Employing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques for Improving the Discovery of Geospatial Resources on the Web

Katumba, Samy; Coetzee, Serena

doi:10.3390/ijgi6090284

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“…One approach is to enhance web crawler functionality so that it can discover geospatial metadata in geoportals [55,56] or enhance a search engine's capabilities for assessing the fitness of use of geospatial datasets [57]. Another approach is to include geospatial metadata in HTML pages, which are readily accessible by web crawlers [58,59]. Such pages could be automatically generated, as Fugazza et.…”

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Geographic Information Metadata—An Outlook from the International Standardization Perspective

Brodeur¹,

Coetzee

Dankó

et al. 2019

IJGI

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Geographic information metadata provides a detailed description of geographic information resources. Well before digital data emerged, metadata were shown in the margins of paper maps to inform the reader of the name of the map, the scale, the orientation of the magnetic North, the projection used, the coordinate systems, the legend, and so on. Metadata were used to communicate practical information for the proper use of maps. When geographic information entered the digital era with geographic information systems, metadata was also collected digitally to describe datasets and the dataset collections for various purposes. Initially, metadata were collected and saved in digital files by data producers for their own specific needs. The sharing of geographic datasets that required producers to provide metadata with the dataset to guide proper use of the dataset—map scale, data sources, extent, datum, coordinate reference system, etc. Because of issues with sharing and no common understanding of metadata requirements, the need for metadata standardization was recognized by the geographic information community worldwide. The ISO technical committee 211 was created in 1994 with the scope of standardization in the field of digital geographic information to support interoperability. In the early years of the committee, standardization of metadata was initiated for different purposes, which culminated in the ISO 19115:2003 standard. Now, there are many ISO Geographic information standards that covers the various aspect of geographic information metadata. This paper traces an illustration of the development and evolution of the requirements and international standardization activities of geographic information metadata standards, profiles and resources, and how these attest to facilitating the discovery, evaluation, and appropriate use of geographic information in various contexts.

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Geographic Information Metadata—An Outlook from the International Standardization Perspective

Brodeur¹,

Coetzee

Dankó

et al. 2019

IJGI

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“…Future work will be oriented towards enhancing the analytical capability of the geoportal, dynamic visualization, 3-dimensional visualization, metadata cataloguing, provenance tracking, user feedback functionality, and enhancement of the search functionality using grid-enabled search techniques and web crawlers. Katumba [34] provides a valuable overview of advanced search techniques optimized to improve the discovery of geospatial data on the internet. Given the sheer volume and variety of data to be stored on the geoportal, cloudification of the geoportal will be considered.…”

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Towards the Development of Agenda 2063 Geo-Portal to Support Sustainable Development in Africa

Mhangara

Lamba

Mapurisa

et al. 2019

IJGI

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The successful implementation of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 strategic development blueprint is critical for the attainment of economic development, social prosperity, political stability, protection, and regional integration in Africa. Agenda 2063 is a strategic and endogenous development plan that seeks to strategically and competitively reposition the African continent to ensure poverty eradication and equitable people-centric socio-economic and technological transformation. Its impact areas include wealth creation, shared prosperity, sustainable environment, and transformative capacities. Monitoring and evaluation systems play a critical role in collecting, recording, storing, integrating, and evaluating and tracking performance information in the implementation of longer-term strategic plans. The usage of the geographic information system (GIS) as a monitoring and evaluation tool has gained traction in the last few decades due to its ability to support the collection, integration, storage, analysis, output, and distribution of location-based data. The advent of web-based GIS provides a powerful online platform to collect, integrate, discover, use and share geospatial data, information, and services related to sustainable development. In this paper, we aim to describe the implementation, architectural structural design, and the functionality of the pilot Agenda 2063 geoportal. The live prototype internet-based geoportal is intended to facilitate data collection, management, integration, analysis, and visualization of Agenda 2063 development indicators. This geoportal is meant to support the planning, implementation, and monitoring of the Agenda 2063 goals at the continental, regional, and national levels. As our results show, we successfully demonstrated that a web-geoportal is a powerful interactive platform to upload, access, explore, visualize, analyse, and disseminate geospatial data related to the sustainable development of the African continent. Although in the pilot phase, the geoportal demonstrates the primary functionality of geoportals in terms of its capability to discover, analyse, share, and download geospatial datasets.

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“…As a result, open SDI data in a geoportal may be "invisible" to the general public and to general-purpose web search engines. As a possible solution, [105] published metadata about typical SDI datasets in formats that could be crawled by web search engines. In this way, open data inside a geoportal becomes discoverable by the general public.…”

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Open Geospatial Software and Data: A Review of the Current State and A Perspective into the Future

Coetzee

Ivánová

Mitášová

et al. 2020

IJGI

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All over the world, organizations are increasingly considering the adoption of open source software and open data. In the geospatial domain, this is no different, and the last few decades have seen significant advances in this regard. We review the current state of open source geospatial software, focusing on the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) software ecosystem and its communities, as well as three kinds of open geospatial data (collaboratively contributed, authoritative and scientific). The current state confirms that openness has changed the way in which geospatial data are collected, processed, analyzed, and visualized. A perspective on future developments, informed by responses from professionals in key organizations in the global geospatial community, suggests that open source geospatial software and open geospatial data are likely to have an even more profound impact in the future.

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Employing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques for Improving the Discovery of Geospatial Resources on the Web

Cited by 16 publications

References 19 publications

Geographic Information Metadata—An Outlook from the International Standardization Perspective

Geographic Information Metadata—An Outlook from the International Standardization Perspective

Towards the Development of Agenda 2063 Geo-Portal to Support Sustainable Development in Africa

Open Geospatial Software and Data: A Review of the Current State and A Perspective into the Future

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