GeoBlacklight Updates

[Jack Reed]

Greetings,

Apologies for any cross postings. I wanted to inform the respective communities on recent events regarding the work on GeoBlacklight. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the project, GeoBlacklight is a multi-institutional software project building discovery software for geospatial data. This project is part of a larger effort to preserve, provide access, and enable discovery of geospatial data in digital libraries.

Updates:

1.) We have a new web presence! Please visit http://geoblacklight.org/ for information about the project and it’s various software components. We will be posting more information on the project here as well as progress updates.

2.) The team is pleased to announce that starting in November, concerted software development sprints between Princeton, MIT, and Stanford will begin. These efforts aim to complete designs and basic functionality for an initial release of GeoBlacklight in early 2015. We encourage others who are interested in adopting or collaborating on the software to engage with us in this process on Github (http://github.com/geoblacklight/geoblacklight). For potential adopters especially we will need help in recognizing where our documentation needs improvement. 

3.) Engage with us at conferences! We had a great Birds of a Feather group meeting of OpenGeoportal and GeoBlacklight folks at FOSS4G. Upcoming conferences we will be at:

DLF Forum 2015 (Oct 27-29, 2014, Atlanta, GA)

 - Presentation on GeoBlacklight Tues 28th during “Snapshots” (4-5pm)

Code4Lib 2015 (Feb 9-12, 2015, Portland, OR)

- Proposed preconference workshops:

"Delivering and Preserving GIS Data” - hands on workshop to setup a spatial data infrastructure and add GIS content to your repository

"A hand's on introduction to GeoBlacklight” - workshop where we will install and customize GeoBlacklight

**If you are interested in attending any of these workshops please go to the code4lib wiki and your name as “Interested in attending” **

Please reach out if you have any questions.

Best regards,

Jack Reed
Geospatial Web Engineer
pjr...@stanford.edu
@mejackreed
(650)454-7398
Digital Library Systems and Services
Stanford, CA 94305