GIS and Data Service Center

McKeldin Library is one of the largest buildings on campus, consisting of seven floors and a basement. The library has more than 2,400 stacks and more than 2 million print collections. McKeldin Library also serves as a regional Federal Depository Library, housing the U.S. Government Information, Maps & GIS Services collection. It is quite daunting for a patron to find a particular book/stack/call number or any other point of interest (study rooms, computer labs, digital support, restrooms, and other building amenities). Partnering with the Campus GIS services unit in Facilities Management, the GIS and Spatial Data Center is supporting the Libraries’ effort to develop a mobile application (i.e., Wayfinding) using ArcGIS Indoors and ArcGIS IPS - a GIS-based solution for indoor mapping and navigation. This is a GIS data-heavy project that involves mobile data collection, QCing CAD and GIS data, Bluetooth beacon installation and IPS (Indoor Positioning System) setup. The project team is composed of library staff and the Campus GIS team with technical support from Esri.

The STEM Library at UMD Libraries has collected plant patent metadata from various sources and built a web-based database allowing users to search by patent number, title words, inventor names, and US Patent Classification “PLT” codes. This database is periodically updated (more information on project history) that contains color images for US Plant patents, with links to the US Patent and Trademark Office. GIS and Spatial Data Center is leveraging GIS to develop a web map application to visualize plant patent metadata. The application will showcase maps showing locations of plant patents origins, metadata pop-ups for each plant patent, data filtering etc. Here is the recent most release of the portal: https://go.umd.edu/p3

GIS Librarian and GIS student staff are collaborating with researchers from University of Illinois Urbana to explore spatio-temporal relationship between urban temperature and crime rates in the City of Chicago. Key focuses are: comparing model outputs from the Weather Research Forecast model (WRF) with daily crime data in the City of Chicago, identify heat stress locations and devise heat mitigation solutions that can help in reducing violence. The overall goal of the research is to explore, analyze and identify seasonal patterns of crimes as well as locations sensitive to temperature change.

The Map Collection at McKeldin Library is located on the fourth floor. We have over 350,000 maps, most of which were produced by U.S. government agencies and came to us through the Federal Depository Library Collection that includes USGS Topographic maps, Soil maps, CIA, Aeronautical maps, Forest Service maps, Historical maps, National Geographic maps, among others. Coverage includes all of the U.S. states, most of the U.S. territories and possessions, and some areas outside of the United States. GIS student staff and Map Volunteer are working together to showcase georeferenced map cabinets and collections on the fourth floor as an interactive story-map to make print map collection more visible to UMD community and beyond. We are also actively developing a 3D tour to provide an immersive user experience to explore McKeldin map collection.

Link to the StoryMap of McKeldin Map Collection 

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/12be77b7a7ab4e068cb909b0ba75c6d4

Current version of the 3D tour

https://mapcollection3d.umd.edu/

The GIS and Spatial Data Center is proud to be a part of the Vaccine Mapping Project. Milan Budhathoki (GIS Librarian) is the lead developer of this project in collaboration with researchers from the University of Michigan.There are more than 300 vaccine candidates for COVID-19 in development. This dashboard will be continuously updated with public information on COVID-19 vaccines aggregated from various sources and annotated to support meta analyses.