NDSA:Geo January 2013

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January 18, 2013 Meeting Notes

Participants

Elizabeth Perkes, James Watson, Bob Downs, Bob Nutsch, Alec Bethune, Curt Pulford, Glen McAninch, Linda Reib, Erin Engle, Dianne Papineau

Meeting Notes

Diane Papineau, the GIS Analyst at the Montana State Library shared the section of their policy that influences GIS staff and illustrated their process of collecting spatial data (guided by policy) and archiving it as well as creating and serving both archival and active data to their GIS community. Diane shared some supplemental information:

Reference diagram: Slides:

Then discussed the need to work on the “use case” on the stewardship of geospatial data. Also introduced the idea of reworking Steve Morris’ Appraisal and Selection of Geospatial Data white paper as an NDSA output.