The COVID-19 pandemic has been truly global and multidimensional in scope, with
ramifications extending well beyond health. Yet, unlike previous crises, there is hope that …

Discovering and accessing hydrologic and climate data for use in research or water
management can be a difficult task that consumes valuable time and personnel resources …

We have rich information resources for materials science and engineering-raw
measurement data, computational simulation methods, digitized handbooks, and digital …

In this paper we focus on the semantic heterogeneity problem as one of the main challenges
in current Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs). We first report on the state of the art in reducing …

The main barriers to make full use of the wealth of available online data is that users are
unable to rapidly locate relevant web services and retrieve appropriate data sets from …

Simply placing electronic geoscience resources such as datasets, methods, ontologies,
workflows and articles in a digital library or cyberinfrastructure does not mean that they will …

Geological data–records of physical structures and substances of the earth, their history, and
the processes associated with them–are not only essential for studying our mother planet …

Although Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) were not designed for multimedia
processing, they speed up the development of distributed multimedia applications by …

The ability to share and combine geographic data from different information sources in a
consistent way is a key issue for enabling successful implementation of Spatial Data …

In the last decade, many projects have tried to deal with the integration of biological
resources. Web portals have flourished online, each providing data from a public provider …