Scope & Objectives (adopted 17 Feb 2015)
What set of practices, standards, tools, and infrastructure do we want for geospatial objects, and non-geospatial objects with geo characteristics? How can institutions move from simply providing access to GIS data to sustainable full-lifecycle repository based management of GIS data? How can we create consensus and collaboration in answering these questions? Topics of interest will include:
- Geographic metadata - practices for representing geospatial metadata for non-geo objects, e.g., place name subject headings in MaRC records
- Geospatial data in a wide variety of formats and types (e.g., ingesting shapefiles, geodatabases, raster images)
- Licensing issues
- Access services: e.g., authentication, web service protocols (WMS, WFS, etc.)
- Workflows: production, curation, publication, and preservation of GIS data
- Building and operating spatial data infrastructure (e.g., GeoServer, PostGIS, tile cache)
- Preservation services
- Metadata standards: e.g., FGDC vs ISO
- Metadata services: e.g., gazetteer management, linked data approaches
- Metadata sharing: e.g., OpenGeoMetadata
- Management and integration of GIS data in a repository: e.g., modeling GIS data in Fedora 4
- Discovery services: e.g., geoportals, GeoBlacklight, Blacklight-Maps
Meeting Times & Communication Channels
We'll be having a bi-monthly phone call on the 3rd Thursday quarterly, with more frequent meetings for specific working groups.
As recommended in the current best practices within Hydra, we will use an existing channel unless and until it becomes clear that a dedicated channel is needed. We will use hydra-tech for technical conversations, hydra-community for general discussion, and hydra-partners for anything related to the hydra partnership itself. Discussions related to this IG should be prefaced with [geospatial].
Upcoming phone calls: All times are 1pm Eastern / 10am Pacific. Dial +1 (641) 715 3660, room 651025#
- Next call: Thursday November 9th at 3:10pm, in person at Samvera Connect
Members
At least three organizations must be represented in an interest group. Anyone may be part of an interest group with or without a CLA, as there are no deliverables from the group.
- Chair: (VACANT)
- Aaron Addison (Washington University in St. Louis)
- Andrew Battista (New York University)
- Bess Sadler (Data Curation Experts)
- Eliot Jordan (Princeton University)
- Emily Stenberg (Washington University in St. Louis)
- Jack Reed (Stanford U)
- James Griffin (Princeton University)
- Jay Varner (Emory University)
- Jennifer Moore (Washington University in St. Louis)
- John Huck (University of Alberta Libraries)
- Julie Sweetkind-Singer (Stanford U)
- Kevin Dyke (University of Minnesota Libraries)
- Kieran Etienne (Washington University in St. Louis)
- Kim Durante (Stanford U)
- Larry Laliberte (University of Alberta Libraries)
- Lynne Grigsby (UC Berkeley)
- Mara Blake (University of Michigan)
- Matthew Sisk (Notre Dame)
- Megan Slemons (Emory University)
- Stace Maples (Stanford U)
- Susan Powell (UC Berkeley)
- Tom Brittnacher (UC Santa Barbara)
- Thomas Scherz (University of Cincinnati)
- Hui Zhang (Oregon State University)
- John Ajao (UC Santa Barbara)
- wgcowan (Indiana University)
Resources
- Join the Hydra mailing lists
- XSLTs for transforming GeoMetadata (ISO and FGDC to GeoBlacklight and HTML)
- XSLTs and Metadata Crosswalks from NOAA (FGDC to ISO 19139/19110, etc.)
Meeting Notes
- 17 Feb 2015
- 19 Mar 2015
- 16 April 2015
- 21 May 2015
- 18 June 2015
- 20 August 2015 Geospatial
- 19 November 2015 Geospatial
- 21 January 2016 Geospatial
- 17 March 2016 Geospatial
- 19 May 2016 Geospatial
- 21 July 2016 Geospatial
- 15 September 2016 Geospatial
- Hydra Geospatial - 16 February 2017
- 20 April 2017 Hydra Geospatial IG Agenda
- 20 July 2017 Geospatial
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