TITLE: Building Geospatial Collections: Metadata Creation / Ingest Procedures
INSTRUCTORS:
Linda L. Hill and Mary L. Larsgaard
Alexandria Digital Library, UCSB
DESCRIPTION:This tutorial will build on the basic principals of collection building (selection, acquisition, metadata creation, object processing, and quality control) to address in detail the characteristics of georeferenced information objects. C ollection building will be viewed in terms of the purpose of the collection - who will use it and what objects will be in it. The process of metadata design and creation will be linked to the purposes of the activity - for retrieval, initial evaluation f or suitability, and access. Cataloging practices, concept representation systems, and processing steps that are particularly suited to spatial information representation will be reviewed. The presenters will incorporate into the workshop the lessons learn ed from building the collections for the Alexandria Digital Library. Tutorial workbook will be provided.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Librarians, data center operators, and others who are creating collections that contain georeferenced information objects such as maps, aerial photos, remote sensing images, and georeferenced texts, reports, articles, pictures, e tc., both digital and hardcopy.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Linda L. Hill
Computer Science / Alexandria Digital Library Project
1205 Girvetz
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
lhill@alexandria.ucsb.edu
http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/~lhill
Voice: 805-893-8587
Fax: 805-893-3045
Mary L. Larsgaard
Map and Imagery Laboratory
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
mary@library.ucsb.edu
Voice: 805-893-4049
Fax: 805-893-8799
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS:
Dr. Linda L. Hill has a Ph.D. in library science from the University of Pittsburgh. She has conducted research into the retrieval effectiveness of spatial representations of geographic "aboutness" of earth science research articles to the use of geographi c names from established thesauri. She has worked with georeferenced information as head of a petroleum exploration and production research library, assistant director of Petroleum Abstracts which indexes petroleum exploration and production literature, c onsultant with the federal government's Global Change Data and Information System, and as a research specialist with the Alexandria Digital Library. She is also an active participant in metadata-related standard activities.
Mary L. Larsgaard has an M.A. in library science from the University of Minnesota, a M.A. in Geography from the University of Oregon, and a B.A. in Geology from Macalester College. She is the author of "Map Librarianship: An Introduction", now in its seco nd edition. She is the assistant director of the Map and Imagery Laboratory of the Davidson Library at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the person most directly responsible for the building of the Alexandria Digital Library collection. Sh e is also an active participant in the Dublin Core and professional map librarian activities.
TUTORIAL OUTLINE (preliminary):
1. Introduction to the tutorial: participants and objectives
2. Overview: characteristics of georeferenced information objects and georeferenced digital libraries.
3. Cataloging: recording citation and context information in metadata; dealing with parent/child objects and their relationships.
4. Concept representation: use of thesauri, subject-heading schemes, lists of domain values, keywords, and abstracts.
5. Gazetteers: creation and use of spatially defined place name dictionaries
6. Ingest procedures: object preparation and storage; browse image creation.
7. Summing up