Open Collections

Geospatial Discovery for Canadian Research Data

Canadian Association of Research Libraries. Portage Network

Presentation for Digital Humanities 2020. With increasing demand for geographic components in research, there is an opportunity for research data repositories to provide alternatives to text-based discovery. Enter Geodisy: an open-source spatial discovery platform for Canadian open research data. Initially funded by CANARIE and now in partnership with Portage, Geodisy provides a map-based search that is available alongside Canada’s Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR). Data is discoverable based on its location, and users have the ability to preview datasets as overlays on a digital map and access comprehensive metadata. Data is currently sourced from Scholars Portal Dataverse, which houses open research data from over forty Canadian institutions. The project’s next goal is to continue to integrate with FRDR and expand the interoperability of the tool to include additional data sources, including governmental open research data. For humanities research that relates to geospatial location, this work provides a new and useful form of data discovery. In this presentation, we will share software architecture, metadata processes, and a demonstration of the platform.

Presentation

eng

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0394924

Library, UBC

Faculty; Other

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