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Geodata Discovery Service

TAP Endorsed Specification
Description
 

A Geodata Discovery Service provides a mechanism to:

  1. Search Metadata for Geodata; and
  2. retrieve detailed information (metadata) that describes a geodata resource, in order to evaluate its suitability to meet a need.

Geodata includes all types of geographic (or geospatial) data entities. Examples of geodata are:

  1. a collection of related geographic features, such as the road network of British Columbia;
  2. a satellite image; or
  3. a collection of geodata products, such as a collection of Landsat-5 images over Canada.

Currently, the Geodata Discovery Service is based on the U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee's "Z39.50 Application Profile for Geospatial Metadata" or "GEO". GEO is based on the ANSI/NISO Z39.50-1995 Information Retrieval (Z39.50): Application Service Definition and Protocol Specification. The GEO profile includes not only the specifications for Z39.50 search service, but also the specifications for the metadata, as well as other aspects of a GEO-conformant server that apply to the Geodata Discovery Service.

Complete description (z39.50)

A new stateless version of the Geodata Discovery Service is in development, and is intended to replace the existing Z39.50 based service..

Complete description (stateless)


Implementation Specification
 
Version
Date
Location
GEO 2.2  
2000.05.27  

Geoconnections
geo22.htm

Blue Angel Technologies
geo22.htm

 
Z39.50-1992  
1992.07.28  

Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
html

 

Status
 
2001.06.12 Endorsed by the Geoconnections Technology Advisory Panel

Other Info
 

This service is a heartbeat service that is available 24/7.

The current Geodata Discovery Service uses the FGDC GEO profile (see Metadata for Geodata.

A next generation Geodata Discovery Service is under development. It will use HTTP/XML instead of z39.50.

effective 2002.03.21