National Geospatial Digital Archive Project
Lead Partner: University of California at Santa Barbara Libraries
Additional Partner: Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources, University of Tennessee at Knoxville Computer Science Department Logistical Computing and Internetworking Laboratory, Vanderbilt University Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education
NGDA is a collecting network for archiving geographic information produced with spatial software. They have partnered to construct a nationwide digital collection and preservation system. Geospatial data is information relating to the location of, and relationships between, geographical features. It provides information about the shape and location of objects on the Earth’s surface. This information can be used to manage utility distribution networks, monitor pollution, plan alternative traffic patterns, redraw voter districts, or track agricultural drought conditions.
Objectives:
- Archiving geospatial data and images
- Create a geospatial format registry
- Best practices for archiving digital geospatial data and policy agreements among partners
- Browse the geospatial data in the archive using maps
More detailed project information can be found at the Project Web site
Highlights:
- Tool: ADL Middleware Server
- Tool: Globetrotter
- Tool: NGDA Server
- Tool: Bulk Ingest Tool
- Tool: Workflow Tool
- Tool: ArchiveView
- Tool: Federated Archive Cyberinfrastucture Testbed (FACIT)
- Paper: An Investigation Into Metadata for Long-Lived Geospatial Data Formats (.doc, 394 Kb)
- Paper: The National Geospatial Digital Archive - Collection Development: lessons learns (.doc file, 171 Kb)
- NGDA Ingest System: Architecture and Development Guide March 2006 (PDF, 222.55 Kb)
- NGDA Format Registry Wiki
- September 2004-October 2007 Interim Report (.doc file, 779 Kb)
- NGDA Collection Development Policy, Final Version - November 1, 2006 (.doc file, 120 Kb)
- Stanford NGDA Content Provider Agreement (PDF, 35.79 Kb)
- Paper: Digital Preservation of Geospatial Data (Library Trends, Vol. 55, No. 2, Fall 2006) (PDF, 164 Kb)
- UCSB Profiles in Research: Preserving the Nation's Endangered Digital Information (PDF, 417 Kb)
