GET-IT, Geoinformation Enabling ToolkIT starterkit. Versione1.0

GET-IT is a web-based platform for the management, publication, sharing and combining visualization of geospatial, observational data, and information. The platform is distributed as a suite of open source tools and was born from the collaboration CNR-IREA and CNR-ISMAR as part of the RITMARE flagship project (to support environmental research in the marine and coastal of Italy). The main features are: i) the adoption of interoperability standards for metadata, research, visualization and access to information and data; ii) the semantic enrichment of metadata associated with content information to improve its search ability and reuse; iii) the presence of high level user interfaces (Graphical User Interface - GUI) that simplify the publication, metadata and visualization of geographical information resources and of the observational resources from sensor networks; iv) ease installation process and usability to make it a tool easily adopted by individual research groups, institutions and organizations. The present document aims to provide a detailed description of the current version of the GET-IT software suite in terms of functionality, technological solutions adopted and operational implementations, highlighting, at the same time, the motivations that have guided the different design choices. The final chapter is dedicated to the description of two specific use cases for the use of the GET-IT platform to support marine and coastal research: i) publication and sharing of geographical layers; ii) publication of Time Series.