UALC Geospatial Discovery Task Force

Final Report and Tutorial

Quick Guide: MWDL Geospatial Metadata Quick Guide

Report: Best Practices for Geospatial Metadata Creation for MWDL Cultural Heritage Digital Repositories

Tutorial: Instructions for Assigning Geospatial Metadata Using GeoNames.org

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Charge for the Task Force:

The Geospatial Discovery Task Force of the Digitization Committee of the Utah Academic Library Consortium is an ad hoc committee whose charge is as follows:

1. Identify existing geospatial metadata practices used by Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) partners and other digital libraries, as well as other disciplines and organizations.

    • Identify areas for potential development and improvement (e.g., key issues and problems)
    • Identify easily achievable practices that MWDL partners can implement in the interim before a final recommendation is made.
    • Identify examples of map-based search Interfaces, successful and unsuccessful

2. Develop guidelines for MWDL partners to use in standardizing metadata practices to optimize geographically-based discovery of digital resources.

    • Suggest steps for addressing key issues and problems
    • Recommend revisions to the MWDL Dublin Core Application profile to accommodate geospatial metadata

3. Develop recommendations and instructions for creating map-based search interfaces or augmenting existing interfaces with map-based search functionality.

4. Identify and share tools related to geospatial metadata and the creation of map-based search interfaces.

5. Create the following deliverables:

    • An online bibliography of resources
    • Guidelines for MWDL geospatial metadata practices
    • Recommendations & instructions for creating map-based search interfaces or search functionality
    • Final report on the task force’s activities, findings, and recommendations.

Co-Chairs

Liz Woolcott

Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services

Utah State University

Merrill–Cazier Library

435-797-9458

liz.woolcott@usu.edu

Kristen Jensen

Electronic Business Project Manager

Utah Department of Heritage and Arts

801-245-7243

kjensen@utah.gov