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Recommended Reading

  1. ANZLIC Metadata Working Group. ANZLIC Metadata Guidelines: Core metadata elements for geographic data in Australia and New Zealand, Version 2. http://www.anzlic.org.au/get/2358011755.

  2. Major G, Olsen L. A short history of the DIF. On GCMD website, http://gcmd.nasa.gov/User/difguide/.

  3. Metadata Ad Hoc Working Group Federal Geographic Data Committee. FGDC website, http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/csdgm/.

  4. Ordnance – National Mapping Agency of Great Britain. Ordnance Survey Ontologies. Ordnance Website, http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/ontology/.

  5. Wolfe R. MIT Libraries website, http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/metadata/standards/fgdc.html.

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

    Buğra Gedik

  2. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA

    Buğra Gedik

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. IIT, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden

    Manfred Jeusfeld

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Gedik, B. (2018). Geospatial Metadata. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_908

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