Scoping a Geospatial Repository for Academic Deposit and Extraction

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Grade Survey

GRADE will investigate and report on the technical and cultural issues around the reuse of geospatial data within the JISC IE in the context of media-centric, informal and institutional repositories.

A Work Package requirement is to carry out an audit of geospatial asset management within institutional repositories. The survey below only takes five minutes to complete; all completed responses will go into a prize draw for a £30 Amazon book voucher to be drawn during the week commencing 13th February 2006.

For the purposes of this survey geospatial data is defined as data explicitly containing coordinate geometry ie vector, raster, geo referenced images, text files, containing x,y coordinate values. (eg. Electronic maps, geo-referenced imagery, satellite data, data stored within a Geographic Information System(GIS))

Survey Questions

1. If you have a repository, what software do you use

2. Is your repository publicly available, if not who are your depositors and users?

3. Do you accept the deposit of geospatial datasets into your repository? If so how much? If not do you plan to?

4. What special metadata fields do you offer in your repository to describe geospatial data - how can users search geographically for geospatial data?

5. If you have geospatial data, do you ...

Receive supporting documentation from the depositor?
Have guidelines on file format required?
QA the data at all?
Require a declaration of ownership / copyright from depositors?
Confirm if derived from other datasets?
Have agreements to deal with issues of liability from use of the data?

6. Generally, do you think that archiving and providing access to research data is something institutions should do or specialist data centres?

7. What processes, if any, do you have in place to ensure that long term access to research data will continue e.g. migration of data so that it remains readable?

8. Please list any other Institutional Repositories you know that are managing geospatial datasets

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