A model driven approach for the development of metadata editors, applicability to the annotation of geographic information resources
Metadata are a key element for the development of information infrastructures because they facilitate the semantic description of contents and services. However, the diversity and heterogeneity of metadata standards have become a barrier for the generation of these metadata. Many metadata editors are not useful anymore because they do not support the latest version of metadata standards or the new profiles arisen in the market. Thus, this work proposes a model driven approach for the development of metadata editors, more focused on the generic treatment of metadata models than on the development of specific edition forms for a reduced set of metadata standards. This approach has been tested in the context of Spatial Data Infrastructures for the development of an Open Source tool called CatMDEdit Additionally, the approach could be also applied to improve the efficiency of any metadata editor using a metamodeling development strategy. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
metadata annotation spatial data infrastructures metamodeling sdi model driven engineering mde model driven architecture mda skos