Grant to fund Austin Post glaciology photography access
August 9, 2012
Vicky Wolf, user support supervisor at the , was awarded a mini-grant of $5,000 in the annual FUNding Friday competition at a
recent Federation of Earth Science Information Partners meeting.
The grant was awarded for a poster proposing to generate metadata to community standards
for the Austin Post Glacial Photography Collection held by the . Wolf proposed making the photo collection available online in formats compatible
with OpenSearch tools and RSS feeds that would enable a broad range of users access
to the work.
The ESIP Federation is a broad-based, volunteer community of researchers and associated
groups that produce, interpret and develop applications for Earth and environmental
science data.
For more information contact Amy Hartley at amy.hartley@gi.alaska.edu.