Bidney, MarcyMattke, RyanWeessies, Kathleen2020-05-072020-05-072012https://hdl.handle.net/11299/213250This paper was a major impetus for the creation of the BTAA Geospatial Data Project, with its goal to provide discoverability, facilitate access, and connect scholars to geospatial data resources.This 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.engeoportalsconsortiadiscoverymetadatageospatialWorking Paper