Global Drought Monitoring Service through the GEOSS Architecture ...

Architectural Implementation Pilot, Phase 3 Version: 2.0
Global Drought Monitoring and European Drought
Observatory-Water SBA Engineering Report
Date: 11/Feb/2011
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Drought metadata were defined, as documented in D.5.2, Metadata Catalogue for
Drought Information (J Nogueras, et. Al. 49
At the start of the project only two WP5 partners (CNIG and CHE) had metadata
catalogues describing drought related resources together with other types of resources, while
some of the other partners had no metadata available for their drought related resources they use.
In addition to this, CNIG and CHE catalogues have been included in the WP2 broker (GI-Cat),
together with this WP5 drought catalogue, so all metadata resources available from WP5 partners
are accessible in a distributed way.
The technology of this catalogue has been developed by the Universidad de Zaragoza.
The EuroGEOSS drought catalogue has been registered as a service accessible through the
EuroGEOSS discovery broker component. 50 Thanks to the connection to the IOC brokering
framework, EuroGEOSS users can discover drought related resources in a distributed way.
49 www.eurogeoss.eu
50 http://217.108.210.73/broker/
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