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This document encapsulates key discussions and insights from the National Geospatial Digital Archive Partners Meeting held on January 17, 2006, in San Diego. It addresses various topics including content acquisition contracts, format registry development, the impact of new geographic exploration technologies like Google Earth, and challenges in format information documentation. The meeting highlighted the need for a comprehensive format registry and collaborative efforts in collecting and refining format specifications for geospatial data, including popular formats like GeoTIFF and ESRI.
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National Geospatial Digital Archive University of California, Santa Barbara and Stanford University NDIIPP Partners Meeting, San Diego, Jan. 17, 2006
Questions and Answers • Surprises • Contracts for content acquisition • Lack of format information • Never thought we’d do a format registry • Change in our area and implications • Geographic Exploration Systems arrive! • Google Earth, World Wind, Windows Live Local
Format Registry • Descriptive semantics of file formats. • Pulling from other format registries for standard file formats. • Format specifications collected on an “as-needed” basis. • Extensive file format information for DOQs, DRGs, ESRI formats, and GeoTIFF.
Community WIKI Staff Name + Description + File ext + Supporting documentation + spec files open staff application Name + Description + File ext + Supporting documentation + spec files Refinement System Index.xml + spec files Web Directory "Formats Manager" application NGDA Server Archivas 25 geospatial formats to date Format Registry