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Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Participants." National Research Council. 1999. Distributed Geolibraries: Spatial Information Resources, Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9460.
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Appendix A Workshop Participants

Prudence S. Adler, Assistant Executive Director, Association of Research Libraries

Timothy M. Alexander, Consultant, Washington, D.C.

William Y. Arms, Vice President, Corporation for National Research Initiatives

James Barrett, Space Imaging Corporation

Gerald S. Barton, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Francis P. Bretherton, Director, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin

Don Buhler, Bureau of Land Management

Barbara P. Buttenfield, Department of Geography, University of. Colorado

Nicholas Chrisman, Department of Geography, University of Washington

David J. Coleman, Chairman, Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, University of New Brunswick, Canada

Donald F. Cooke, President, Geographic Data Technology, Inc.

Frederic W. Corle II, Partner, Potomac Research Group

Max J. Egenhofer, Department of Spatial Information, Science and Engineering, University of Maine

John D. Evans, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Christos Faloutsos, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University

Gary Fitzpatrick, Library of Congress

Michael J. Folk, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois

Kenneth E. Foote, Department of Geography, University of Texas

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Participants." National Research Council. 1999. Distributed Geolibraries: Spatial Information Resources, Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9460.
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Alan M. Gaines, Earth Sciences Division, National Science Foundation

Kenn Gardels, Director, Research Program in Environmental Planning and Geographic Information Systems, University of California, Berkeley

Henry L. Garie, Department of Environmental Protection, State of New Jersey (President, National States Geographic Information Council)

Barry J. Glick, President, GeoSystems Global Corporation (MapQuest)

Michael F. Goodchild, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University of California, Santa Barbara

Stephen Griffin, Digital Libraries Initiative, National Science Foundation

Wayne A. Hallada, Defense Intelligence Agency

Linda L. Hill, Alexandria Digital Library, University of California, Santa Barbara

Thomas M. Holm, EROS Data Center, U.S. Geological Survey

Sally Howe, Associate Director, National Coordination Office for Computing, Information, and Communications

Robert E. Kahn, President, Corporation for National Research Initiatives

Thomas A. Kalil, Senior Director, National Economic Council, Executive Office of the President

Karen Kemp, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University of California, Santa Barbara

Annette J. Krygiel, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University

Nand Lal, Digital Libraries Initiative, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Nina S-N. Lam, Department of Geography, Louisiana State University

Roberta E. Lenczowski, Deputy Director for Operations, National Imagery and Mapping Agency

Michael E. Lesk, Director, Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation

Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information

David M. Mark, Department of Geography, State University of New York, Buffalo

Patrick McGlamery, Map and Geographic Information Center, University of Connecticut

Eric Miller, Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

John Moeller, Executive Director, Federal Geographic Data Committee, U.S. Geological Survey

Joel Morrison, Geography Division, Bureau of the Census

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Participants." National Research Council. 1999. Distributed Geolibraries: Spatial Information Resources, Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9460.
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Douglas D. Nebert, Federal Geographic Data Committee, U.S. Geological Survey

Robert Neches, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California

Harlan J. Onsrud, Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering University of Maine

Hedy C. Rossmeissl, National Mapping Division, U.S. Geological Survey

Walter Senus, Chief Scientist, National Imagery and Mapping Agency

Ben A. Shneiderman, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland

Karen C. Siderelis, Director, North Carolina Center for Geographic Information and Analysis

Terence Smith, Alexandria Digital Library, University of California, Santa Barbara

Gale TeSelle, Information Technology Division, Natural Resources Conservation Service

Rex W. Tracy, Vice President, GDE Systems, Inc.

Robert Tufts, TASC

A. Keith Turner, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines

Ferris Webster, College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware (Chair, ICSU Panel on World Data Centers)

Frederick Weingarten, Computing Research Association

James F. Williams II, Dean of Libraries, University of Colorado

Maria Zemankova, Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation

NRC Staff

Thomas M. Usselman, Study Director, Mapping Science Committee, National Research Council

Jennifer T. Estep, Administrative Assistant, Mapping Science Committee, National Research Council

Molly Vogt, Workshop Assistant, National Geographic Society

Suggested Citation:"Appendix A: Workshop Participants." National Research Council. 1999. Distributed Geolibraries: Spatial Information Resources, Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9460.
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A distributed geolibrary is a vision for the future. It would permit users to quickly and easily obtain all existing information available about a place that is relevant to a defined need. It is modeled on the operations of a traditional library, updated to a digital networked world, and focused on something that has never been possible in the traditional library: the supply of information in response to a geographically defined need. It would integrate the resources of the Internet and the World Wide Web into a simple mechanism for searching and retrieving information relevant to a wide range of problems, including natural disasters, emergencies, community planning, and environmental quality. A geolibrary is a digital library filled with geoinformation-information associated with a distinct area or footprint on the Earth's surface-and for which the primary search mechanism is place. A geolibrary is distributed if its users, services, metadata, and information assets can be integrated among many distinct locations.

This report presents the findings of the Workshop on Distributed Geolibraries: Spatial Information Resources, convened by the Mapping Science Committee of the National Research Council in June 1998. The report is a vision for distributed geolibraries, not a blueprint. Developing a distributed geolibrary involves a series of technical challenges as well as institutional and social issues, which are addressed relative to the vision.

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