Creating and using the urgent metadata catalogue and thesaurus

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 360, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 223-232

  Tindall, C Isabella ^a   Moore, Roger V ^a   Bosley, John D ^a   Swetnam, Ruth D ^a   Bowie, Rod ^b   De Rudder, Anne ^c  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data management; Datasets; Metadata; Thesaurus; URGENT; Web search

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERGONOMICS; METADATA; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DATASETS; NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL DATA FRAMEWORK (NGDF) STANDARD; SCIENTIFIC DATABASE; THESAURUS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; AUTOMATION; DATA BASE; DISCIPLINES RELATING TO BIOMEDICINE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICE; LINGUISTICS; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; STANDARD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; URBAN AREA; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DOCUMENTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FACTUAL DATABASE; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; POLLUTANT; UNITED KINGDOM;

CATALOGING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GREAT BRITAIN; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 33746465483     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.08.036     Document Type: Article

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