McIntyre, Sandra

Neatrour, Anna

Wittmann, Rachel

Woolcott, Liz

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Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU Library Faculty & Staff Presentations Libraries 10-1-2015 Recommendations from the MWDL Geospatial Discovery Task Force Sandra McIntyre Rachel Wittmann Liz Woolcott Utah State University Anna Neatrour Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/lib_present  Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Recommended Citation McIntyre, Sandra; Wittmann, Rachel; Woolcott, Liz; and Neatrour, Anna, "Recommendations from the MWDL Geospatial Discovery Task Force" (2015). Library Faculty & Staff Presentations. Paper 84. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/lib_present/84 This Presentation is brought to you for free and open access by the Libraries at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Library Faculty & Staff Presentations by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@usu.edu. Sandra McIntyre, @sinawava, @MWDigLibRachel Wittmann, @rachelwittmannLiz Woolcott, @lizwoolcottAnna Neatrour, @annaneatLCSHLocalGeoNamesGetty TGNFASTGNISPlace Names - WITH controlled vocabPlace Names - WITHOUT controlled vocabOtherOtherURIIf you use a controlled vocabulary for geospatial metadata, what do you use?How are you expressing your geospatial metadata?Coordinates• Legacy Data: Create actionable plans to deal with legacy geospatial data including:• Describe find-and-replace scenarios that may be useful. • Look at the top five strategies used by MWDL partners to assign geospatial metadata and estimate what would need to be done to convert legacy data. • Regional Gazetteer: Have a subgroup look at adopting/developing a gazetteer of regional place names that are missing from international controlled vocabularies. • Points and Boxes: Review the formatting and syntax of Points and Boxes, particularly in regards to the DCMI Box/Point Encoding Schemes.  • Map Interfaces: Look further into GeoJSON vs. KML for presenting spatial data on map interfaces. ●●●Boy reading sign, Newfound Gap, Great Smoky Mountains, National Park, North Carolina,1957❏❏❏❏

Recommendations from the MWDL Geospatial Discovery Task Force

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