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Harvard will create native Linked Data descriptions for a selection of library cartographic resources including printed maps, atlases, digital geospatial datasets, and other cartographic information resources. 

Together with LD4L-Labs partners, Harvard will convert a set of Harvard Geospatial Library metadata records into linked data descriptions.

Note: Documentation, ontology files, and data being created to support the Cartographic Materials extension project are available at the LD4P Cartographic Materials GitHub repository

Harvard Project Proposal

For questions or comments, please contact Marc McGee, Geospatial Metadata Librarian, mmcgee (at) fas (dot) harvard (dot) edu, or submit issues via https://github.com/LD4P/Cartographic_Materials, whether ontology or metadata production or both. There can be links here to other stuff.Link here the Project's proposal page

• Set of natively cataloged BIBFRAME descriptions for a variety of cartographic resource types using the cartographic materials extension ontology.
• Develop a set of mapping rules for Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) geospatial metadata standards to linked data.
• A set of Harvard Geospatial Library metadata records converted to linked open data using the cartographic materials extension.

Here's a list of what this project hopes to achieve. Eventually this list will link to actual stuff like documents.

• outcome 1
• outcome 2

Last updated: 7/17/2018

Analysis/Modeling

• Finalize supporting documentation for the Geospatial and Cartographic Resource Ontology (GCRO), including recommendation papers and graphic models (July 2018)

• Create a Geospatial and Cartographic Resources Ontology (GCRO) SHACL application profile (deferred to future date)

Production Cataloging

• Test cataloging of a selection of geospatial and cartographic resources using the GCRO application profile in the Harvard geospatial data instance of VitroLib (deferred to future date)

Visualization work

• Completing demo visualization tool for converted geospatial metadata collections (January-June 2018)

See Harvard LD4L Labs wiki for documents

Good headers are:

Analysis/Modeling

Linked Data Creation

Tool Exploration / Requirements Definition

Collaboration

Community Engagement

Stuff that's done. This list will get LONGER AND LONGER.Good headers are:Last updated: 4/27/2018

Analysis/Modeling

Linked Data Creation

Tool Exploration / Requirements Definition

Collaboration

Community Engagement

• Completed field mappings for geospatial metadata conversion: FGDC to bibliotek-o + Geospatial and Cartographic Resources Ontology (GCRO) extensions (3/2017)
  

Data conversion

• Converted a set of 8,800 Harvard Geospatial Library and 5,100 Stanford Earthworks geospatial metadata records to the target geospatial LOD ontology
• Reconciled agent names, topic keywords, places of publication, and place keywords to linked data entities in the converted data sets
• Data loaded into Harvard geospatial data instance of VitroLib

See Harvard LD4L Labs wiki for documents