A metadata service for managing spatial resources of coastal areas
Un service de métadonnées pour gérer les ressources spatiales des zones côtières
Abstract
Within the framework of the SYSCOLAG pluridisciplinary research programme on ICZM in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France, we propose an ISO-19115-compliant metadata service to share informational resources. Each resource is described using a metadata form. Each form consists of textually and spatially controlled terms which are stored in a single DBMS (Postgres and Postgis). The graphical user-interfaces contain the expert knowledge (thematic and spatial ontologies) and include a mapping service (SVG and OGC-compliant WMS-WFS) that allows spatial and thematic queries to be addressed to the metadata service.