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Catalogue Information Model

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Encyclopedia of GIS

Synonyms

Catalogue metadata schema; Catalogue information schema; Registry information model

Definition

The catalogue information model is a conceptual model that specifies how metadata is organized within the catalogue. It defines a formal structure representing catalogued resources and their interrelationships, thereby providing a logical schema for browsing and searching the contents in a catalogue.

There are multiple and slightly different definitions of the catalogue information model used by various communities. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) defines the catalogue information model in the OGC Catalogue Services Specification [1] as an abstract information model that specifies a BNF grammar for a minimal query language, a set of core queryable attributes (names, definitions, conceptual data types), and a common record format that defines the minimal set of elements that should be returned in the brief and summary element sets. The Organization for the Advancement of...

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  1. OGC. OGC™ Catalogue Services Specification, OGC 04–021r3. http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=5929&Version=2 . Accessed 13 Sept 2007

  2. OASIS. ebXML Registry Information Model (ebRIM). http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/regrep/documents/2.0/specs/ebrim.pdf. Accessed 13 Sept 2007

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  10. OGC. EO Products Extension Package for ebRIM (ISO/TS 15000–3) Profile of CSW 2.0. OGC 06–131. http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=17689. Accessed 13 Sept 2007

  11. OGC. OGC Adopts ebRIM for Catalogues. http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/655. Accessed 13 Sept 2007

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  1. Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems (CSISS), George Mason University, Greenbelt, MD, USA

    Liping Di & Yuqi Bai

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  1. Liping Di
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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Shashi Shekhar (McKnight Distinguished University Professor) (McKnight Distinguished University Professor)

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School Newark and New Brunswick Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA

    Hui Xiong (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

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Di, L., Bai, Y. (2008). Catalogue Information Model. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_119

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