Abstract
The Importance of Permanently Preserving Digital Geographic Information
Track: Database Design, Automation, and Management
Author(s): Eunice Gill
In the last few decades our world has experienced fluctuating economic and social infrastructures: buildings have come and gone, towns have grown, road systems proliferated, populations have moved and expanded, farming practices developed; all with the attendant environmental consequences. Over the same time span, this information has been recorded and analysed for governments, latterly by GIS. In order to monitor and evaluate such changes, we need to permanently preserve this record of geographic activity. It has become clear to us that the data creators, the records and information management communities, and the GIS software vendors, need to work together on permanently preserving digital geographic information over time.
Eunice Gill
the National Archives
Kew
Richmond , Surrey TW9 4DU
United Kingdom
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E-mail: eunice.gill@nationalarchives.gov.uk