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A Study on the Mechanism of Geographic Data Searching and Clearinghouse on the Internet

Internet has become the most extensible media of data exchange and communication in the world because computer science and technology are more and more popular. The Geographic Information Systems¡]GIS¡^are also developed on the Internet. However, using existing mechanism of data searching on the Internet cannot search data in Web GIS. We can only browse data but not access. This situation makes Web GIS as an isolated island. Users fail to know where and what kinds of data are provided, and these data also cannot be shared.
The most important objective of the research is to build an effective mechanism of searching and clearinghouse on the Internet. This mechanism can help computer overcome difficulties in reading and understanding geographic data that are composed of maps and images, and then geographic data can be searched and shared easily as text data. The research will try to create metadata by XML that are complied with FGDC standard. By using two of the XML characteristics, i.e. creating tags and describing data, the computer can retrieve information automatically from metadata on the Internet. Lastly, the geographic search engine and clearinghouse that the research built will collect and integrate geographic metadata to systematically facilitate users finding geographic data they need through Internet, and achieve the objectives of geographic data search and clearinghouse on the Internet.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0831102-210029
Date31 August 2002
CreatorsWei, Ko-Ming
ContributorsTian-Yuan Shih, Liang-Hwei Lee, Shiahn-Wern Shyue, Jung-Hong Hong, Chung-Nan Lee
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0831102-210029
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