EDINA newsline
December 2007: Volume 12 Issue 4
The Geospatial Application Profile (GAP) project builds upon earlier work for the Go-Geo! Portal. As part of that project, EDINA has developed the UK Academic Geospatial Metadata Application Profile (UK AGMAP) to support the documentation and discovery of spatial datasets across higher and further education. UK AGMAP is based on the international geographic information metadata standard ISO 19115.
The GAP project will develop a Dublin Core Application Profile for cross-searching repositories for geospatial resources analogous to the recently published e-prints Scholarly Works Application Profile (SWAP).
The plan is that portals such as the Intute Repositories Search Project, part of the JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme, will make use of this profile to enhance their search service for content held within UK repositories and to examine the issues that surround retrieval. The first iteration of their work had focused on e-prints (research papers) only. GAP extends the work into the area of geospatial data to meet the discovery and descriptive requirements of the geospatial community.