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A Spatio-Temporal Model for the Manipulation of Lineage Metadata

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Nowadays one of the most successful applications of GIS is the management of a land-use cadastre. A lot of corporate GIS databases are in development, they support the legal management and distribution of cadastral maps. However, the propagation of geographical updates toward cadastral databases is still a methodological and technical problem to address in the context of large applications with many different users. This paper proposes a model based on lineage metadata that supports the management of geographical changes in the context of a corporate cadastre application. Geographical and cadastral changes are identified from an analysis of the French cadastre which acts as a case study for the development of our model. The lineage metadata model is based on the application of a direct acyclic graph that permits the management of the evolution of geographical objects and the generation of historical queries. The proposed model is specified and validated with the O 2 object-oriented database management system.

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  1. LIRMM, 161 rue Ada, 34392, Montpellier, France

    Laurent Spéry

  2. Naval Academy, Lanveoc-Poulmic, BP 600, 29240, Brest Naval, France

    Christophe Claramunt

  3. LIRMM and CNAM, 161 rue Ada, 34392, Montpellier, France

    Thérèse Libourel

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Spéry, L., Claramunt, C. & Libourel, T. A Spatio-Temporal Model for the Manipulation of Lineage Metadata. GeoInformatica 5, 51–70 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011459921552

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