-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Collection Development Policy for digital geospatial data Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:45:10 -0400 From: Marcel Fortin <[log in to unmask]> To: Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]> Message sent on behalf of Richard Pinnell: The members of the Scholars Portal’s (Ontario) Technical, Standards and Collections Working Group (TSCWG) are currently discussing how we might populate the Ontario Geospatial and Health Data Portal. We have determined that there is a need for two documents, each informing the other. One document would be our vision for the portal in terms of data content and the other a working document which details data loading strategies and priorities. We think that a good place to start is the vision which, once codified, would have many of the characteristics of a collection development policy statement. Many of us in the past have gone through the process, perhaps many times, of creating a collection development policy for cartographic materials (printed or manuscript maps, atlases, aerial photos, gazetteers, etc) for our respective libraries or archival collections. Some of you may have gone on to create such a statement for your geodata collections: vector GIS layers, geodatabases, orthoimagery, satellite data, and so on. You may have considered factors such as collection purpose, subject, date or chronology, file formats, language, copyright considerations, and data exclusions. I have an example of a collection development policy for the National Geospatial Digital Archive, Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections node (2007): http://www.ngda.org/research/Collections/NGDA_Collection_Development_Policy_11_06_final.doc. It looks useful but TSCWG members are interested in other examples of policy statements, for both Canadian and American geodata repositories and collections. If you have such a document and you are willing to share would you please post to the listserv or perhaps send to me directly? Many thanks Richard Richard Pinnell, Manager, University Map Library and Branch Library Services Library, University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada Email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Phone: (519) 888-4567 ext. 33412 Fax: (519) 888-4320 -- ------------------------------ Marcel Fortin, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Map Librarian Map and Data Library University of Toronto 5027 Robarts Library 130 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 1A5 tel: 416.978.1958 fax: 416-946-0522 http://mdl.library.utoronto.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/mapsgis