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Browsing by Author "Battista, Andrew"

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    Consortial Geospatial Data Collection: Toward Standards and Processes for Shared GeoBlacklight Metadata
    (Journal of Library Metadata, 2018-03-13) Battista, Andrew; Majewicz, Karen; Balogh, Stephen; Hardy, Darren
    Consortial geospatial data communities, such as the OpenGeoPortal federation and the GeoBlacklight initiative, facilitate contextualized discovery and promote metadata sharing to disperse hosting and preservation responsibilities across institutions. However, the challenges of communal metadata are manifold; they include proliferating standards, varying levels of completeness, mutable technology infrastructures, and uneven availability of human labor. Drawing from literature on metadata quality control, we outline a procedure for “scoring” GeoBlacklight records to establish a Domain Specific Language for metadata best practices. We propose strategies for authorship and management conducive to functionally interoperable geospatial metadata, that is versioned and enhanceable by the collective.
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    GeoDatabase (.gdb) Data Curation Primer
    (Data Curation Network, 2019) Battista, Andrew; Brittnacher, Tom; Garrett, Zenobie; Moore, Jennifer; Pirmann, Carrie
    The geodatabase is a container for geospatial datasets that can also provide relational functionality between the files. Although the term geodatabase can be used more widely, this primer describes the ArcGIS geodatabase designed by Esri.