Maintaining Long-term Access to Geospatial Data

27 October, 2006 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM

e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, , Edinburgh



Organiser:

Miss Joy Davidson

 

Any slides or other material generated as a result of this event can be found at: www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=697


Final Programme

09.30 Arrival and Coffee
10.00 Introduction to the workshop and the Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
10:20 Session 1: CITING AND MANAGING GEOSPATIAL DATABASES
  Using XML manifests to cite geospatial feature databases; Rajendra Bose and Guy McGarva, DCC
  Managing Ordnance Survey geospatial data in the UK legal deposit libraries; Chris Fleet, Deputy Map Curator, National Library of  Scotland, and Kimberly Kowal, Curator of Digital Mapping, The British  Library
11:20 Coffee
11:40 Session 2: GEOSPATIAL DATA FORMATS AND METADATA
  North Carolina Geospatial Archiving Project (NCGDAP); Steve Morris, North Carolina State University Libraries
  Go-Geo! UK academic geospatial metadata standards and formats; Tony Mathys, EDINA National Data Centre
12.45 Lunch catered by e-Science Centre
13.45 Session 3: GEOSPATIAL REPOSITORIES AND STORAGE
  National Geospatial Digital Archive (NGDA) project; Greg Janée,University of California, Santa Barbara
  British Atmospheric Data Centre (BADC); Sam Pepler, BADC
  The UK Geospatial Repository for Academic Deposit and Extraction (GRADE) project; James Reid  
  Geospatial Repositories; Humphrey Southall, Department of Geography,  Portsmouth University
15.30 Discussion and wrap-up session
16:00 Close

Optional dinner follows the workshop; individuals will cover their own dinner costs.

Enquiries

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