Name: #m5b: Spatial Data
Start: 2016-11-07T16:00:00-0600
End: 2016-11-07T16:55:00-0600

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#m5b: Spatial Data

Presentation 1
Implementing Collaborative Metadata Workflows for the Geospatial Data Discovery Project
The CIC Geospatial Data Discovery Project developed a web portal to serve as an access point for geospatial resources, including GIS data, imagery, and scanned historical maps. This presentation will review the project’s collaborative metadata workflow, including the metadata tools utilized for collecting, transforming, and editing geospatial metadata records.
Presenters: Karen Majewicz, Bria Parker

Presentation 2
Expanding the Neat Lines: Management of a Historical Society’s Map Collection
The focus of the session will be the building of the Wisconsin Historical Society’s (WHS) new online map collection and various digitization considerations that are specific to cartographic materials.
Presenters: Susan Krueger, Tegan Rice

Presentation 3
Snapshot - Viewing History from the Sky: Geo-rectification of an Aerial Photography Collection
Versions of aerial photographs over time provide a powerful view of a state’s geographic evolution. The University of South Carolina Libraries has digitized, geo-rectified and created a searchable website displaying its collection covering the 1930s-1980s thanks to a generous grant from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation.
Presenter: Kate Boyd

Session Chairs

Ann Hanlon

Head, Digital Collections and Initiatives, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Ann Hanlon is Head of Digital Collections and Initiatives at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She also co-founded and leads the Digital Humanities Lab at UWM. Ann has an MA in History from the University of Maryland and her MSLIS from the University of Illinois. She has worked... Read More →

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