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Title: Metadata Handling in the North Carolina Geospatial Data Project (NCGDAP) NCSU Libraries Steve Morris Head of Digital Library Initiatives Rob Farrell Geospatial Initiatives Librarian


1
Metadata Handling in the North Carolina
Geospatial Data Project (NCGDAP)NCSU
Libraries Steve Morris Head of Digital
Library Initiatives Rob Farrell Geospatial
Initiatives Librarian
Digital Preservation in State Government Best
Practices Exchange 2006
2
Overview
  • Introduction to geospatial metadata
  • Project approach to geospatial metadata handling
  • Intersection with digital library metadata
    standards
  • Project approach to content packaging

3
NC Geospatial Data Archiving Project
  • Partnership between university library (NCSU) and
    state agency (NCCGIA), with Library of Congress
    under the National Digital Information
    Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)
  • One of 8 initial NDIIPP partnerships (only state
    project)
  • Focus on state and local geospatial content in
    North Carolina (state demonstration)
  • Tied to NC OneMap initiative, which provides for
    seamless access to data, metadata, and
    inventories
  • Objective engage existing state/federal
    geospatial data infrastructures in preservation

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Project Metadata Overview
  • Geospatial Standards
  • FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial
    Metadata
  • (upcoming) North American Profile of ISO standard
    for geospatial metadata
  • Digital Library Standards
  • Qualified Dublin Core
  • Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
    (METS)
  • PREMIS (PREservation Metadata Implementation
    Strategies)

5
FGDC Metadata Overview
  • Standard in 1994, mandated for federal agency use
    in 1995
  • 1998 ver. 2 to be replaced by North American
    Profile of the ISO standard
  • Descriptive, technical, and administrative
    metadata over 300 elements
  • FGDC is a content standard without an encoding
    standard creates archive problems
  • Many software products exist for authoring or
    making searchable FGDC metadata

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FGDC Metadata Publication Search
  • FGDC Metadata Search Options
  • Geo-Spatial OneStop (centralized, harvest-based
    catalog)
  • Z39.50 Metasearch across NSDI clearinghouses
    (distributed catalogs)
  • State/regional clearinghouses
  • FGDC Record Distribution
  • Harvested by Geospatial One-Stop
  • Made available to state/regional clearinghouses
  • Posted to agency websites
  • Distributed with data (hopefully)

7
Metadata in the NC GIS Community
  • FGDC CGDSM implemented by major state GIS
    agencies starting in 1994
  • NC CGIA Metadata Outreach regional workshops,
    phone support, training materials
  • Adoption
  • Some adoption by county agencies (21 of 92
    county GIS systems as of Spring 2004)
  • Some adoption by municipal agencies and COGS (13
    of 51 municipal GIS systems by Spring 2004)
  • Rare adoption by private, university, NGOs

8
Metadata Availability by County
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Local Agency Geospatial Metadata
Source NC OneMap Data Inventory 2004
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Refined vs. Unrefined Metadata
  • FGDC CSDGM compliance
  • Seventy-eight page document
  • Costly to implement
  • Incentives?
  • Compliance as an end goal
  • Help or Hinder?
  • Tools for automating metadata production
  • Free text options in CSDGM

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Our Response
  • Raise metadata to minimum level
  • Normalize to a standard
  • Manage expert intervention
  • Carry forward original metadata record

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Raise Metadata to Minimum Level(see handout)
  • Metadata template
  • Create template specific to data provider
  • Automate template application
  • Indicate our curatorship
  • Check for sufficiency of critical elements
  • Correct automation artifacts
  • Review contact information
  • Confirm data/metadata concurrency

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Normalize to a Standard(see handout)
  • XML format
  • May involve format conversion
  • Standard format for project metadata
  • Specialized profile
  • Allows automation attributes
  • Aligns with international standards
  • ISO 19139 topic categories

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Manage Expert Intervention(see handout)
  • Coordinate geospatial metadata management with
  • Administrative metadata collection
  • Our own curatorship (see handout)
  • Archive metadata production
  • Logical workflows
  • Automation where possible

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FGDC Mapping to Dspace Qualified Dublin Core
  • Map applicable elements to QDC
  • Part of larger element mapping scheme
  • Advantages
  • Leverage geospatial metadata record
  • Leverage earlier expert intervention
  • Limitations
  • Not all mappings are 1 to 1

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Content Packaging Requirements
  • Geospatial datasets are typically complex,
    multi-file objects
  • Data are often accompanied by ancillary data,
    which must be associated with the data item
  • Rights information and licenses must be
    associated with the item

Possible driver GeoDRM Working Group activity
within the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
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Project METS Approach (in Progress)
  • Use as a smart manifest within the repository
    item (function as DIP intelligence)
  • Avoid complexity
  • Not used for modeling tiled, or temporal data
    relationships
  • Not used for behaviors
  • There is no assumption of METS record
    interoperability on export
  • Use of METS is to derive network effect benefits
    of community interaction and to participate in
    dialog about content packaging

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Content Packaging Future Plans
  • Participate in repository exchange activity
    work towards better understanding of METS
    exchange and interoperability
  • Consider mapping of metadata elements to PREMIS,
    within METS
  • Watch geospatial community developments regarding
    content packaging (e.g. potential use of MPEG 21
    DIDL with GeoDRM)
  • Contribute library/archive use cases to GeoDRM
    developments

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Summary Metadata Issues
  • FGDC processing in archive complex will be
    easier after ISO 191139 is widely implemented
  • Need to normalize and remediate existing FGDC
    metadata
  • Feedback to statewide metadata outreach efforts
    is important
  • Mapping to repository ingest item helps to refine
    definition of technical and administrative
    metadata elements
  • METS vs. other content packaging solutions what
    will be the long-term geospatial industry
    approach?

20
Questions?
Contact Steve Morris Head, Digital Library
Initiatives NCSU Libraries Steven_Morris_at_ncsu.edu
Rob Farrell Geospatial Initiatives
Librarian NCSU Libraries Rob_Farrell_at_ncsu.edu
http//www.lib.ncsu.edu/ncgdap
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