Beijing 100101, China
3. School of Geographical Sciences, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China
4. Sinopec Research Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Beijing 100101, China
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Email: ivy_px@163.com

Abstract
With the rapid development of Internet and spatial information technologies, the sharing issue for distributed and multi-scale
geospatial data has become one of research hotspot topics in the field of both geoscience and information. Geospatial metadata
refers to descriptive information about geospatial data, and can be deemed as the equivalent of geospatial data "directory"
information. Thus effective metadata organization approach is the realization base of geospatial data sharing and remote
geoscience knowledge discovery under the Internet environment. This paper provides an overview of general methods on
geospatial metadata organization, and then proposes a new XML/Z39.50 based approach for geospatial metadata organization. The
method uses XML technologies for data storage and expression, and adopts Z39.50 middleware technologies to eliminate
systematic differences between heterogeneous metadata nodes. Both theoretical analysis and empirical study show that our method
can solve the integration problem of heterogeneous geospatial metadata and ensure data security. Furthermore, the approach is
proved to be efficient and scalable as well.
Keywords: Geospatial Metadata Sharing; XML; Z39.50 Protocol

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