The quality of thesauri used in geographic metadata

Authors: Díaz-Corona, Dayany; Lacasta, Javier; Nogueras-Iso, Javier
Year: 2017
Venue: AGILE 2017 conference, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 9-12 May 2017
Link: https://agile-online.org/images/conference_2017/Proceedings2017/shortpapers/82_ShortPaper_in_PDF.pdf
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Abstract:
Although the use of controlled vocabularies such as thesauri are highly recommended in geographic metadata to facilitate the discovery in Spatial Data Infrastructures, this use is not as common as expected. One of the reasons for not taking advantage of these thesauri may be that there are some issues in the quality of these resources. This work analyses the quality of some of the most frequently used thesauri in geographic metadata, recommending some possible improvements.