The Library of Congress (LC) is active on multiple fronts in the campaign to understand and archive dynamic digital data for future generations. The LC awarded North Carolina two grants through its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.
GeoMAPP (2008-2011)
This grant pairs state government archives staff with geospatial experts to investigate the issues surrounding the preservation of “at risk” geospatial content. The partners include the states of Kentucky, Montana, North Carolina and Utah that are investigating the policies, process, inventory, technical infrastructure, storage capacity, and funding issues involved in ensuring long-term access to data.
GeoMAPP also sponsors a national “Informational Partner” forum to discuss project findings and state experiences among its 18 state members and federal partners.
Read more about the
GeoMAPP project.
North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project (2004-2009)
The
North Carolina Geospatial Data Archiving Project focuses on content standards, digital rights management, ingest workflows, and secondary gathering and harvesting of data. The NC OneMap program is key to the development of successful preservation strategies because it provides the technical and social interface, i.e. the organized data structure, for this project. The Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, staff to the GICC, and NC State University Libraries have collaborated on this grant, along with the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Archives and Records Section.
Local governments are important players in the archiving of geospatial information. They are the creators of the most widely used data sets for government decision-making and emergency response. As part of the project North Carolina local governments were surveyed about their archiving habits and processes. Read the results of the
2006 survey. Read the fascinating
2008 survey report and comparisons with the earlier survey.
For further information on the Library of Congress National Digital Data Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), click
here.