17/10/2015ACMLA - Toronto1 Experiences with Data Dissemination ACMLA Meetings Toronto, 2002 Bo Wandschneider Manager Academic Service University of Guelph

17/10/2015ACMLA - Toronto2 Introduction Parallels between what we went through in Data Centre with DLI and what GIS librarians going through now There is overlap and we can gain from each others experiences Many sites integrate ‘data’ and ‘maps’

17/10/2015ACMLA - Toronto3 Topics of Discussion History of DRC Proposal Stage Why Successful Hardware What You Need Developments GIS

17/10/2015ACMLA - Toronto4 What To Expect Not providing answers Outlining our process and solutions with respect to ‘data’ May help you make decisions for your own site with respect to geospatial data Speak in general terms with focus on UoG experiences

17/10/2015ACMLA - Toronto5 History of DRC I Grew out of the Social Sciences There was a need Economics researchers did a lot of empirical work and other departments looked to their support person for help (this included library) Already developed interfaces to CANSIM, CRSP and LAVAL

17/10/2015ACMLA - Toronto6 History of DRC II Joined ICPSR in early 90’s Questions re: funding and support Attended a summer workshop at ICPSR put on by Chuck Humphrey, Diane Geraci and Jim Jacobs Visited Laine Russ and Vince Gray and talked to lots of of people on lists like CAPDU, DLI, IASSIST

17/10/2015ACMLA - Toronto7 Proposal Stage Based on information gathered Wrote a detailed proposal outlining various models for a Guelph data centre in 1993 Flogged it to EVERYONE DLI was the key Kansas was playing with SAS/Perl Developed a prototype

17/10/2015ACMLA - Toronto8 Proposal to Pilot Set up a Pilot in Fall of 1996 Partnership between CCS and Library and CSS Moved from CSS to CCS – partnership changed SAC formed to give us a forum to vet ideas and generate support

17/10/2015ACMLA - Toronto9 Why Successful Timing was right – latent demand Collaborative – CCS/Library Built a TEAM Librarian - Gov Docs Library Associate - Gov Docs Systems Analyst – programmer Systems Analyst – background with data applications in Social Science research

17/10/2015ACMLA - Toronto10 Hardware/Infrastructure Physical location with personal/public workstations in Library Central Unix Server (piggy back on Stats Server) Started as HP K200, single Processor, 256 Mb memory with about 10GB dedicated to DRC Now a Sun E450, 4 processor, 4Gb memory with about 200GB disk for DRC

17/10/2015ACMLA - Toronto11 What you need Need someone with vision and drive Don’t get stuck talking in committees about problems needs and ideal solutions. Although, buy-in is critical Demand is out there now so get the info to the users and worry about the details later. Someone will always do it better tomorrow – use that to grow your service Get people with hands-on experience or train, train, train – This is applied work Publicize

17/10/2015ACMLA - Toronto12 Further Developments Moved to integrate with Gov Docs Reference (challenging, really just happening over last year) TDR partnership Developed DDI compliant metadata GIS

17/10/2015ACMLA - Toronto13 GIS From the beginning we discussed what to do with Census Maps Lacked GIS skills on our team Most of our data is geo-spatially referenced Problem - no consensus on GIS tools on campus Lacked specialized equipment/lab in library to deliver information Needs exist in departments beyond core GIS users

17/10/2015ACMLA - Toronto14 GIS - What we did first Started small – biggest bang for the buck Hired a work study student They wrote web pages to wrap around census files Explained files and how to use them in detail Simply served the files to user Worked very well Used by other sites

17/10/2015ACMLA - Toronto15 GIS - What happened? NTDB, NRVIS, DMTI, DCRB, Grand River, Municipal, OMAFRA Soil Maps …. This is a good thing, right ? déjà vu ?

17/10/2015ACMLA - Toronto16 GIS - What did we do next Jenny Marvin became the GIS librarian Integrated, Gov Docs, Data and Maps Changes in CCS staffing of DRC allowed us to have our staff gain experience with GIS, specifically ESRI Negotiated a site licence for ESRI on campus Someone ‘gave us’ a disk tower Still a partnership between CCS and Library

17/10/2015ACMLA - Toronto17 GIS - What else did we do Wrote pages around the new data and served it to the users like what we did for census Added 3 work stations outside DRC with account security for maps that need licences signed by user (incl. ESRI and CDRW’s) High School and Work Study help Onus is still on the client to figure out how to view information – they need the skills

17/10/2015ACMLA - Toronto18 GIS - What are we going to do ARCIMS – deliver maps on the web for those with no GIS skills ARC Catalog – create metadata for collection Offer training in ARCGIS similar to what we do with SAS and SPSS Promote use of ESRI Establish a GIS lab in library