MICHAEL P. FINN & HOLLY K. CARO

The CEGIS Online Bibliography: A Resource for the Working GIScientist

U. S. Department of InteriorU. S. Geological Survey

2010 AAG ANNUAL MEETINGApril 14-18, 2010 – Washington, DC

Outline

MotivationBackgroundTopical AreasTools/ MethodsMetadata and InformationIssuesOpen Source & the GIScience CommunitySummary

Motivation

Organize 10 years of accumulated research information

Create a comprehensive list of all works cited and created by CEGIS

Manage this list as a library that represents a comprehensive bibliography of GIScience

Eventually make the bibliography available on the Internet

Background – Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science (CEGIS)

Established in January 2006CEGIS research is focused on The National

MapConducts, leads, and influences the research

and innovative solutions required by NSDI and the emerging GeoSpatial Web

Virtual center within USGS and with affiliated scientists from other organizations

There are currently 6 PIs

The 8 Layers of The National Map

TransportationStructuresOrthoimageryHydrographyLand CoverGeographic NamesBoundariesElevation

Background – Research Materials

Huge array of hardcopy journal articles – scattered among various files and storage locations

Large volume of digital PDF files – scattered among various folders and server locations

Considerable amount of CEGIS publications-- fortunately, mostly on our website

References collected over email for in-progress projects (coming from the library or other researchers)

No indication of whether an article was referenced by CEGIS work or not

Topical Areas of the Materials

GIScience broadly defined: theory, applications, geospatial data

Topographic mappingLand remote sensingGeographic analysis and monitoring

Tools

After analysis of a few reference management programs, a combination of two programs was selected for the project

EndNote was selected for day-to-day management (single license, user only) Provides faster data input and more navigable search

features, including keywords EndNote was already in use within CEGIS, and familiar to

the researchersWikIndx was selected for exposure to the

GIScience community and the public (open source software) Investigation into other open source reference management

software is ongoing

Building the CEGIS On-Line Bibliography

There were several different mediums of information that had to be dealt with File created for email; flagging system to mark

entered items Stack and file system for hardcopy items; titles

were searched online for faster copy-and-paste entry

Recorded date system for Lotus PDF email archives; similar system for the citations collected from the web

Some methods of collection were only possible from certain locations or at certain times

Metadata and information

1)See if the record already exists2)If it does, update fields as necessary3)If it does not, create it (records entered by copy-and-

paste where possible, or else by hand)

Documentation

EndNote’s fields didn’t always meet the needs of the information we stored, so we had to create our own conventions

This information was stored in a private Wiki for future reference of the CEGIS Bibliography conventions

= number?

= start of range

= number

= range?

“Pages” = range

Journal Article Book

Problems Encountered

Custom fields

Confusion created among the 6 PIs by the reference style display

--Newly installed versions of EndNote will overwrite custom field headings

Copyrights on Abstracts

Initially, there were plans to include abstracts that would create an easy-to-search comprehensive database for CEGIS researchers

Was not possible due to murky copyright lawsCEGIS has a paid subscription through the USGS

library to view databases, but is not permitted to re-host information, including many abstracts

Exporting to WikIndx

Size limits for file on importUnable to read database.

INSERT INTO `WKX_creator` (``) VALUES('') Snyder, J. P. (1985). Computer-assisted map projection research.

U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1629. Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office.

Fields don’t match up from one program to the other Mapping fields from EndNote to WikIndx

Open Source & the GIScience Community

Motivated to share this bibliography with the entire community

Using open source tools (WikIndx), hosted on our webpage, read-only

Completely read/write accessible on Intranet to fellow CEGIS researchers

Summary

Organization of 10 years of accumulated research information

Focused on The National Map, geospatial data, and GIScience broadly

Huge array and volume of source materialEndNote/WikIndx as solutionShared with the entire GIScience

communitywww.zotero.org

MICHAEL P. FINN & HOLLY K. CAROMFINN@USGS.GOV

HKCARO@USGS.GOV

HTTP://CEGIS.USGS.GOV

The CEGIS On-Line Bibliography: A Resource for the Working GIScientist

U. S. Department of InteriorU. S. Geological Survey

2010 AAG ANNUAL MEETINGApril 14-18, 2010 – Washington, DC