ISPRS-Archives The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ISPRS-Archives Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci. 2194-9034 ISPRS Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/isprsarchives-XXXVIII-4-C21-89-2011 VALIDATION OF GEOGRAPHICAL DATASETS AGAINST SPATIAL CONSTRAINTS AT CONCEPTUAL LEVEL Belussi A. 1 Liguori F. 2 Marca J. 2 Migliorini S. 1 Negri M. 2 Pelagatti G. 2 Visentini P. 2 Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Verona, Verona, Italy DEI, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy 31 08 2011 XXXVIII-4/C21 89 94 Copyright: © 2011 A. Belussi et al. 2011 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XXXVIII-4-C21/89/2011/isprs-archives-XXXVIII-4-C21-89-2011.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XXXVIII-4-C21/89/2011/isprs-archives-XXXVIII-4-C21-89-2011.pdf

A huge amount of geographical datasets are becoming available in distributed environments like Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI). These datasets are very heterogeneous since they come from different independent sources and surveys and are structured in different formats. In the context of a national SDI that needs to assure an adequate quality level of the data it provides, it is necessary to face the problem of data validation in an uniform way independently from the chosen implementation technology. In this paper we present the tools and methodology for data validation which have been developed to support the construction of the Italian SDI. These tools are conformant to the relevant ISO 19100 and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards.