Searching for metadata using knowledge bases and topic maps in Spatial Data Infrastructures

• Published in: Earth science informatics Vol. 2; no. 4; pp. 235 - 247
• Main Authors: da Silva, Odilon Corrêa, Lisboa-Filho, Jugurta, Braga, José Luís, Borges, Karla A. V
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Berlin/Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag 01-12-2009; Springer-Verlag; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Earth System Sciences; Environmental protection; Geographic information systems; Information retrieval; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Metadata; Ontology; Research Article; Simulation and Modeling; Space Exploration and Astronautics; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics; Sustainable development; User interface; Amazon Basin; South America, Amazon R; Metadata; Information retrieval systems; Thesauri; Spatial data infrastructure; Topic maps
• ISSN: 1865-0481; 1865-0473; 1865-0481
• DOI: 10.1007/s12145-009-0039-2

Concern for environmental issues has become a reality in all sectors of society, mainly among researchers and professionals who work directly with environmental status. In this context, several studies have been undertaken on sustainable development of the Brazilian Amazon, generating a large amount of data and information. Environmental area characterization involves the knowledge about their natural, economic and social resources, as well as understanding the interaction and correlation among them. Such interdisciplinary character requires new solutions for knowledge representation. This study proposes to minimize metadata recovery problems in Spatial Data Infrastructures by using Topic Maps and Thesaurus. This approach applied to an interface aims to allow users to visually recover information from metadata catalogs.