This talk provides evidence of the growing temporal gap in geospatial collections and explores the consequences of inaction. It also discusses how government spatial data infrastructures fail to address preservation and offers guidelines for libraries looking to build a geospatial data archive.
Karen Majewicz is the Associate Director of the Big Ten Academic Alliance Geospatial Information Network at the University of Minnesota, where she leads technology and data curation activities for the BTAA Geoportal. Her research interests include metadata standards, open data, digital archives, and the history of national spatial data infrastructures. She holds a Master of Geographic Information Science from the University of Minnesota.
The Public Data for the Public Good summer webinar series is co-sponsored by the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis and the Research Commons at the University Libraries.
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