GENESI-DR e-Infrastructure

As a heterogeneous digital Earth Science repository e-Infrastructure, GENESI-DR establishes a dedicated infrastructure providing transparent access and allowing Earth Science communities to easily and quickly derive objective information and share knowledge based on all environmentally sensitive domains.

It adopts a common subset of well-known standards for geographic metadata which has been agreed in the open source geospatial community. This subset and the search interface that it implements are designed to comply with the Implementing Rules for Discovery Services in the European Union drafted by the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe. The system supporting GENESI-DR provides quality solutions for the machine-readable and repeatable properties of data: unique identifiers which can be used to annotate the provenance and processing history of data sets; URLs to represent license constraints; contact details for people responsible for data sets.