Dear Colleagues:
Please find the following announcement and excuse any duplication of
this message.
A new Web site, the Geospatial Data Preservation Resource Center, aims
to help those responsible for producing and managing geospatial data
learn about the latest approaches and tools available to facilitate
long-term geospatial data preservation and access. The Web site provides
descriptions and links for a variety of relevant resources, including
education and training modules, useful tools and software, information
on policies and standards for preserving geospatial data, and examples
of successful preservation and associated benefits. This first release
of the Web site, which CIESIN will be enhancing over the next year, was
developed as an element of the National Digital Information
Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) of the Library of Congress.
The Geospatial Data Preservation Resource Center is accessible at
http://geopreservation.org/
CIESIN, the Center for International Earth Science Information Network,
is a unit of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, based at the
Lamont campus in Palisades, New York.
Thanks,
Bob Downs
Dr. Robert R. Downs
Senior Digital Archivist and Senior Staff Associate Officer of Research
Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN),
The Earth Institute, Columbia University
P.O. Box 1000, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964 USA
Voice: 845-365-8985; fax: 845-365-8922
E-mail: rdo...@ciesin.columbia.edu
Columbia University CIESIN Web site: http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu
