GeoMAPP Interim Report: 2007-2009, March 2010
This document details the findings during the first phase of the GeoMAPP project (2007-2009). The report includes project overview, key investigative activities and important observations/findings that can assist both GIS practitioners and archivists in their efforts to preserve superseded geospatial data for the long-term.
Data Transfer Documentation
One of the main tenets of the GeoMAPP effort was to move geospatial content (1) between GIS creators and the State Archives within each state and (2) between states via the State Archives. Below are the results of the efforts for each state. Also included is a design template for states planning to implement intrastate data transfer.
- System Inventory Template
- Intrastate Data Transfer Design Outline
- North Carolina Intrastate Data Transfer Design and Evaluation
- Utah Instrastate Data Transfer Design and Evaluation
- Interstate Data Transfer Design Outline
- North Carolina Usability Study Final Report
Records Retention Schedules
- Kentucky State Agency Records Retention Schedule
- Maine Records Retention Schedule
- Michigan Records Retention and Disposal Schedule
- North Carolina Local Retention Schedule (Draft)
- North Carolina Retention Schedule - DENR/CGIA/NCOneMap (Draft)
FGDC and Dublin Core Metadata Comparison, March 2009
This document created by GeoMapp compares two different types of metadata standards - FGDC (Federal Geographic Data Committee) and Dublin Core - for the purpose of data discovery and preservation. The report concludes with a simplified model listing the optimal metadata of the FGDC Standard and Dublin Core combined.
Memorandum of Understanding
The Memorandum of Understanding between the Division of Archives and Records Service (Archives) and the Automated Geographic Reference Center (AGRC). The document outlines responsibilities to preserve the long-term availability of geospatial data.
Utah's Business Plan for Archival Preservation of Geospatial Data Resources, December 2008
This business plan outlines goals, program benefits, program requirements and costs, and an implementation plan for preserving geospatial data by the Utah Division of State Archives and the AGRC.
Utah's Electronic Records Management Business Case
This electronic records management (ERM) strategy is a collection of definitions, distinctions, best practices, and industry standards that will enable the efficient use of Utah state government resources and continued confidence in the state’s records management stewardship.
Surveys, 2008
In the summer and fall of 2008, the GeoMAPP team conducted several state specific and national surveys to identify geospatial creation and archiving trends among state and local agencies in North Carolina as well as among state archives and members of the national geospatial community.
National
The GeoMAPP team developed two similar surveys, one targeting state government archivists and records managers, and another distributed to state Geographic Information Officers (GIOs) and other state government GIS leaders. The surveys featured some questions unique to the target audience and others that were common across surveys for ease of comparison. Below are the survey questions and resultant raw data.
- NSGIC Geo-Archival Practices Survey
- NSGIC Survey Raw Data
- CoSA/NAGARA Geo-Archival Practices Survey
- CoSA/NAGARA Survey Raw Data
State Specific
Following on the heels of two successful local government surveys conducted by the North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project (NCGDAP) project in 2006
and 2008, and running in parallel with two national surveys listed above, Kentucky and North Carolina conducted surveys within their states targeting geospatial data creators within their borders. Below are the survey questions and corresponding results.
- Kentucky Local Government GeoArchives Survey
- Kentucky Survey Raw Data
- North Carolina State Agency GeoArchives/Retention Study
- North Carolina State Agency Results
Kentucky Geospatial Archives Procedures
This document created by Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives to provide an overview of the Kentucky Geography Network (KYGEONET) and the state's involvement in national geospatial repositories.
Multistate Geo-archival Process Flow
This document, created in the early phase of the grant project, charts how archives and data stewards will interact intra- and inter-state to move geospatial data.
Composite Workplan
The composite workplan breaks down each goal of the project into itemized tasks for the archives and geospatial agencies in each partner state.
Grant Proposal, October 2007
This is the project proposal and workplan as submitted to NDIIPP in October of 2007.
