GeoBlacklight Beta Deployment at Stanford

[Jack Reed]

Greetings,

This message is being sent to several communities so apologies for any cross postings.

We are happy to announce the recent progress on GeoBlacklight and the release of version 0.5.1. For those who don’t know, GeoBlacklight is a discovery application for geospatial data and maps using federated metadata. Over the past few months MIT, Princeton, and Stanford have been actively developing the software and all 3 institutions have beta installations deployed. You can see the progress of the development effort by viewing our sprint ending demos or our feature tour (linked below).

GeoBlacklight Feature Demo 0.4.1

Sprint demos:

 - Sprints 1 & 2 demo

 - Sprint 3 demo

 - Sprints 4 & 5 demo

The Stanford deployed version is currently branded as EarthWorks and is available at https://earthworks.stanford.edu . We invite you to check out the deployed software and would love to hear any feedback. A feedback link is provided at the top of the page. EarthWorks also supports Stanford University users to log in and view restricted Stanford data resources. We view this as a beta release of EarthWorks here at Stanford and want to use the next month for a usability testing study, bug fixes, and improved documentation.

The latest version has a few known bugs which we are working through. Those include:

 - Browser compatibility not fully functional (older IE issues reported)

 - Some users may see reported errors when loading HTTP content (images). We are still navigating the best way to serve federated content/services that may come from HTTP endpoints.

 - Some federated services may not be available. We are currently working on a solution for unavailable federated services. (Integration with GeoMonitor)

Also of note, there are upcoming workshops and a presentation related to GeoBlacklight.

2015 Code4Lib conference (Portland, OR, February 9 - 12 2015 )

 - Delivering and Preserving GIS Data - We will discuss how to set up a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) to deliver GIS data, to manage GIS content in a Fedora repository for preservation, and to establish metadata requirements for good spatial discovery. By the end of the workshop you will have a working SDI!

 - A hands-on introduction to GeoBlacklight  - Learn how to install, run, and customize GeoBlacklight in this hands on workshop

FOSS4G-NA (San Francisco Area, CA, March 9 -12 2015)

 - GeoBlacklight, a new discovery platform for geospatial data

Once again we are excited to hear about feedback on GeoBlacklight/EarthWorks and hope to see some of you at these upcoming conferences.

Best regards and Happy New Year,

Jack Reed

Geospatial Web Engineer

pjr...@stanford.edu

@mejackreed

(650)454-7398

Digital Library Systems and Services

Stanford, CA 94305

[Jack Reed]

Marisa,
Thanks for your message. It's great to here about the new developments at CDL. Of interest might also be the Blacklight-Maps plugin https://github.com/sul-dlss/blacklight-maps

Best,
Jack

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From: "marisa strong64" <marisa....@gmail.com>
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Subject: [hydra-tech] Re: GeoBlacklight Beta Deployment at Stanford

Hi Jack,

Our team here at the CDL will be implementing Hydra/Blacklight on our new
project (formal name still in the works) "Slash" for depositing, sharing,
and discovering data for researchers and others. One piece of
functionality of our current Dash service (dash.cdlib.orb) that UC Irvine
has implemented is a way to define and assign geolocation points to
identify data. As we move forward with our Hydra/Blackllight
implementation, we'll be looking at GeoBlacklight to see how we can
incorporate this functionality in our service.

Looking forward to meeting and working with you in the Hydra community!

Marisa

On Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 3:07:56 PM UTC-8, Jack Reed wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> This message is being sent to several communities so apologies for any
> cross postings.
>
> We are happy to announce the recent progress on GeoBlacklight

> <https://geoblacklight.org> and the release of version 0.5.1. For those

> who don’t know, GeoBlacklight is a discovery application for geospatial
> data and maps using federated metadata. Over the past few months MIT,
> Princeton, and Stanford have been actively developing the software and all
> 3 institutions have beta installations deployed. You can see the progress
> of the development effort by viewing our sprint ending demos or our feature
> tour (linked below).
>
> GeoBlacklight Feature Demo 0.4.1

> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUmbQtWLHGg>
>
> Sprint demos:
> - Sprints 1 & 2 demo <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DpkLsSd3Mc>
> - Sprint 3 demo <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-Go9SNdf3M>
> - Sprints 4 & 5 demo <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_RG6YAhFFs>

>
> The Stanford deployed version is currently branded as EarthWorks and is
> available at https://earthworks.stanford.edu . We invite you to check out
> the deployed software and would love to hear any feedback. A feedback link
> is provided at the top of the page. EarthWorks also supports Stanford
> University users to log in and view restricted Stanford data resources. We
> view this as a beta release of EarthWorks here at Stanford and want to use
> the next month for a usability testing study, bug fixes, and improved
> documentation.
>
> The latest version has a few known bugs which we are working through.
> Those include:
> - Browser compatibility not fully functional (older IE issues reported)
> - Some users may see reported errors when loading HTTP content (images).
> We are still navigating the best way to serve federated content/services
> that may come from HTTP endpoints.
> - Some federated services may not be available. We are currently working
> on a solution for unavailable federated services. (Integration with

> GeoMonitor <https://github.com/geoblacklight/geomonitor>)

>
> Also of note, there are upcoming workshops

> <http://wiki.code4lib.org/2015_Preconference_Proposals> and a
> presentation related to GeoBlacklight.
>
> 2015 Code4Lib conference <http://code4lib.org/conference/2015> (Portland,

> OR, February 9 - 12 2015 )
> - Delivering and Preserving GIS Data

> <http://wiki.code4lib.org/2015_Preconference_Proposals#Delivering_and_Preserving_GIS_Data> -

> We will discuss how to set up a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) to
> deliver GIS data, to manage GIS content in a Fedora repository for
> preservation, and to establish metadata requirements for good spatial
> discovery. By the end of the workshop you will have a working SDI!
> - A hands-on introduction to GeoBlacklight

> <http://wiki.code4lib.org/2015_Preconference_Proposals#A_hands-on_introduction_to_GeoBlacklight>

> - Learn how to install, run, and customize GeoBlacklight in this hands on
> workshop
>

> FOSS4G-NA <https://2015.foss4g-na.org/> (San Francisco Area, CA, March 9

> -12 2015)
> - GeoBlacklight, a new discovery platform for geospatial data

> <https://2015.foss4g-na.org/conference/schedule/session/2015-03-11>

>
> Once again we are excited to hear about feedback on
> GeoBlacklight/EarthWorks and hope to see some of you at these upcoming
> conferences.
>
> Best regards and Happy New Year,
>
> Jack Reed
> Geospatial Web Engineer

> pjr...@stanford.edu <javascript:>

> @mejackreed
> (650)454-7398
> Digital Library Systems and Services
> Stanford, CA 94305
>
>

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[Tom Cramer]

Stephen, Marisa, 

Welcome to the Hydra project! I've taken the liberty of adding DASH / CDL to the list of Hydra sites under development on our Partners and Implementations page. If you have a link to DASH (live site or a project page), it'd be great if we could add it. (It'd be even greater if you added it, in the spirit of a wiki and community!)

We have also been tracking grants related to Hydra (including those that leverage Hydra for sustainability and impact), and I've made an entry in that page based on the excellent description, below. 

Cheers, 

- Tom

On Jan 14, 2015, at 11:39 AM, Stephen Abrams wrote:

Hi:

I wanted to follow up on Marisa's message to provide a bit more background on our Dash project.  Dash is part of our recent initiatives to improve our services for research data curation focusing on the needs of individual researchers rather than institutional librarians.  Architecturally, Dash is an overlay layer that will provide simplified submission and discovery interfaces to (hopefully) *any* repository supporting the SWORD deposit and OAI-PMH protocols, such as our existing Merritt curation repository.

We evaluated a number of potential approaches to the development of Dash.  However, we were very encouraged by the success our UCSD colleagues had in integrating Hydra on top of their locally-developed DAMS, so we decide to follow a similar path in relying on Hydra/Blacklight to provide us with a very robust set of function out-of-the-box.  Our efforts can then be usefully refocused on refining the UI/UX, trying to achieve a figshare-like simplicity and intuitiveness, and replacing the ActiveFedora/Rubydora components with Dash analogs based on SWORD/OAI-PMH rather than the Fedora API.  This approach of deploying complex curation behaviors through the composition of loosely-coupled, protocol-linked components is in line with our long-term interest in microservice architectures.

We're submitting a presentation proposal on the Dash project to OR 2015, where we'll have an opportunity to go into this in more detail.

The Dash project is supported by a grant from the Sloan Foundation.  The work is just starting up, so you should expect to see Marisa and other CDL folks participating more on the mailing lists, IRC, and weekly calls.

--sla

Stephen Abrams

California Digital Library

Stephen...@ucop.edu

+1 510-987-0370