Using Interlinked Thesauri for INSPIRE-Compliant Metadata Management

As part of the eENVplus project about infrastructures for the INSPIRE implementation, a Thesaurus Framework (LusTRE) is being developed which allows to interlink different environmental domain thesauri and offers access to them as one virtual integrated linked data source - which shall support better metadata compilation and metadata discovery for describing and finding INSPIRE data and services. Further, a Web Service infrastructure is being provided (the LusTRE Exploitation Services, LusTRE-ES) that allows to make optimum use of the knowledge contained in LusTRE for improving existing metadata tools. In this paper, we give an overview of LusTRE and present important aspects of the LusTRE-ES: its architecture and design principles, the REST interface, the list of services / service modules under development, and the way how these services shall improve existing metadata tools.