What’s Holding Up the Development of Georeferenced DLs? (Panel 1)

Abstract

The implementation of georeferenced digital library technologies in the collection development efforts of various subject domains has been slow in advancing beyond the original geographic and map collections. The panel members will speak from the experience of georeferencing applications in specific subject domains and discuss the issues presented by georeferencing - including aspects of cognition (understanding of the meaning and usefulness of geospatial searching, display, and evaluation), culture (established ways of doing things and identification of geospatial indexing solely with GIS), technologies (e.g., geospatial search functionality and representation of spatial location), and funding (magnitude and availability of funding needed to georeference objects and redesign systems). The session will provide a significant segment of time for discussion among the audience and panelists. The aim is to generate a good exchange of ideas and get closer to understanding the barriers to wide spread integration of georeferencing in DL application domains.