Definition and standardization of data elements' attributes in land and resources management

Abstract

The standardization of data element in land and resources management is an important component of the standardization of information technology in the field. It's an essential method to guarantee the interconnection, intercommunication and interoperability, and achieve the information sharing. This study is a case study on Beijing Municipal Land and Resources Management, especially cadastral management and land use management. Considering of the particularity of data in land and resources management from the aspects of language, expression, area, data and application, we study and develop many rules to describe the attributes of data element based on ISO/IEC 11179 and GB/T 19488. This paper shows the specific definition and standardization of data elements' attributes in our study. The whole study can direct the other related working in land and resources management, and give the ideas to carry out the study on the standardization of data element in the other fields. © 2013 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.