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Subject: Re: geospatial data in institutional repositories?
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 08:19:36 -0700
From: Jon Jablonski <[log in to unmask]>
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To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>


Katie:  I think your finding is valid.  Most IRs that I am familiar with
freak out when you start talking about anything other than PDFs and CSVs.

You WOULD think that with all the talk of data curation and support for
Big Data that there would be more actual data in IRs.  IMHO:  for now
most people charged with storing and organizing spatial data are
choosing to build dedicated spatial repositories.  The discovery and
access layers for spatial are so different that this might be the
situation for some time to come.

In their defense:  the data repositories and IRs haven't been around for
as long as spatial repositories.  Salim build MAGIS 5 or 6 years ago
now.  CuGIR and the Harvard Geospatial Library were there the very first
time I went looking for them in 2003--that's two or three years before
IRs really came on the scene.  In 2001-2002 there was that distributed
search engine with 5 or 6 nodes (NSDI?  Or was that the original GOS?)

What remains to be seen (again, IMHO) is whether any institutional data
repositories really take off.  So far, they have been restricted to
subject domains:  genomics and other sequence repositories; survey
research; demography (often with a spatial component); climate data.
Maybe spatial will remain by itself.

-j



On 10/8/2012 5:45 AM, Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library,
UW Milwaukee wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        geospatial data in institutional repositories?
> Date:   Sat, 6 Oct 2012 16:34:45 -0600
> From:   Kathryn Lage <[log in to unmask]>
> To:     'Maps and Air Photo Systems Forum' <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I’m doing some preparation for a NACIS presentation the week after next
> and hoping to gather knowledge from the collective Maps-L mind!
>
> I’m investigating geospatial research data in open repositories. And…
> I’m not finding much at all. I had hoped that the recent increase in
> research data management and data repositories would be reflected in the
> geospatial world. That in itself is an interesting finding, but I can’t
> talk about it for very long! So, I have two questions for Maps-L folks:
>
> 1.Does your institution have an IR that is planning to already holds
> research**GIS datasets?
>
> 2.Does your institution host a geoportal that contains institutional
> research data as well as commercial or government data?
>
> I’m doing more research on geoportals, government, and subject
> repositories, but thought I’d ask in case I’m missing something. It can
> be hard to pull out geospatial data. Thanks for any info you can provide!
>
> -Katie
>
> Katie Lage
>
> Earth Sciences/Map Librarian, Acting Head
>
> Jerry Crail Johnson Earth Sciences & Map Library
>
> Sciences Department, University Libraries
>
> 184 UCB
>
> University of Colorado
>
> Boulder, CO 80309
>
> 303-735-4917
>
> http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/map/