NDSA:February 2012

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February 29, 2012 Meeting Notes

The Geospatial subgroup of the NDSA Content WG met via teleconference on Wed. Feb. 29. The call was a getting to know you session, with participants productively sharing their thoughts and expectations on the goals of the group. Co-leaders John Faundeen of the USGS and Brett Abrams of NARA shared a draft mission statement to open the discussion. This draft is up on the NDSA wiki at http://www.loc.gov/extranet/wiki/osi/ndiip/ndsa/index.php?title=Draft_Mission_Statement and is open for editing through March 15.

After sharing their expectations, the group discussed possible future activities. These potential actions are being shared and collected via email, and will be shared shortly on the NDSA wiki. More to come!

Future Group Agenda Topics

• Archives and Libraries act in conjunction with geospatial users in government to meet with ESRI and discuss need for published or open formats.
• Generate effort to find a location for geospatial data that a state or other kinds of archives cannot afford to maintain.
• Consider effort toward appraisal: particularly what kind of data needs to be preserved (raw, intermediate, or final stage, all, some)

Topics exported from the GeoMAPP survey of full and informational partners

• Anything that helps us understand how to manage all kinds of electronic records
• Archiving GIS data, Geopspatial format issues, geospatial metadata for preservation and access.
• archiving GIS project data
• Archiving GIS project data and standards would be good topics.
• Archiving GIS project data;
• As noted: Engaging with local governments; Archiving GIS project data
• FDGC to ISO 19115 Metadata conversion- preservation impacts; Preservation strategy for geospatial data projects (source data, interim products, etc); Preservation in an ephemeral Web service based world
• I would be interested in Archiving Porject data and Engaing with local governments
• I would like more information on archiving GIS project data or working with the FDGC to ISO metadata shift.
• I would like to work with ensuring the work of the project is accessible through other venues like eXtension's Map@Syst community. Additionally, I have interest in how to ensure local governments are aware of the issues involved.
• Leveraging local government geospatial data sharing through state archiving serivces.
• Storage & Access; Infrastructure; Enabling Technologies
• These suggested potential topics sound great. I would also like to see more about moving from research and study toward implementation, ingesting, and consolidation of data stores.
• We have so far to go... the FGDC to ISO shift would interest us, as would the GIS archiving