\contentsline {chapter}{A generic approach to manage metadata standards}{1}{section*.2} \contentsline {section}{Inroduction}{1}{section*.3} \contentsline {section}{Metadata management}{2}{section*.4} \contentsline {subsection}{User's needs and tasks}{2}{section*.5} \contentsline {subsection}{Software engineer's needs and tasks}{2}{section*.6} \contentsline {subsection}{Generic approach vs specific approach}{3}{section*.7} \contentsline {section}{Generic models to manage efficiently \{metadata element, value\} pairs}{3}{section*.8} \contentsline {subsection}{A generic model to manage heterogeneous metadata standards}{3}{section*.9} \contentsline {subsection}{A generic model to manage heterogeneous (thematic and spatial) values}{4}{section*.10} \contentsline {section}{Model implementation with open source software}{5}{section*.11} \contentsline {subsection}{Underlying technical choices}{5}{section*.12} \contentsline {subsection}{Examples of a possible generic GUIs set}{5}{section*.13} \contentsline {section}{Conclusion and outlook}{5}{section*.14} \contentsline {chapter}{Bibliography}{6}{section*.16}