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Cultivating Information Stewardship at Harvard GSD: Enhancing Data Management for Future Leaders

Harvard Graduate School of Design fosters a culture of information stewardship to train architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning students in understanding places, developing alternative futures, and leading environmental efforts. Through collaborative studio projects, students collect and synthesize data, but face challenges in organization and metadata. The initiative emphasizes best practices, documentation, tools, and motivation for effective data management. 8

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Cultivating Information Stewardship at Harvard GSD: Enhancing Data Management for Future Leaders

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  1. Developing a Culture of Information Stewardship At the Graduate School of Design

  2. Harvard Graduate School of Design • Students: • 250 Architecture • 100 Landscape Architecture • 150 Urban Planning and Design

  3. Harvard Graduate School of Design • Mission: Train Students • To Understand Places • To develop and communicate alternative futures • To lead firms and agencies associated with shaping the future of the environment.

  4. Studio Culture:An Engine for Place-Based Information Each Term: Entire School deployed on 20 Place-Based Studio Projects. Collaborative groups of 9-15 students.

  5. Studio/Thesis Information Lifecycle Start Semester Finish • Collect Information: • Site Photos • GIS Data • CAD Data • Documents • Synthesis / Study: • Maps • Digital 3D Models • Physical 3D Models • GIS Models • Presentation Materials: • Maps • 3D Models • Animations • Documents Lack of Predictable Organization and Metadata End of Term

  6. Promoting a Culture of Information Stewardship • Develop and document best practices for filing place-based data collections • Provide tools for tagging collections and files with metadata including spatial and temporal references • Provide tools for cataloging and searching collections of data temporally and spatially • Motivate collaborators and leaders to organize their data well

  7. Information Stewardship Best Practices • Documentation: • Beginning your Place-Based Data Collection • http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/gis/manual/beginning • Tools: • MapCat collection metadata tool • http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/gis/ma • Motivation: • Increased productivity of collaborators • Preservation of value in information assets

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