Mapped Today; Zapped Tomorrow? Preserving Government Digital Geospatial Data
ESRI Federal Users Conference
February 2010, Washington, DC
Butch Lazorchak from the Library of Congress, and Alec Bethune and Kelly Eubank from North Carolina presented on GeoMAPP's efforts to develop a sustainable digital archive for geospatial data. The presentation began with an overview about the Library of Congress' mission to ensure access over time to a body of digital content through the establishment of a national network of partners committed to selecting, collecting and preserving at-risk digital data. The team members from North Carolina followed by outlining the basics of "geoarchiving" and how GeoMAPP key findings, such as format awareness, metadata completeness, and descriptive naming conventions could be applied to individual agencies.
Welcome to GeoMAPP
Informational Partners Kick-off Meeting
October 2009
GeoMAPP kicked off a new method of project engagement with the creation of an Informational Partners Program. The program is intended to share findings from the project and provide mentorship to participating states. In this web presentation, Jeff Brown, Butch Lazorchak, Alec Bethune, Mark Myers, Elizabeth Perkes and Kelly Eubank explained the role of the Informational Partnership to the new states and provided background about GeoMAPP’s findings and next steps for the project heading into 2010.
Geoarchiving 101: How to engage GIS Practitioners in the Archival Discussion
Footprints in the SAN: Transferring and Archiving GIS Data
Preserving NC's Historical Footprints: Archiving NC GIS Data
Kentucky Collaborates in GeoMAPP Project: The Advantages and Challenges of Archiving in a State with a Centralized GIS
Best Practices Exchange
September 2009, Albany, NY
North Carolina and Kentucky GeoMAPP team members gave four presentations at the BPE in Albany, NY.
In the first session "Geoarchiving 101", Alec Bethune and Butch Lazorchak provided a primer on the key concepts of geospatial technology as it pertains to preservation while sharing lessons learned from the project about building relationships between archives and GIS practitioners and leaders.
During the second session "Footprints in the SAN", Druscie Simpson and Alec Bethune described the experiences, challenges, and opportunities encountered in the ongoing efforts to determine best methods for archiving of geospatial records. They also discussed the problems and issues encountered in transferring large files and large numbers of files within the state’s network; filename standardization; “bag-it”; cataloging; and storage, preservation, and access of archived GIS records.
The final North Carolina session "Archiving NC GIS Data", presented by Ronald Leach, William Brown and Rebecca Paden, described the experiences, challenges, and opportunities encountered while working with diverse groups responsible for preserving historically significant geospatial records. These groups include technical and subject matter experts, state and local agencies, and state governing councils.
Glen McAninch from Kentucky also presented on the advantages and challenges associated with archiving in a state with a centralized GIS. During the presentation, he described the Kentucky Geo-Architecture, records retention schedules, geospatial metadata, and archival web services as access tools all within the context of a centralized GIS.
Mash-up - Archivists and GIS Practitioners: Capturing Earth's Footprints in a Changing World
Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting
August 2009, Austin, TX
Butch Lazorchak, Alec Bethune, Mark Myers, Elizabeth Perkes and Kelly Eubank presented on the Geospatial Multistate Archive and Preservation Partnership (GeoMAPP) initiative to develop a sustainable digital archive for geospatial data. Topics included GIS 101 (see supporting GIS Glossary) which gave an overview of GIS basics, background information on the GeoMAPP project, creating retention schedules and finding aids for geospatial data (view this video and this video in RealPlayer for a demonstration of the software), and an overview of the technical issues associated with ingesting/preserving geospatial data and possible solutions.
GeoMapp Multi-State Project: Capturing Earth's Footprint in a Changing World
NAGARA Annual Meeting
July 2009, Seattle, WA
Kelly Eubank, Glen McAninch, and Elizabeth Perkes representing the partners of GeoMAPP (North Carolina, Kentucky, and Utah) discussed the challenges of geospatial content, outreach, and lessons learned from this effort.
GeoMAPP Business Planning: Developing Materials to Get Stakeholder Buy-In
GeoMAPP: Using Metadata to Help Preserve Geospatial Content
NDIIPP Partners Meeting
June 2009, Washington, DC
Alec Bethune, Matt Peters, and Glen McAninch gave two presentations at the NDIIPP Partners Meeting.
The GeoMAPP team members first presented on building a business case for preserving GIS records. This included providing the results to two national surveys which focused on states archiving GIS records and the drivers for archiving, describing outreach and engagement efforts, and providing a step by step approach to business planning. The presentation ended with an overview of the Utah Geoarchives Business Plan.
In their second session, the GeoMAPP team members presented on the theme of geospatial metadata. This included a primer on the FGDC (Federal Geographic Data Committee) and ISO metadata standards, what is contained in a geospatial metadata record, and what metadata might be important to Archivists for data discovery and preservation. The presentation ended with each team member describing the three state approaches to making geospatial metadata useful.
Geospatial Multistate Archive and Preservation Partnership Metadata Comparison
NDIIPP Web Cast
June 2, 2009
Cindy Clark, Glen McAninch, and Steve Morris presented the challenges associated with metadata creation for geospatial data. Some of the challenges included obtaining the appropriate level of metadata from data producers, the need for administrative and technical metadata elements that are not accomodated by the two geospatial metadata standards, and establishing an effective metadata workflow for long-term preservation of geospatial data.
GeoMAPP Business Plan Poster
IS&T Archiving Conference
May 2009, Arlington, VA
Butch Lazorchak and Mark Myers presented a poster on building a business plan for the archival preservation of state and local geospatial data resources.
Next Generation Archives: The NC Geospatial Data Archiving Project
NOAA Coastal GeoTools '09 Conference
March 2009, Myrtle Beach, SC
Zsolt Nagy and Jeff Essic presented "Preservation of Coastal Community Geospatial Content: What's Your Long Term Care Plan For Aging Data?" They provided an overview of the North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project and an introduction to the Multi-State Demonstration Project (GeoMAPP).
Preserving North Carolina’s Historical Footprints: an Update on Archiving NC GIS Data
GICC Meeting
February 2009, Raleigh, NC
Dr. Ed Southern provided an update on recommendations from the report of the Archival and Long Term Access ad hoc Committee of the GICC (11/19/08) and then spoke about the challenges with and possible solutions to archiving geospatial data.
Preservation of Digital Geospatial Resources: A Team Climb
NSGIC Annual Conference
September 2008, Keystone, CO
Zsolt Nagy moderated a presentation by the GeoMAPP team introducing the project and the challenges faced by archivists and geospatial practitioners.
Geospatial Multistate Archive and Preservation Partnership: A Content Transfer, Demonstration, and Learning Project
NDIIPP Annual Conference
July 2008, Arlington, VA
Zsolt Nagy and Kelly Eubank presented Geospatial Multistate Archive and Preservation Partnership: A Content Transfer, Demonstration, and Learning Project at the NDIIPP Annual Conference. They provided an overview of the goals and tasks of the projects, as well as an update of the current events related to the project taking place among the partner states.
GIS is from Mars, Archivists are from Venus: Linking State Government Geospatial Professionals and their Cultural Heritage Counterparts
Best Practices Exchange
May 2008, Helena, Montana
Butch Lazorchak, Megan Durden, and Mark Myers presented an overview of the grant project, including information about other NDIIPP projects, the challenges of working with geospatial data, and the goals of the project.
Preservation of Geospatial Data
Kentucky Digital Government Summit
April 2008, Lexington, Kentucky
Demetrio Zourarakis and Glen McAninch presented an overview of geospatial activities in Kentucky and introduced the NDIIPP grant project at the Kentucky Digital Government Summit, presented by the Commonwealth Office of Technology (COT) and Government Technology magazine.
Kentucky Archival Preservation of GIS Records
NDDIIPP Multistate Project Meeting
January 2008, Salt Lake City, Utah
Kenny Ratliff and Glen McAninch introduced the state partners to the state of geospatial archiving and preservation in Kentucky.
An Overview of GIS Applications and Activities
Fall 2007
Kent and Kim Anness presented an overview of geospatial activities in Kentucky, including an introduction to KY GeoNet.
GeoMAPP Brochure
January 2009
The GeoMapp brochure, Preserving America's Geospatial Footprints, describing project objectives, challenges, and partnerships, has been published and is available for download.
GeoMAPP Press Release
February 2008
North Carolina, Kentucky and Utah announced the award of a multi-state grant titled Multi-state Geospatial Content Transfer and Archival Demonstration.
