Geospatial Metadata and Spatial Data Workshop

Venue and Date

University of St Andrews, Centre for GeoInformatics, Room 215 IT Laboratory - Irvine Building.

19 September 2013 (Thursday) 14.00 to 16.00 (Lunch: 13.00)

Directions to the University of St Andrews and the Irvine Building (Campus Map).

Description

EDINA, a JISC-funded data centre based at the University of Edinburgh, is offering this workshop to introduce geospatial metadata, online GoGeo resources, and the open and closed versions of ShareGeo, a spatial data repository. Workshop participants will also be introduced to a range of accessible web sources for spatial data.

The workshop is part an effort to introduce and promote online resources to support research and teaching and learning activities as well as spatial data management and sharing across the UK Higher and Further Education communities. The workshop will also provide an overview of the European Commission's INSPIRE Directive, which was transposed into UK law in December 2009. This law applies to the UK academic community and mandates the creation of metadata for spatial datasets.

The geospatial metadata workshop activities will include a one hour presentation which will cover the following topics:

geospatial metadata
the benefits of metadata
standards and guidelines (ISO 19115, INSPIRE and UK GEMINI 2.2)
UK Academic Geospatial Metadata Application Profile (UK AGMAP 2.1)
GoGeo resources for metadata creation and publication
ShareGeo Open spatial data repository
web sources for spatial data

and a one hour hands-on session for workshop participants who want to learn more about the:

GoGeo Portal
Geodoc Metadata Editor Tool
ShareGeo Spatial Data Repository

**Practicals will be provided for participants.

Workshop participants interested in creating metadata are encouraged to bring the following information for their spatial datasets:

Title
Abstract describing the dataset
The north, south, east and west co-ordinate (decimal degrees) extents of the area that the dataset covers
Dates when information was captured for dataset or date when dataset published
Scale or resolution
File format (eg: ArcGIS shapefile)
Lineage

Geodoc, and the closed version of ShareGeo (Digimap Services), can be accessed through the UK Access Management Federation (Shibboleth) authentication service. Please have your username and password for the workshop, though temporary trial usernames and passwords will be provided at the workshop.

If you would like further information about this event, or clarification with regards to the spatial dataset information to bring, please e-mail Tony Mathys (tony.mathys@ed.ac.uk) or call EDINA Help Desk at (0)131 650 3302.