Extending the Boundaries: A Workshop on Managing and Preserving Geospatial Electronic Records
Palisades, NY, Thursday, May 13, 2004.

The workshop brought together practitioners and managers from both the geospatial and data archiving communities to address the challenges faced by state and local government personnel in managing and preserving geospatial data and related electronic records.

Goals for the workshop were to review and recommend practical and appropriate policies, techniques, standards, and practices for managing GERs based on experience and practices drawn from both the geospatial and data archiving fields. Effective management of GERs can foster their long-term retention and dissemination and facilitate their usability and utility as important organizational assets and information resources.

The workshop included presentations on both geospatial and archival perspectives and on the initial results of an ongoing study of geospatial data management practices in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut region. Following the presentations, interdisciplinary teams of data analysts, managers, and archivists assessed the requirements and reviewed practical approaches for managing and preserving GERs that have been or could be implemented by state and local government archivists, records managers, and other institutional recordkeepers. Links to the workshop materials are listed below.