Fixing GIS Data Discovery
Introducing GeoBlacklight
Jack Reed / @mejackreed
Stanford University Libraries
Geospatial data preservation and discovery is broken
One of the biggest problems for Code for America projects is getting access to the data.
@lyzidiamond | Code for America
Hours of user interviews
Students, instructors, researchers, experts, librarians, government agencies
Environmental scan
Development of a metadata schema
GeoBlacklight-Schema
Hardy, D., K. Durante. 2014. A Metadata Schema for Geospatial Resource Discovery Use Cases. code4lib 25.
Complimentary to other projects:
- reusing a controlled vocabulary from the FOSS4G CatInterop project
- crosswalk from ISO 19115/19139 and FGDC (and ArcGIS)
- conversion from OpenGeoportal Metadata
Current software offerings don't match institutional objectives
Focus on discovery
Leave out analysis
