Posts Tagged ‘GIS’
Interesting – Geospatial Data Policy
Just a quick note – read this tonight, and found it interesting – CUGIR is the Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository:
“The CUGIR work group recently implemented a data management and distribution policy. A primary motivation in developing the policy was to communicate our data management and distribution practices to our data providers… A secondary purpose in creating the policy was to formalize a security review process that was initiated following a request to disable the entire repository some time after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.” (p. 276)
I can’t help but wonder who asked, and how long after 9/11? Seems like a rational response on behalf of CUGIR to draft such a policy in order to find the balance between civil liberties/access to information/intellectual freedom/and “safety.”
Source:
Steinhart, Gail. (2006). Libraries as distributors of geospatial data: Data management policies as tools for managing partnerships. Library Trends, 55(2), 264-284.
