by Christina Harlow This Repository just covers the ‘Enhancing Metadata with Geospatial Data’ workshop portion: see the link to the full workshop schedule and documentation here:http://bit.ly/DLF15geowkshop DLF Forum 2015 Purposes for this portion/intro to scope shift Getting items in previously discussed platforms discoverable in primary discovery interfaces/aggregated search options Existing best practices for adding Geospatial…
Developed by the Mountain West Digital Library Geospatial Discovery Task Force Best practices developed by the MWDL Geospatial Discovery Task Force for recording geospatial metadata for aggregated harvest. Instructions include recommendations for including place name hierarchy, URI’s, and latitude and longitude information. MWDLGeospatialDiscoveryTaskForceFinalReport
Developed by the Mountain West Digital Library Geospatial Discovery Task Force Tutorial for using the GeoNames.org database to create geospatial metadata for Dublin Core records. This tutorial also instructions for understanding, using, and adding to records in GeoNames.org database. InstructionsforAssigningGeospatialMetadataUsingGeoNames