MWDL Resources
Final Report and Tutorial
2015-07-31 Best Practices for Geospatial Metadata Creation for MWDL Cultural Heritage Digital Repositories:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bSUmnH1w195m1_gL9Z24__IJkCqcZpEz7XXfxEqTc6c/edit?usp=sharing
2015-07-31 Instructions for Assigning Geospatial Metadata Using GeoNames.org: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vmEy1vPcaKfhY0FAiKUgnVAvn5S6iDxBErf1X7ikuoA/edit?usp=sharing
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Reports and Surveys
Initial Reports
Recommendations for Geospatial Standards for Digital Collections in the Mountain West Digital Library by Dorotea Szkolar
Phase 1 Subgroup reports:
Subgroup 1, Reviewing Dorotea's report: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FvYwnOxzjFnqrrbTo2u1LQeuA2WKvWh69QabOtJ8yiI/edit?pli=1
Subgroup 2, Identifying Low-Hanging Fruit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uG7HH9UA-56MQ0ecdG9wb1qqHjGOHeYTeP1pOUHXCVU/edit?usp=sharing
Subgroup 3, Identifying Map-Based Interfaces: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_3cn7zuYfw-RkZxWmZLTUdsMDA/edit?usp=sharing
Phase 2 Subgroup mini reports:
Subgroup 1, Controlled Vocabularies: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mVw2rgpO2FbB4HB0W6S_6wnKvIiKoRZqg0J_lqj4BpE/edit
Subgroup 2, Coordinate data and GIS perspectives: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lRVuQAf_ptYmeBAquop5M9aB6Nqf7fENSWlcKOMo4Lk/edit?usp=sharing
Subgroup 3, Map-based Interfaces: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wdrgmN1vuDUBTlJNHxRsXZYuHGI50C9lzhiC8Nwl7aE/edit
Draft infographic: http://my.visme.co/projects/mwdl-geospatial-task-f#
Phase 3 Final Report and Tutorials:
Best Practices for Geospatial Metadata Creation for MWDL Cultural Heritage Digital Repositories: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bSUmnH1w195m1_gL9Z24__IJkCqcZpEz7XXfxEqTc6c/edit?usp=sharing
Instructions for Assigning Geospatial Metadata Using GeoNames.org: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vmEy1vPcaKfhY0FAiKUgnVAvn5S6iDxBErf1X7ikuoA/edit?usp=sharing
Task Force experiments with using OpenRefine to transform spatial data using GeoNames Web Services API: https://sites.google.com/site/mwdlgeospatial/home/openrefine
Webinars
Creating Google Maps with Your Metadata Using Google Fusion Tables
Nick Hayen, MWDL Web Portal Assistant
Geospatial Metadata in the Mountain West Digital Library,
archived webinar presented by Dorotea Szkolar
Geospatial Metadata: How Maps Can Help You Find Stuff
Geospatial Discovery Task Force report (Feb. 20, 3014) by:
Kristen Jensen, Utah Department of Heritage and Arts,
Liz Woolcott, Utah State University
Community notes from webinar: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16B_Lbc6B4hO7I0sppEKeJKErRsOtWU6Thf2_JTbaJs0/edit
Geospatial Discovery Task Force report (Nov. 20, 2014) by:
Kristen Jensen, Project Manager, Utah Department of Heritage and Arts
Liz Woolcott, Metadata Librarian, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University
Sandra McIntyre, Director, MWDL
Anna Neatrour, Metadata Librarian, MWDL
Rachel Wittmann, Metadata Specialist, Clemson University
Demonstration Maps
Poster
Geospatial Recommendations for the Spatially Challenged, by Anna Neatrour and Liz Woolcott, presented at the Digital Library Federation Forum 2015