SOLUTIONS / DATA DELIVERY & MANAGEMENT
Global Geography Library+
Global Geography Library+ (GGL+) is a fully customizable platform solution for customers wanting to digitize and platformize their own materials, with the option to add any of East View’s pre-built GGL collections or other data from East View’s vast repository of geospatial resources. With detailed metadata and customizable search tools, GGL+ centralizes data and maximizes discoverability of valuable resources across your entire organization.
Endless Possibilities
GGL+ can accommodate a wide variety of materials and formats, including PDFs and high-resolution IIIF image files, as well as zip files to facilitate downloading and distribution of GIS data. While most GGL collections are map focused, customers can host virtually any content, including data, handbooks, and other internal documents. East View works with customers to normalize metadata and develop customized search facets to facilitate easy discovery of materials.
GGL+ provides your organization with 24/7 access to critical materials and can accommodate multiple access models (IP authentication and/or username/password), with the ability to restrict access to certain materials for different users.
GGL+: More than Just a Scanning Operation
GGL+ is a full service solution and can accommodate everything from a straightforward digitization, to one involving georeferencing, feature extraction, cataloging, and more, with all hosting and maintenance managed by East View. Whatever your needs, East View will work with you to make sure our solutions maximize your organization’s resources.
Proven Track Record
East View has worked with a variety of institutions on digital conversion/hosting projects, including university libraries, academic consortiums, corporate libraries, and large organizations such as state archives, publishers and foundations. Original primary documents are treated with the utmost care to make sure that rare, fragile or one-of-a-kind items are preserved intact wherever possible.
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GGL+ Case Study
Digitization & Platformization for Academic Library
Overview:
Contracted with the John Miller Burnam Classics Library at the University of Cincinnati to create a digital version of the library’s entire collection of paper maps and charts relating to Greece and the surrounding region.
Solution:
- Received over 650 print maps and charts; inventoried and organized items into thematic groups
- Digitized all print materials and conducted OCR (in Greek and English) for items with heavy textual elements
- Mounted maps to GGL+, East View’s secure digital library platform, to facilitate discovery via browsing and search, including faceted search
- Created item-level metadata, including permanent URLs
- Created index maps and geomosaics for all map series in the collection
GGL+ Case Study
Virtual Data Room for Governmental Agency
Overview:
East View Geospatial to build and launch a custom platform to support a branded Virtual Data Room. The VDR will contain searchable OCRed PDFs of specific technical reports, maps, and data to support competitive bid rounds. Also included in the VDR will be downloadable georeferenced maps for GIS workflows.
Solution:
- Scan hardcopy of technical reports where required
- Prepare technical reports for loading to custom platform
- Develop, enhance and/or normalize metadata and create custom search facets
- Extract all maps from the technical reports
- Digitize, georeference and create raster or vector format files for download from the VDR
- Upload high resolution IIIF images of maps to custom platform
- Bulk delivery of georeferenced raster files for all extracted maps
