Tomas Kliment
Faculty of Geodesy
University of Zagreb
Croatia

Biography
Dr. Tomáš Kliment currently holds the postdoctoral position granted by NEWFEWLPRO program and carries the research at the Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb. He received his PhD from the Slovak University of Technology. He worked in several projects related to Web GIS implementations at European, national and regional as well local and project specific scale with the main focus on geospatial metadata and data workflows and their automation. Tomáš has produced more than 30 scientific contributions in a form of peer reviewed journal papers, conference oral and poster presentations.

Abstract
Automation of Data and Metadata Workflows in a local SDI - the Case Study of the DEMLAS Project in Croatia

Co-Authors:
Vlado Cetl, Prof., University of Zagreb, Faculty of Geodesy
Mario Maier, Dr., University of Zagreb, Faculty of Geodesy

Publishing geospatial information resources on the Web provides a significant amount of advantages to their provider. How is the process of data publishing set-up? First in order to make data discoverable within an SDI, an appropriate level of metadata has to be created and made available via a geospatial catalogue. This usually differs among SDI levels, e.g. continental INSPIRE, National Croatian, or local projects which may have defined slightly or totally different syntactical and semantic metadata. Second aspect of geospatial data are standardized web service interfaces (e.g. OGC or Linked-Data). Finally the most important aspect is to ensure the semantic interoperability by exchange data using harmonized data models. To ensure these 3 aspects with satisfactory quantitative and qualitative results, automation of data and metadata workflows is inevitable. Within the frame of the Developing Multipurpose Land Administration System (DE-MLAS) project we will develop and present automated workflows for publishing data and metadata. The main objective is to sustain the in-house data workflows within the institutional use cases. The DEMLAS project aims at finding what needs to be done to transform a traditional land administration system into a modern MLAS, which can efficiently support land management to ensure sustainable development and preserve natural resources. Our hypothesis says that such a transformation can be done by improving two aspects of a LAS, its efficiency and its usability. The pilot area for the project is the Hvar island in Croatia, for which the Faculty of Geodesy in Zagreb has a considerable amount of spatial data, these data are used mainly for research and for teaching. Several different datasets are available e.g. cadastral maps, topographic maps, orthophoto, etc. With the present work we will report how the shift to a modern MLAS was performed, taking into account theme specific metadata crosswalks designed and implemented to be compliant with INSPIRE-MD-IR and Croatian national metadata profile.