Islandora GIS Solution Pack

Islandora Content Model and Modules for the Management of GIS Material

Functional Requirements

Lafayette College Libraries

(Much of this was identified by John H. Clark, the Data Visualization and GIS Librarian at Lafayette College)

• Managing Base Maps (for interfacing with a Web Mapping Service [e. g. GeoServer])

• Managing TIFF images as datastream content within the repository

• Managing GeoTIFF (georectified) images within the WMS (GeoServer)

  • Should a persistent URI to this be stored somewhere within a RELS-EXT triple to this asset?

• Managing a World file generated from the GeoTIFF (text/plain)

• Managing Feature Sets (for interfacing with a Web Feature Service [GeoServer])

• Managing an ESRI Shapefile

• The zipped contents of the Shapefile should be managed within a datastream (application/zip)

• Should a separate Object also be managed (and linked via RELS-EXT) which could contain the components of a Shapefile, or would this be too complex?

  • In the case that a linked, Shapefile Object is desirable...
  • DBF content should be managed within a datastream (application/dbase) (Please see the following)
  • SHP content should be managed within a datastream (application/x-qgis) (A more preferable MIME type could not be located)
  • SHX content should be managed within a datastream
  • PRJ content should be managed within a datastream

• KML data should be managed within a datatream (application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml) (inline XML)

• GML data may be managed within a datastream (application/gml+xml) (inline XML)

  • For our cases this could, potentially, be derived from the GML Document

• TopoJSON data may be managed within a datastream (application/json) (we intend to use this for JavaScript visualization)

• MODS data should be managed within a datastream (inline XML) (this would follow the schema outlined by contributors to the GeoHydra Project [i. e. GML envelopes and other OGP vocab. terms integrated with a MODS schema])

  • We were intending to request to use an XSL Stylesheet developed by the GeoHydra contributors

University of Toronto Scarborough Campus

(This was posed as a question by Kim Pham of the Digital Scholarship Unit at the UTSC Library)

• Managing Feature Sets (for interfacing with a Web Feature Service [GeoServer])
• Managing an ESRI Shapefile
  • How must .shp.xml content be managed?
  • How must .mxd content be managed?
  • How must .lyr content be managed?

User Stories

Lafayette College Libraries

(Forthcoming)