Exploring Open Data Portals for Geospatial Data Discovery Purposes

Matthias Hinz () and Ralf Bill ()
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Matthias Hinz: University of Rostock
Ralf Bill: University of Rostock

A chapter in Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics, 2021, pp 147-162 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Open Data has recently caught much attention from research, politics, and the economy as a resource that fuels innovation and growth. As more data becomes public within an ever-increasing amount of data portals, it can be hard for users of Open Data to keep an overview and find what they are seeking. Therefore, this paper evaluates Open Data portals by their metadata for getting insights about their content and thematic disposition, including measures of interest for the geospatial domain. It summarizes case studies of nine data portals from the German-speaking area of Europe, ranging between national, regional, and local scopes. At these examples, strengths and problems of current data catalogs are shown as well as new perspectives on their content that may improve future data discovery applications.

Keywords: Open data; DCAT; Metadata; Geodata (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-61969-5_11

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