Ottimizzare i Metadati Geospaziali per il Web Semantico

In the geospatial realm, data annotation and discovery rely on a number of ad-hoc formats and protocols. Metadata are at the heart of the discovery process and nevertheless they are often neglected or encoded in formats that either are not aimed at efficient retrieval of resources or are plainly outdated. Instead, our workflow for metadata management envisages i) editing via customizable web-based forms, ii) encoding of records in any XML application profile, iii) translation into RDF (involving the semantic lift of metadata records), and finally iv) publication as Linked Data and back-translation into the original XML format with added discovery and internationalization capabilities.