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The DIGMAP geo-temporal web gazetteer service [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper presents the DIGMAP geo-temporal Web gazetteer service, a system providing access to names of places, historical periods, and associated geo-temporal information.
Borbinha, José   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Usability of Geospatial Metadata or Space‐Time Matters [PDF]

open access: yesBulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 1999
Little is known about how end users actually employ metadata to evaluate relevance of geospatial information objects and how this might differ from meeting non-geospatial information needs. While other studies have considered users in related contexts, we could not find any that applied well-established usability techniques to geospatial metadata usage
Bruce Fraser, Myke Gluck
openaire   +1 more source

‘Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociolinguistic research has long documented the appropriation of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) across media including film, music and advertising. In this article, we add to this body of work by exploring the digital recontextualisation of a subset of AAVE features as ‘TikTok/internet language’.
Christian Ilbury, Rianna Walcott
wiley   +1 more source

EDI – A Template-Driven Metadata Editor for Research Data

open access: yesJournal of Open Research Software, 2016
EDI is a general purpose, template-driven metadata editor for creating XML-based descriptions. Originally aimed at defining rich and standard metadata for geospatial resources, It can be easily customised in order to comply with a broad range of schemata
Fabio Pavesi   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

A multi-service data management platform for scientific oceanographic products [PDF]

open access: yesNatural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2017
An efficient, secure and interoperable data platform solution has been developed in the TESSA project to provide fast navigation and access to the data stored in the data archive, as well as a standard-based metadata management support.
A. D'Anca   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Open Navigation Surface Project [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Many hydrographic and oceanographic agencies have moved or are moving towards gridded bathymetric products. However, there is no accepted format to allow these grids to be exchanged while maintaining data and metadata integrity.
Brennan, Rick T   +9 more
core   +3 more sources

Documenting biodiversity with digital data: comparing and contrasting the efficacy of specimen‐based and observation‐based approaches

open access: yesNew Phytologist, EarlyView.
Summary Digitized herbarium specimens and iNaturalist observations provide invaluable plant biodiversity data. Combining these two data sources could create a more holistic representation of local biodiversity; however, understanding biases inherent to each is critical to determine how to best combine and utilize these data.
Rebecca C. Wilcox   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Search Engine for Open Geospatial Consortium Web Services Improving Discoverability through Natural Language Processing-Based Processing and Ranking

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
The improvement of search engines for geospatial data on the World Wide Web has been a subject of research, particularly concerning the challenges in discovering and utilizing geospatial web services.
Elia Ferrari   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

One store has all? - the backend story of managing geospatial information toward an easy discovery

open access: yesIASSIST Quarterly, 2019
Geospatial data includes many formats, varying from historical paper maps, to digital information collected by various sensors. Many libraries have started the efforts to build a geospatial data portal to connect users with the various information.
Ningning Nicole Kong
doaj   +1 more source

A practitioners guide to managing geoscience information [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In the UK the Natural Environment Research Council manages its scientific data holdings through a series of Environmental Data Centres1 Within the Earth Science sector the National Geoscience Data Centre covering Atmosphere, Bioinformatics, Earth ...
Giles, Jeremy
core  

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