Schedule:
All times in Mountain Daylight Time (MDT). Times subject to change
| 10:00am-10:15am | Welcome |
| 10:15am-10:45am | ABQ Recap |
| 10:45am-11:00am | Break |
| 11:00am-11:45pm | Scholarship Reflections |
| 11:45pm-12:15pm | Lunch |
| 12:15pm-12:55pm | GIS Presentations:
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| 12:55pm-1:35pm | Collections Presentations: |
| 1:35pm-1:50pm | Break |
| 1:50pm-2:50pm | WorkshopGetting started with ARK persistent identifiers – John Kunze, Drexel University Metadata Research Center. |
Trivia with Chris Thiry | |
| 2:50pm-3:00pm | Closing remarks |
Programming:
Lightning talks
Building Community Through GIS Day: Growing GIS Day Programing at Carnegie Mellon University
Emma Slayton, Carnegie Mellon University
Jessica Benner, Carnegie Mellon University
Many GIS Librarians have found success in bringing attention to GIS education, research opportunities, and possibilities utilizing mapping tools through GIS Day programming. However, engaging with community members, students, and faculty in library programming can be a challenge. The GIS Day model at CMU libraries has grown to target content that brings together these communities, as well as our partners in local government and software development, to focus on their work and inspire cross community engagement. Focusing on learning from others, our events have involved conference style formats, a combination of long form and lightning talks. Additionally, our events include a tabling session, which unlike promotion at conferences focuses on education around various GIS tools or software, local government projects, and interactive activities to increase engagement between learners. Current planning for GIS Day 2024 is underway, with a goal to further increase engagement by incorporating discussion components to scheduled thematic sessions. By highlighting the practical applications of GIS technology, the opportunities inherent in using the tool across various disciplines, and encouraging networking between GIS experts, novices, and just generally interested, the program increases the understanding of GIS and visibility of our general library programming.
Beautifying the map library increases belonging and use
Heather Ross, Penn State University
Taking some ideas from Chris Thiry’s presentation at last year’s WAML conference about beautifying and updating the Colorado School of Mines map library, we decided to make country flag drawer labels. When discussing the project, we realized that it would fulfil our DEIB initiative, where the B stands for Belonging. Little did we realize how much an impact this small project had on our student staff, our library colleagues, and our patrons.
Presentations
Historic Maps and their Utilization in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Erin Mutch, UC Merced
The GIS Center within the UC Merced Library provides research services to faculty and is responsible for managing and maintaining a geospatial collection for our students and researchers. We support Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software and for over 500 users yearly and provide workshops and consultations.
GIS Center staff have provided consulting services to researchers and direct project support. Through four case studies, we will detail our processes for converting historic maps into GIS products that contribute to research publications and data sets.
Specifically, we will discuss the technical demands and research benefits of georeferencing and vectorizing digitized historic maps utilizing various methods including machine learning and heads up digitizing and sharing that data via ArcGIS Online and other cloud-based applications. We conclude with recommendations for others embarking on this type of work.
Short but sweet: Co-creating learning outcomes for active learning in the Map Collection
Neah Ingram-Monteiro, Western Washington University
With only 30 to 90 minutes to teach a group in the Map Collection, how can a librarian approach instruction in ways that meaningfully engage marginalized learners? Through relationship-building and conversation with learners’ instructors and mentors, I write learning objectives for each Map Collection workshop, and then work backwards to design activities that actively engage participants in learning. I will share three cases representing different constituencies involved with place-based learning: revising a workshop for an undergraduate course, creating a new faculty development workshop, and adding a Map Collection visit to a place-based orientation for a yearlong sustainability fellows program.
Parcel Data in Practice: Processing Big Data in a Self-Managed, Open Source Environment.
Phil White, University of Colorado Boulder
Parcel data is complex. Working with parcel data from the entire United States is extraordinarily complex. Combining nationwide parcel data with nationwide Census blocks and building footprints data will send your laptop into a conniption. This presentation will describe how a consultation turned collaboration led to a supercomputing adventure. Phil will share lessons learned managing a project of this scale, his approach to processing several terabytes of data efficiently, and the implications for librarians supporting geospatial information.
Scanning and Weeding: A Prescribed Burn of the State of Arizona Research Library’s Map Collection
Ryan Ehrfurth, State of Arizona Research Library
This presentation will provide a detailed walkthrough of a map collection development project underway at the State of Arizona Research Library.
The project entails evaluating every map to determine its suitability in the collection. Some maps will be scanned and made accessible online, others will be weeded and discarded.
The purpose of this project is to enhance discoverability of the collection’s best maps through digitization, while reducing the collection’s size by weeding maps that do not fit the collection development policy.
Learning outcomes include:
• Planning a large scale evaluation of a physical collection.
• Establishing efficient workflows to implement the evaluation.
• Creating or revising policies to maintain the health of the collection going forward.
Workshop:
Getting started with ARK persistent identifiers
John Kunze, Drexel University Metadata Research Center.
This tutorial introduces ARKs (Archival Resource Keys), persistent identifiers for information objects (eg, web addresses that don’t return 404 Page Not Found). Since 2001, 8.2 billion ARKs have been created by over 1200 organizations — libraries, data centers, archives, museums, publishers, government agencies, and vendors. Highly flexible and non-paywalled, ARKs are being adopted increasingly by organizations in the global South and by those that need large numbers of identifiers.
Citation-friendly ARKs identify anything digital, physical, or abstract, including things created by both human and automated agents (eg, Generative AI, hardware sensors), as well as the agents themselves. ARKs provide an open API to connect to FAIR metadata and persistence statements.
The intended audience is anyone interested in identifiers designed for flexibility, nuanced persistence policies, and inclusion of institutions of any size and means. It will be especially practical for data producers and repository system providers.