1. NDIIPP Project Update NC Geospatial Data Archiving Project (NCGDAP) North Carolina State University Libraries North Carolina Center for Geographic Information & Analysis Presented by:Steve Morris Head of Digital Library Initiatives NCSU Libraries NDIIPP Partners MeetingJanuary 17, 2007

2. A “temporally-impaired” industry begins to discover time and the value of older data Major vendors and consulting firms begin to see temporal data management and analysis as a customer problem Opportunities abound to engage professional organizations, software vendors, data producers, standards organizations Biggest Project Surprise: Emerging Industry Interest in Data Longevity

3. The true counterpart to the old map is not the GIS dataset but rather the finished geographic product (map, chart, etc.) More than data—also classification, layering, symbolization, annotation, modeling … PDF documents are an increasingly common output format for finished products Unexpected Activities: Handling PDF as a Geospatial Format

4. County and city agencies beginning to digitize old maps and aerial imagery NCGDAP partners with NC Geologic Survey to resurrect geologic maps and old topo maps NCGDAP-georectified maps made available for download and put in the National Geologic Map Database in 2006 Unexpected Activities: Resurrecting Old Maps Superceded USGS Topo Maps Geologic Maps from Theses, Dissertations, and Reports

5. Survey indicates that 20 state agencies are asking for local geodata “Contact fatigue” among local agencies – in response state/local/ federal data exchange partnerships emerge Leveraging more compelling business reasons to put the data in motion Unexpected Activities: Partnering in Content Exchange Networks Orthophoto “sneakernet” system Started fall 2006 Transportation data exchange system Funded starting fall 2006 Ongoing statewide data inventory Started March 2006

6. Unexpected Activities: Engaging Standards Efforts Partnered with EDINA (UK) and NARA to approach the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) in 2005-2006 Working Group charter approved by OGC Technical Committee plenary Dec. 2006

7. Unexpected Activities: Developing Ingest Workflow Tools Developed a set of Python classes for threat scanning, copy, item formation, and ingest object creation Developed a set of ArcGIS tools for format conversion Repository ingest approach gets inspiration from ECHO DEPository hub-and-spoke model

8. Huge new audience for geospatial content/services Massive crossover of mainstream IT to geospatial, spurring open source activities Rapid development of lightweight interoperability specifications “Good enough” approaches to data (formats, quality, standards) Changes in the Domain: Mashups, Google Earth, Map APIs, and More

9. Web mashup/AJAX interactions with existing systems spur creation of intermediate content layers: e.g., tiling and caching of web map services Ongoing development of a tiling services spec creates a new preservation opportunity Changes in the Domain: New Information Ecosystem of Static, Tiled Map Data

10. Mobile, LBS, and, social networking applications drive demand for place- based data Long-term cultural heritage value in non- overhead imagery: more descriptive of place and function Changes in the Domain: More Place-based (versus spatial) Data Oblique Imagery Street View Images DOT Videologs Tax Dept. Photos