GET-IT: Integrating sensor information and semantics-aware metadata in GeoNode

Since 2014, the Geoinformation Enabling Toolkit starterkIT® (GET-IT), enriched GeoNode® with components addressing two essential needs of scientific research communities. On the one hand GET-IT integrates software for the management of sensor information (via the Sensor Observation Service by 52°North) alongside the geographic information natively supported by GeoNode. On the other, this software suite allows for advanced, customizable, and semantics-aware metadata management (via the EDI editor developed by CNR - IREA). These components enable communities interoperable management of in-situ sensor and geographic data through standards-based metadata and services (e.g., OGC, INSPIRE). Initially developed for the marine domain, GET-IT has been customized for the environmental, geological, urban planning, and precision agriculture contexts. In this presentation, the architectural and technological choices underlying this GeoNode Project will be showcased.