PDC metadata currently only accepts a bounding box of coordinates for the data’s location but there is a limitation to this. For example, this metadata record
www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch/PDCSearchDOI.jsp?doi_id=13077, provided by the researcher actually consists of only 5 monitoring stations from the United States, one of the stations is located in Alaska. However, since we are limited to bounding boxes in PDC, WAMEDEX will highlight all of Canada as being studied by the researcher. This is not an accurate representation of the study area. This is not ideal for many of the data we are collecting at UW. We need to have options to include, point coordinates, shapefile and bounding boxes within the PDC system.
PDC metadata currently only accepts a bounding box of coordinates for the data’s location but there is a limitation to this. For example, this metadata record
www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch/PDCSearchDOI.jsp?doi_id=13077, provided by the researcher actually consists of only 5 monitoring stations from the United States, one of the stations is located in Alaska. However, since we are limited to bounding boxes in PDC, WAMEDEX will highlight all of Canada as being studied by the researcher. This is not an accurate representation of the study area. This is not ideal for many of the data we are collecting at UW. We need to have options to include, point coordinates, shapefile and bounding boxes within the PDC system.