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Catalogue Information Model

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Catalogue information schema; Catalogue metadata schema; Registry information model

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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 (OGC) 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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Correspondence to Liping Di .

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Di, L., Bai, Y. (2017). Catalogue Information Model. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_119

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