{"id":83552,"date":"2018-09-20T20:20:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T03:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcuser&#038;p=83552"},"modified":"2024-05-28T15:52:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T22:52:25","slug":"opening-access-to-university-scholarship-through-spatial-discovery","status":"publish","type":"arcuser","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/opening-access-to-university-scholarship-through-spatial-discovery","title":{"rendered":"Opening Access to University Scholarship through Spatial Discovery"},"author":1432,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[171,551,254782],"tags":[21902,10332,138062,1281,20392],"arcuser_issues":[63152],"class_list":["post-83552","arcuser","type-arcuser","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-imagery","category-open-data-2","tag-archaeology","tag-imagery","tag-science","tag-visualization","tag-web-gis","arcuser_issues-summer-2017"],"acf":{"short_description":"The UCSB Open Data site provides spatial views of scholarship that give the campus community new perspectives on research.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Open Data site provides spatial views of scholarship that give the campus community new perspectives on research. The community now has a better understanding of where in the world research is happening and what that research is about.\r\n\r\nUCSB, in partnership with the UCSB Library and Esri, launched the site to showcase campus research. For the first time, datasets and publications across campus departments\u2014such as marine biology, archaeology, and political science\u2014are geographically referenced, discoverable, and accessible through one platform.\r\n<h2>Bridging Disciplines<\/h2>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":83562,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"In the 1990s, the University of California, Santa Barbara, advanced the vision for a spatially enabled digital library through the Alexandria Digital Library project. The goal was to provide access to diverse materials with functionality for spatiotemporal search.\r\n\r\nBeginning in 2015, a team of academic researchers revived this vision by making their published datasets and papers spatially discoverable. This effort was supported by the UCSB Library, the Center for Spatial Studies, and the Spatial Discovery Fund. Research materials that range from imagery and scanned environmental impact reports to dynamic citizen science data are now available through one search interface.\r\n\r\nSince the site\u2019s creation, more than 115 datasets have been exposed. These datasets include data about the campus, such as layers from the university\u2019s Interactive Campus Map, along with feature services, reports, and imagery used by campus researchers.\r\n\r\nThe UCSB Open Data site bridges disciplines. It identifies areas of the world for which research data is available, regardless of the discipline or data format. Research data is often organized by discipline (e.g., biology data portal) or theme (e.g., art catalog). Data is less likely to be described and organized spatially.\r\n\r\nThis is a missed opportunity. The spatial organization of campus research cuts across disciplines and formats and offers interdisciplinary views of campus scholarship that promote collaboration.\r\n\r\nFor example, campus researchers from several departments work in the Mesoamerican region, yet data about archaeological excavations, contested political borders, and land-cover type were not discoverable in one place until recently. Datasets that overlap in their geographic extents are now discoverable. This encourages data sharing and linking across disciplines. Relevant publications or other documents that reference the datasets are now also linked to the datasets. This additional context aids in discovery.\r\n<h2>New Ways of Sharing<\/h2>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":83572,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"To support this effort, the authors developed a protocol that allows researchers to provide key metadata elements to geographically reference their resources, making observation locations explicit. In this way, diverse resources hosted across various university repositories can be made spatially discoverable.\r\n\r\nArcGIS Open Data supports a wide range of data formats, including URL links to externally hosted content and nongeographic formats, such as documents, images, and tables. Once described spatially, these datasets referenced in research papers are indexed and made discoverable alongside traditional spatial data. Because all formats contributed by researchers are supported by ArcGIS Open Data, they are also amenable to exploration and analysis in various web-based geographic information systems.\r\n\r\nAccess and contributions to the open data site are mediated by ArcGIS Online. Users do not need credentials to browse, download, or manipulate data from the site. To contribute, researchers from the campus community follow a simple and extensible workflow to describe and expose their research as data services.\r\n\r\nThis approach also offers a more dynamic means of sharing research products, allowing researchers to publish and maintain control of their original material through any means mandated by academic journals or grants while still sharing their research with a broader audience.\r\n\r\nIt also reduces demand for libraries to provide metadata curation and data hosting through repositories. Data shared through the ArcGIS Open Data site increases the visibility of campus scholarship. The UCSB Open Data site not only enables geographic views of research but also connects the data to publications about them, allowing users to learn more about the research data in context regardless of which department or repository hosts them.\r\n<h2>Expanding the Use of Spatial Discovery<\/h2>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":83582,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"UCSB\u2019s Open Data site acts as a one-stop shop for browsing and accessing data. As the amount of research data available through UCSB Open Data continues to grow, discovery of campus research is also increasing across a broader community. Recent efforts to produce a self-organizing map of campus research based on the subject descriptions of dissertations have yielded interesting insights into clusters of research themes.\r\n\r\nExpanding the notion of spatial discovery to such topic spaces offers another spatial view of data that is nongeographic. Coupling topic modeling with geographic views of research obtained from geoparsing text descriptions of research enables the spatial discovery of university scholarship through both geographic and topic spaces.\r\n\r\nFor more information, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/discovery-ucsb.opendata.arcgis.com\/\">UCSB Open Data<\/a>\u00a0or contact Sara Lafia at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:slafia@geog.ucsb.edu\">slafia@geog.ucsb.edu<\/a>."},{"acf_fc_layout":"pdf","file":83592}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Opening Access to University Scholarship through Spatial Discovery | Summer 2017 | ArcUser<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The UCSB Open Data site provides spatial views of scholarship that give the campus community new perspectives on research.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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