IMLS PLACE Grant: Press Release Abstract 3

Press release describing the PLACE (Position-based Location Archive Coordinate Explorer) project that is funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services. The University of New Hampshire (UNH) library partnered with the UNH Earth Systems Research Center to develop a geospatial interface that is searchable by geospatial coordinates. Includes IMLS Logo and Statement

IMLS PLACE Grant: Press Release 2

Press release dated October 25, 2014, describing the PLACE (Position-based Location Archive Coordinate Explorer) project that is funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services. The University of New Hampshire (UNH) library partnered with the UNH Earth Systems Research Center to develop a geospatial interface that is searchable by geospatial coordinates. Sent to the Geoportal Web page (Patrick Florence)

IMLS PLACE Grant: Press Release Abstract 1

Early press release describing the PLACE (Position-based Location Archive Coordinate Explorer) project that is funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services. The University of New Hampshire (UNH) library partnered with the UNH Earth Systems Research Center to develop a geospatial interface that is searchable by geospatial coordinates

IMLS PLACE Grant: Campus Journal Press Release

Campus Journal press release describing the PLACE (Position-based Location Archive Coordinate Explorer) project that is funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services. The University of New Hampshire (UNH) library partnered with the UNH Earth Systems Research Center to develop a geospatial interface that is searchable by geospatial coordinates

UNH Library IMLS PLACE Grant News Announcement

UNH Library Website News announcement about the IMLS Grant for PLACE, November 7, 2014

ALA Schedule PLACE Poster Announcement

Page from the ALA Conference Schedule announcing the PLACE Poster Session

The PLACE Toolkit: exposing geospatial ready digital collections

PLACE, the Position-based Library Archive Coordinate Explorer, is a University of New Hampshire geospatial data server and search interface that enables discovery of digital collections. Identifying geographic coordinates for “geospatial ready” digitized cultural heritage materials is key to the project. Presented: Open Repositories 2017, Brisbane, Australia. June 27, 201

Somewhere There’s a PLACE for Us: Linking Fedora Digital Collections and Open Geoportal

The University of New Hampshire Library and its partner, the UNH Earth Systems Research Center, have been awarded a grant in the amount of $474,156 from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program, to build PLACE, the Position-based Location Archive Coordinate Explorer. Among project objectives is to provide a toolkit for other institutions to implement in their geospatial digital collections. The project will contribute to two open source communities: Open Geoportal (OGP) and Fedora Commons. In this poster session we will provide an overview of the PLACE project timeline and a visual representation of its expected functionality and preliminary design. We will also distribute a progress report on the first year of our three-year project and hope to gather feedback on the outline for our toolkit from potential future PLACE implementers. PLACE will be a geospatial search interface that will use embedded geospatial coordinates to enable discovery of information that can be difficult to locate through text based searching. Through PLACE, via a click or delineation of a search polygon on a web map, users will zoom to a region and will locate all objects from the UNH Library Digital Collections whose geographic extents intersect. Initially, PLACE will provide access to geographic collections focused on the New Hampshire region, but it will be flexible and expandable as collections grow. Poster presented at the ALA Annual Conference, June 28, 2014, Las Vegas, N