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Subject: RE: how do you get your researchers to,deposit data once they
have published their papers
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:15:12 -0400
From: John A Olson <[log in to unmask]>
To: 'Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum' <[log in to unmask]>
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Greetings all,
We too are starting on this, adventure, for lack of a better term. We're looking to start a campus IR that will include more than just text. We want audio, video, etc. This also means geospatial. I know of faculty all over my campus that have data, both numeric and geospatial that they have either created themselves or obtained for their research and it's just sitting in their offices and computers. Our approach is to try and get them to by-in by showing how it can benefit them in the short and long term (i.e. tenure and exposure to open access). Also we have our Library Admins talking to other Department and School Admins to get their by-in on this. Also our Dean is making the case to the Chancellor and her Cabinet. We'll see how this ball starts to roll and in which direction.
John Olson
Librarian - Maps/GIS/Human Geography
358 E.S. Bird Library
Syracuse University
222 Waverly Ave.
Syracuse, NY 13244
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The Library is as close as your computer
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From: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 12:58 PM
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Subject: how do you get your researchers to,deposit data once they have published their papers
I changed the subject line of this email because we're no longer talking
about cataloging but collecting ...
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Subject: Re: Cataloging non-published GIS data sets
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:32:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Julie Sweetkind-Singer <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: Julie Sweetkind-Singer <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi, all,
This is something I've thought about, but have yet to really work on it due to lack of staff support. But, we have been in talks with some of the social science/anthro/history faculty about putting together a joint project to collect faculty/student geospatial data and have it curated by the library. We were turned down on our first funding try and are now rewriting the project and hoping to apply for funding elsewhere. I'll let you know if anything comes of it. The thing that made me happy was that the faculty thought to involve the library in its process and in doing so, I think we're coming up with much more robust possibilities.
More, if it happens,
Julie
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Julie Sweetkind-Singer
Head Librarian; GIS & Map Librarian
Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections
Stanford University
397 Panama Mall; MC 2211
Stanford, CA 94305
(650)725-1102
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From: "Maps-L Moderator" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 10:39:02 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: Cataloging non-published GIS data sets
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Subject: Re: Cataloging non-published GIS data sets
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:35:34 -0700
From: Jon Jablonski <[log in to unmask]>
Organization: University of Oregon
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One more thought! While visiting China in 2007 I had a meeting at the
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. They have a huge GIS repository,
with data generated by CASS-sponsored research. I posed exactly the
question that is under discussion: how do you get your researchers to
deposit data once they have published their papers?
The answer was that they have staff. I'd have to look it up in my
notes, but my memory tells me that they have 17 staff members devoted to
the care and feeding of this repository. Some of them are sysadmin type
geeks, but the bulk of them actually beat the bushes looking for
data--they read journals and then go to the authors and ask for copies
of the data, and do all of the organization, description, and ingest
themselves. The researchers don't have to do anything other than cough
up the data.
There is a mandate to deposit data--but it is backed up with this team
of data curators.
17!!!
-Jon Jablonski
Thinking a 1-party system might not be so bad if only they'd stop
hitting people over the head. Oh--and a huge tax surplus looking
to be spent.
Maps-L Moderator wrote, On 7/15/2009 1:03 PM:
> Hi everyone,
>
> How many of you catalog your non-published GIS datasets in your online
> catalogs? By non-published, I mean those datasets you acquire locally,
> with our without license restrictions that weren't ever published or
> distributed via depository or sale? Do you enter them in OCLC or just
> locally? Do you also provide access to metadata via a web based finding
> aid?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Angie
>
> Angie Cope, Senior Academic Librarian
> American Geographical Soaciety Library
> UW Milwaukee Libraries
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