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Geospatial Metadata Guidance Links

CIESIN’s Guide to FGDC Compliant Metadata. Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/metadata/

Digital Geospatial Information Working Group (DGIWG). http://www.dgiwg.org/

Earth Science Markup Language (ESML). http://esml.itsc.uah.edu/index.jsp

Introduction to GML Geographical Markup Language. World Wide Web Consortium. http://www.w3.org/Mobile/posdep/GMLIntroduction.html

NARA Records Management. Expanding Acceptable Transfer Requirements: Transfer Instructions for Permanent Electronic Records, Digital Geospatial Data Records. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). http://www.archives.gov/records_management/initiatives/digital_geospatial_data_records.html

Open GIS Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Specification. OGC 02-023r4. Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC). http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/gml

Publications on FGDC-Endorsed Standards. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC). http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/standards_publications/index_html

Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS) Website. U. S. Geological Survey (USGS). http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/sdts/

Guidance on Preservation and Administrative Metadata

A Web Hub for Developing Administrative Metadata for Electronic Resource Management. http://www.library.cornell.edu/elicensestudy/homeprintable.html

Administrative Metadata for Digital Still Images. Harvard University Digital Repository System (DRS). http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/systems/drs/imagemetadata.pdf

Cedars Guide to Preservation Metadata (March 2002). The Cedars Project. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/guideto/metadata/guidetometadata.pdf

Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata: Final Report of the PREMIS Working Group. (May 2005). Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and Research Libraries Group (RLG). http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/pmwg/premis-final.pdf

Data Model for Managing and Preserving Geospatial Electronic Records, Version 1.00. (June 2005). Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University. http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/ger/DataModelV1_20050620.pdf

PREMIS: PREservation Metadata: Maintenance Activities. Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) Office of Research, OCLC Member Services, and Research Libraries Group, Inc. (RLG). http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/

Preservation Metadata and the OAIS Information Model: Metadata Framework to Support the Preservation of Digital Objects (June 2002). OCLC/RLG Working Group on Preservation Metadata. Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and Research Libraries Group, Inc. (RLG). http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/pmwg/pm_framework.pdf

Preservation Metadata for Digital Collections (1999). National Library of Australia. http://www.nla.gov.au/preserve/pmeta.html

Report on the Meeting of Experts on Digital Preservation: Metadata Specifications. (June 2004). U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. http://web.archive.org/web/20070702001802/http://www.gpoaccess.gov/about/reports/metadata_report_final.pdf

General Guidance on Metadata

Automatic Exposure: Capturing Technical Metadata for Still Images (2004). Research Libraries Group, Inc. (RLG). http://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/past/automaticexposure/ae_whitepaper_2003.pdf

Brand, A., Daly, F., and Meyers, B. (2003). Metadata Demystified: A Guide for Publishers. The Sheridan Press & NISO Press. http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Metadata_Demystified.pdf

Controlling Your Language – Links to Metadata Vocabularies. Technical Advisory Services for Images (TASI). http://www.tasi.ac.uk/resources/vocabs.html

Duval, E., Hodgins, W., Sutton, S. and Weibel, S. L. (2002). Metadata Principles and Practices. DLIB Magazine, 8(4). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april02/weibel/04weibel.html

Guidance on the Structure, Content, and Application of Metadata Records for Digital Resources and Collections, (Draft October 2003). IFLA Cataloguing Section, Working Group on Metadata Schemas. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/guide/metaguide03.pdf

Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information. Murtha Baca (Ed.) Getty Research Institute. http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intrometadata/

Jewell, T. D., Anderson, I., Chandler, A., Farb, S. E., Parker, K., Riggio, A. and Robertson, N. D. M. (August 2004). Digital Library Federation Electronic Resource Management: The Report of the DLF Initiative. Digital Library Federation.http://www.diglib.org/pubs/dlf102/

Understanding Metadata (2004). National Information Standards Organization. NISO Press. http://www.niso.org/publications/press/UnderstandingMetadata.pdf

File Format Registries and Guidance

Brown, David L. (2004). Library and Archives Canada: Guidelines on Computer File Types, Interchange Formats and Information Standards. Library and Archives Canada (LAC). http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/government/002/007002-3017-e.html

Earth Science Data Terminology and Formats. NASA, Science Mission Directorate. http://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/earth-science-data/earth-science-data-terminology-and-formats/

JHOVE - JSTORE/Harvard Object Validation Environment. Harvard University. http://hul.harvard.edu/jhove/

Global Digital Format Registry. Harvard University. http://hul.harvard.edu/gdfr/

Pronom, The File Format Registry. The National Archives of England, Wales, and the United Kingdom. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/

Intellectual Property Guidance

Commission on Intellectual Property Rights. http://www.iprcommission.org/

Copyright Quickguide (2002). Copyright Advisory Office of Columbia University Libraries / Information Services. http://copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/copyright-in-general/copyright-quickguide/

Creative Commons. http://creativecommons.org

Frequently Asked Questions About Copyright (2004). CENDI Copyright Working Group. http://cendi.gov/publications/04-8copyright.html

Implementation Guidelines for the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting: Conveying rights expressions about metadata in the OAI-PMH framework. http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-rights.htm

Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM). (January 2005). Library-Related Principles for the International Development Agenda of the World Intellectual Property Organization. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). http://www.ifla.org/III/clm/p1/Library-RelatedPrinciples-en.html

Longhorn, R. A., Henson-Apollonio, V., and White, J. W. (2002). Legal Issues in the Use of Geospatial Data and Tools for Agriculture and Natural Resource Management: A Primer. Mexico, D. F.: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT). http://csi.cgiar.org/download/IPR_Primer.pdf

Science Commons. http://sciencecommons.org/

U. S. Copyright Office. http://www.copyright.gov/

Example Geospatial Data Management Policies and Guidelines

Guide to Managing Geospatial Electronic Records, Version 1.00. (June 2005). Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University. http://alpha.ciesin.columbia.edu/ger/GuideToManagingGERv1Final.pdf

Managing Cartographic, Architectural and Engineering Records in the Government of Canada. (2006) Library and Archives Canada (LAC). http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/government/002/007002-2050-e.html

McGarva, Guy. (April, 2006). Curating Geospatial Data. Digital Curation Centre. http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resource/briefing-papers/curating-geospatial-data/

Regulations, Directives, Policies and Guidelines and their Relation to NPS Geographic Information Systems. National Park Service, U. S. Department of the Interior. http://www.nps.gov/gis/data_standards/

Selected Information Management (IM) uand Information Technology (IT) Programs and IT Policies. U. S. Environmental Protection Agency. http://www.epa.gov/irmpoli8/

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