Project Partners
The GeoMAPP effort is driven by a partnership between the Library of Congress and state geospatial and archives staff from North Carolina, Kentucky and Utah. The partners include: the North Carolina Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (CGIA), North Carolina State Archives, North Carolina State University Libraries, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives (KDLA), Kentucky Division of Geographic Information (DGI), Utah Division of Archives and Utah Automated Geographic Reference Center (AGRC).
For more information about the partners, click on the Partners link to the left.
Project Summary
The GeoMAPP effort aims to address the preservation of “at risk” and temporally significant digital geospatial content. Geospatial data layers containing information about land parcels, zoning, roads, and jurisdictional boundaries change regularly. Existing copies of these data are often at risk of being overwritten when updates or changes are made and these superseded snapshots of data are then lost for future use and analysis.
The project also intends to identify other geospatial data sets that would be valuable to preserve due to their utility in analysis such as land use, land cover or population change or content that would be valuable for historic mapping or cultural preservation.
Project Objectives
- Identify at-risk or temporally valuable geospatial content
- Develop an archives process to ingest and manage these superseded snapshots of geospatial data
- Perform state-to-state transfer and replication of geospatial content
- Implement strategies to enable long-term access and preservation of geospatial content, including lessons learned and best practices identified for archiving geospatial content
