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Item A Collaborative Vision for Spatial Scholarship Across the CIC(2012) Bidney, Marcy; Mattke, Ryan; Weessies, KathleenThis paper identified geospatial data as a long term, interdisciplinary need that would necessitate increasingly complex infrastructures to manage. The authors concluded that these infrastructures would likely be prohibitively expensive for each CIC library to maintain individually, and they proposed collaborative solutions for long term management of geospatial resources.Item 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, DarrenConsortial 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.Item Igniting the Inbetween: A Creative Design Process from Discovery to Celebration(2014-06-06) Penfield, LucyDuring times of change, we float between the known and unknown, comfort and discomfort, certainty and uncertainty. This transformative time represents a gray area—an inbetween—that we must navigate through in order to jump start our imagination and creative discovery. For my final project I installed an exhibition of photographs, objects, and a “Discovery Room” to illustrate a 6-Step Creative Design Process—a fusion of Systems Thinking, Integrative Thinking, and Design Thinking—useful to designers, artists and anybody solving a problem or facing a design challenge. Design your creative journey and change your story.Item MNCAT Plus and MNCAT Classic survey : results and analysis(2010-07-27) Primo Management Group; Chew, Chiat Naun; Fransen, Jan; Gangl, Susan; Hendrickson, Lois; Hessel, Heather; Mastel, Kristen; Nelsen, R. Arvid; Hendrick, Connie; Peterson, JeffThis document reports the results of a survey held by the University Libraries in 2009 on the use and perceived effectiveness of the Libraries’ catalog, MNCAT.Item A Spatial Collaboration: Building a Multi-Institution Geospatial Data Discovery Portal(2017) Blake, Mara; Majewicz, Karen; Mattke, Ryan; Weessies, KathleenAs academic education and research increasingly take advantage of geospatial data and methodologies, we see a corresponding exponential growth in the number of available geospatial resources in the form of GIS datasets and scanned historical maps. However, users can experience difficulty finding these resources due to the unconnected multitude of platforms and clearinghouses that host them. Additionally, the resources are not always well described with web semantic metadata that facilitates discovery. In response to this challenge, The Big Ten Academic Alliance Geospatial Data Project began in 2015 to provide discoverability, facilitate access, and connect scholars to geospatial resources. Our project leverages a multi-institutional collaboration and open source technologies to improve discovery for users of geospatial data and scanned maps. We outline collaborative workflows and strategies for a successful multi-institution collaboration.