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Summary
Summary
Discovery of Geospatial Resources: Methodologies, Technologies, and Emergent Applications aims to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research finding. This reference is written for professionals who want to improve the understanding of geospatial discovery methodologies and technologies, as well as techniques to design and deploy geospatial resources in Information Infrastructures.
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Library Journal Review
This academic work by Diaz (geospatial science), Carlos Granell (new imaging technologies), and Joaquin Huerta (information systems, all at Universitat Jaume I de Castellon, Spain) discusses "attempts to push forward the automated discovery frontier in the thematic area of geospatial resources." Essays, presented in sections on methodologies, technologies, and emergent applications, describe practices in, for example, "Automatic Metadata Generation for Geospatial Resource Discovery," "Describing and Selecting Collections of Georeferenced Media Items in Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval Systems," "New Discovery Methodologies in GIS: Improving the Information Retrieval Process," and "Data Mining Location-Based Social Networks for Geospatial Discovery." The entries are accompanied by lengthy bibliographies, and the book closes with a valuable 26-page cumulative bibliography. Verdict This title will be of interest to librarians pursuing such tasks as text and data mining and who are comfortable reading scientific tables and diagrams. It will be at home in collections large enough to hold information science reference. Otherwise, it is best suited to practitioners in the geospatial community who will value the editors' gathering of straightforward, scientific profiles of attempts to make their field more efficient.-Henrietta Thornton-Verma, Library Journal (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
