The North-see and Baltic-see Coastal Information system NOKIS and disy Preludio, a complete web-based suite to manage ISO 19115 metadata

Wassilios Kazakos

Business Development, disy Informationssysteme GmbH (D)

It is nowadays commonly accepted that metadata and metadata systems are useful and necessary for organizational and inter-organizational networking, information flow and retrieval. ISO 19115 and its XML-representation ISO 19139 have become de facto standard for metadata descriptions in the environmental community. Many initiatives are formed to establish a wide network of metadata repositories. They collect metadata about geographic and non-geographic information or create broker architectures and systems for distributed retrieval through decentralized repositories.

In order to achieve the INSPIRE-goals on a large scale, easy to use tools have to be developed to manage ISO 19115 metadata. In this presentation we will focus on NOKIS an ongoing project developing the metadata-infrastructure for German northern coastal zones. Additionally we will present disy Preludio, a professional web-based suite to edit, search and manage ISO-19115 metadata. It includes an OGC-compliant CS-W-interface and can be flexibly tailored to several metadata-profiles. disy Preludio can be downloaded for free with a sample ISO-profile. Early next year a new version of disy Preludio will be launched.