Geospatial Metadata 2.0 - An approach for Volunteered Geographic Information

Abstract

There has been greater tendency towards embracing the potential of the Web 2.0 in knowledge creation with user contributions becoming significantly important in the development of open data such as Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). An increasing number of volunteers which add value to geospatial data require effective ways of organising and providing access to value-added or newly created data. Metadata records are often unavailable for VGI, making it problematic for users to discover data in the VGI system. This paper discusses potential approaches that can be used to create metadata for VGI. This includes Linked Data, professionally created metadata and metadata created by voluntee..