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Multi-Domain Retrieval of Geospatial Data Sources Implementing a Semantic Catalogue

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International audience; Nowadays, the expertise of a user plays an important role in the search and retrieval in the information systems that usually combines general and specialized knowledge in the construction of queries. In addition, most of the queries systems are currently restricted on specific domains. Tackling these issues, we propose a methodology that implements a semantic catalogue in order to provide a smart queries system for retrieving data sources on the web by means of the extension of the user expertise. We propose the combination of a query expansion method, and the use of similarity measures and controlled vocabularies. Thus, it allows the system to recommend data sources that are able to fit the need of a user in terms of information. To reach this goal, we exploit standard such as OWL from the W3C and the CSW GeoCatalogue from the OGC.