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December 2006: Volume 11, Issue 4
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DCC workshop: Maintaining long-term access to geo-spatial data
On Friday 27 October, the UK Digital Curation Centre (DCC) held a one-day
workshop, hosted by the e-Science Institute (eSI) in Edinburgh, on maintaining
long-term access to geospatial data. The workshop was targeted for people already
knowledgeable about geospatial data use and management. The theme reflected
the missions of both the DCC and the eSI, which is to assist scientists and
other researchers in actively managing and adding value to the digital data
collections they work with over long time periods.
The goal of the workshop was to bring together a group of people who could
learn from and update each other on progress and best practices. This was
achieved through eight short presentations covering the three following
themes:
- Citation and management of geospatial databases
- Geospatial data formats and metadata
- Geospatial repositories and storage
Presentations and speakers included:
- Using XML manifests to cite geospatial
feature database, Rajendra Bose and Guy McGarva, DCC
Managing Ordnance Survey geospatial data in the UK
legal deposit libraries,Chris Fleet, National Library of
Scotland and Kimberly Kowal, The British Library
North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving project (NCGDAP), Steven
P Morris, North Carolina State University Libraries
Go-Geo! UK academic geospatial metadata standards and
formats, Tony Mathys,
EDINA
National Geospatial Digital Archive (NGDA) project, Greg
Janee, University
of California at Santa Barbara
British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC), Sam Pepler,
BADC
The UK Geospatial Repository for Academic Deposit and
Extraction (GRADE) project, James Reid, EDINA
Geospatial Repositories, Humphrey Southall, University
of Portsmouth/Great Britain Historical GIS
The original workshop web site is located at: