Description
This paper will overview several library GIS and geoinformatics projects, collaborations, and initiatives at Purdue that, taken together, formulate a reasonable plan of attack for geolibrarians interested in tackling some (not all) of the issues rolled up into e-geoscience and geoinformatics. Included as examples are a metadata harvesting/catalog project, collaborations with domain faculty, courses developed and taught, and e-data efforts. From this handful of examples an argument will be made that aggressive and efficient individual geolibrarians can impact and indeed steer geoinformatics and interdisciplinary research efforts project by project, then campus by campus, and simultaneously develop and evolve their library data services and strategies. But with a price.
Keywords
geoinformatics, GIS, geographic information systems, geolibrarianship, geospatial librarianship
Session Number
Session 06
Location
Forney Hall (FRNY) B124
Start Date
22-6-2010 10:30 AM
End Date
22-6-2010 11:30 AM
Recommended Citation
Miller, C. C., "Library applications, collaborations, and courses for geodata and geoinformatics" (2010). International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries, 31st Annual Conference. 6.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul2010/conf/day2/6
accompanying Prezi slides in OS X application bundle and Flash executable
Library applications, collaborations, and courses for geodata and geoinformatics
Forney Hall (FRNY) B124
This paper will overview several library GIS and geoinformatics projects, collaborations, and initiatives at Purdue that, taken together, formulate a reasonable plan of attack for geolibrarians interested in tackling some (not all) of the issues rolled up into e-geoscience and geoinformatics. Included as examples are a metadata harvesting/catalog project, collaborations with domain faculty, courses developed and taught, and e-data efforts. From this handful of examples an argument will be made that aggressive and efficient individual geolibrarians can impact and indeed steer geoinformatics and interdisciplinary research efforts project by project, then campus by campus, and simultaneously develop and evolve their library data services and strategies. But with a price.