期刊名称：GI_FORUM - Journal for Geographic Information Science
电子版ISSN：2308-1708
出版年度：2013
页码：6-14
DOI：10.1553/giscience2013s6
出版社：ÖAW Verlag, Wien
摘要：IDE-OTALEX is the first crossborder spatial data infrastructure between contiguous Portuguese(Alentejo and Centro) and Spanish (Extremadura) regions. IDE-OTALEX was implementedto share official geographic information, from Alentejo and Extremadura, and nowCentro region, with everyone. This is the most effective way to have a distributed and flexiblesystem to be used as a territorial observatory for sustainable development and environmentprotection in these rural and low populated regions. It also contributes to territorialcohesion, one of the tree main pillars of the European Cohesion Policy.IDE-OTALEX is characterized for being a distributed, decentralized, modular and collaborativesystem, based on standards (OGC, W3C, ISO) and open source technology,developed to guarantee interoperability between the different GIS provided by each projectpartner. The geoportal is multilingual (Portuguese, Spanish and English) and integrates aMap viewer, Metadata Catalogue and Gazetteer. It consists of central and local nodes whichcommunicate through WMS (Web Map Services), CSW (Catalogue Service Web) andWFS (Web Feature Services). It is now implementing SOS (sensor observation services)and WPS (web map processing).The geographic information available on it results from an extensive work of data harmonisationadapted to INSPIRE Directive (D 2007/2/EC, of the European Parliament andCouncil, of March 14, 2007). It integrates basic cartography, socio-economic and environmentalindicators.
