Using GeoBlacklight for Geospatial Discovery
- Darren Hardy, Stanford University
- Jack Reed, Stanford University
- others?
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Discovery services and metadata have been key challenges for many organizations who provide geospatial data. Even though geospatial discovery services are a critical area in Open Source GIS, solutions are underdeveloped or suffer from usability issues.
GeoBlacklight is a Ruby on Rails platform for building a geospatial discovery application. The aim of the project is to provide a simple, effective open-source application for discovery of geospatial data. Users can search by text, facet, or map to access geospatial resources that can be previewed and downloaded directly. It is open source and community driven, focused on discovery-oriented use cases, and builds upon the Blacklight discovery platform.
In this workshop, participants will learn about GeoBlacklight and see demonstrations of applications in production; how to install an instance on their laptop; and how to customize GeoBlacklight and use its schema to describe geospatial resources.
Variations of this workshop have been given numerous times in the past at digital library technology conferences including Code4Lib, Open Repositories, DLF Forum, Hydra Connect, and Geo4LibCamp. We're looking to expand the reach of the workshop outside of digital library technology audiences.
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