-------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: geospatial data in institutional repositories? Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 16:02:31 +0000 From: Kollen, Chris <[log in to unmask]> To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]> Hi Katie: We did a geospatial data pilot with our campus repository. In the pilot, we worked with three faculty members. The link to our repository is http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/ and the geospatial data collections are at http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/127285. We didn't do anything fancy -- any shapefiles for raster data are zipped files. I'm working on a final report for the pilot -- what worked, what didn't work, and recommendations. Also, the ALA MAGIRT GeoTech Committee had a Spatial Data Catalog Subcommittee that I chaired where we did a survey of spatial data catalogs and I'm writing a final report for the GeoTech Committee. Be happy to talk to you on the phone about both. I agree with your comment about research data management, you'd think there would be more. At the UA, we're just getting started. I'm on a campus wide data management committee and part of our charge is to look at the UA hosting a data repository. Chris Kollen Chris Kollen Data Curation Librarian Scholarly Publishing and Data Management Team University of Arizona Library P.O. Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 [log in to unmask] Phone number: 520-305-0495 -----Original Message----- From: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Angie Cope, American Geographical Society Library, UW Milwaukee Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 5:46 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: geospatial data in institutional repositories? -------- 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/