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Progress on the Management, Curation, and Preservation of Geospatial Data

The theme of “geospatial data management, curation, and preservation” is broad, significant, and timely enough, and is actively a part of the concerns of many organizations—as evidenced by the large number of articles proposed for the theme—that we decided to build three issues to encompass the variety of the important slate of articles received. This issue continues a comprehensive range of research delving into one or more components of the aforementioned theme. Recognizing the increasing use of geospatial data by our diverse communities, the organizations and individuals that are responsible for stewardship of geospatial data are continually challenged to provide support for future use by researchers and others who do not necessarily possess expertise with geospatial data. With such diverse geospatial data users come subsequently diverse uses of digital geospatial data products and services that need to be supported today and into the future. Improvements in policies, programs, procedures, and skills will be needed to ensure that geospatial data products, systems, and services that are being developed today will be available and usable by future communities of users. Various types of geospatial collections, infrastructures and organizations are represented across these first two issues, including libraries, government agencies, and domain repositories, as well as other entities. A variety of international perspectives is also included, illuminating commonalities and differences among the approaches shared by the contributing authors. Beyond the six articles contributed to the prior issue, this one contains five that describe efforts to manage, curate, and preserve geospatial data. We begin with two that take different approaches to geospatial data stewardship. Khayat and Kempler describe efforts being conducted at the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences–Data and Information Service Center (GES DISC) to enable future use of their legacy data and related information from NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS) missions by current and new user communities. The authors describe the need and specifications for providing continuing access to related information that facilitates the use of EOS mission data,