Types of Datasets that are Moved Here
Datasets that have a very limited use case—e.g., a low-use dataset from a municipal or RPC project.
Datasets that have been superseded—meaning they are antiquated and not substantially useful given their replacement.
Datasets that don't have a substantial use case.
Types of Datasets that Aren't Moved Here
Historic datasets that are needed for temporal analysis.
Historic time-stamped static snapshots (e.g., yearly snapshots of a dataset from 2012, 2013, etc.). [Link to Historical Snapshots of VT Parcel Data] [Link to Historical Snapshots of VT E911 GIS Data]
Datasets that are substantially outdated and in need of an update.
How to Browse the Room
Each dataset is contained by a ZIP file. The ZIP files are typically named with this convention:
<Primary ISO-theme*><Secondary ISO-theme*>_<NAME> <data date** as YYYYMMDD, if known>
*First character is capitalized and followed by all-lowercase characters.
**Time period of content or date of last revision.
For example:
TourismTrails_LTSYSTEM 20060601.zip
Datasets are in their master-data data-format (e.g., file geodatabase, shapefile).
The file named A_file-description_list.csv, located in in the room, lists ZIP-file descriptions, noting brief information, such as a date on which a dataset was moved to the archives room (archive date).
ZIP files contain stand-alone metadata files (e.g., .txt, .xml, .htm) when available. Most datasets have hardwired metadata—hardwired meaning that metadata is accessible directly from a data object (e.g., a feature class) via certain software such as ArcGIS Pro.
Tips and Tricks
How to Read a File geodatabase in QGIS Desktop (3.14.1-Pi)
Project | New
Browser pane | Navigate into file geodatabase (.gdb)
Right-click a geodatabase layer | Select Add Layer to Project
Layer is added to canvas (map) and appears in Layers pane
To export the geodatabase layer to another format:
Layers pane | Right-click the layer | Export | Save Features As