A Domain-Oriented Approach for GIS Component Selection

So far, one of the key non-solved aspects of component-based developments is identifying and recovering existing components in effective way. On these lines, we all agree on the needs of organizing and cataloging candidate components to speed up search and identification. Particularly, domain-oriented catalogues have emerged as promissory tools, although it also implies more complex procedures for their creation. In this context, this paper introduces a proposal to compile information for Geographic Information Systems (GIS). By using Natural Language Processing (NLP) along with a standardized information scheme, we extract and catalogue information from components on the Web as well as from requirements from components´ users. We describe the main elements of the process and we illustrate them by using a motivating example.