University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Spatial access to, and display of, global change data: Avenues for libraries

Hill, Linda L.

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Title
Spatial access to, and display of, global change data: Avenues for libraries
Author(s)
Hill, Linda L.
Issue Date
1996
Keyword(s)
  • Global Change Data and Information System
  • Geospatial information retrieval
Abstract
Geospatial retrieval systems are considered in the framework of the U.S. Global Change Data and Information System (GCDIS), a cooperative effort of a set of federal agencies that have vast amounts of data and information relevant to the global change user community. The characteristics of an ideal geospatial retrieval system are proposed and five existing systems are described as examples of the types of spatial retrieval available today. Existing systems fall far short of the ideal system envisioned but show exciting promise. Librarians can participate in the evaluation of these systems and in the evolving development of GCDIS through the Library Information Subgroup of the Global Change Data Management Working Group.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Geographic information systems and libraries: patrons, maps, and spatial information [papers presented at the 1995 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, April 10-12, 1995]
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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1995: Geographic information systems and libraries: patrons, maps, and spatial information PRIMARY
32nd Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1995). Edited by Linda C. Smith and Myke Gluck.