Identification

Title

Modernizing library metadata for historical weather and climate data collections

Abstract

For libraries to become more visible and integral within the scientific data ecosystem, they must find ways to connect with external communities, systems, and standards. The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Library contains over 300 titles in its collection that are primarily scientific data. The items in this collection are largely bound paper historical weather records published and distributed by various national and regional weather bureaus. This paper presents a project within the NCAR Library that made these data assets more visible and discoverable for the weather and climate research community. The project centered around the development of an assessment framework, based on geospatial and temporal ranges, with which to prioritize items within the collection for MARC-based metadata upgrades. The second component of this project focused on making these assets more visible outside of the NCAR Library catalog by contributing metadata records to a cross-NCAR data search and discovery system. We present an approach to conducting a transformation from MARC to the ISO 19115 geospatial metadata standard, and discuss how to make this transform more robust. If the value and utility of library-housed data collections like these are to be fully realized, library metadata must circulate beyond the traditional boundaries of library institutions.

Resource type

document

Resource locator

Unique resource identifier

code

http://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d71v5hm7

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

geoscientificInformation

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Text

originating controlled vocabulary

title

Resource Type

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2018-02-28T00:00:00Z

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

OpenSky Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Library

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

opensky@ucar.edu

web address

http://opensky.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact