Consortial Geospatial Data Collection: Toward Standards and Processes for Shared GeoBlacklight Metadata

摘要

Consortial geospatial data communities, such as the OpenGeo- Portal federation and the GeoBlacklight initiative, facilitate contextualized discovery and promote metadata sharing to disperse hosting and preservation responsibilities across institutions.However, the challenges of communal metadata are manifold; they include proliferating standards, varying levels of completeness, mutable technology infrastructures, and uneven availability of human labor. Drawing from literature on metadata quality control, we outline a procedure for “scoring” GeoBlacklight records to establish a Domain Specific Language for metadata best practices. We propose strategies for authorship andmanagement conducive to functionally interoperable geospatial metadata, that is versioned and enhanceable by the collective.