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October 2025 Program Update
BTAA-GIN Team Honored with Best Paper of the Year Award
University of Washington Libraries Joins the BTAA-GIN!
The University of Washington (UW) Libraries is one of the new members of the BTAA-GIN this year.
September 2025 Program Update
We have launched a new series of video tutorials demonstrating common BTAA Geoportal search strategies
August 2025 Program Update
Welcome to Our New GIN Members!
July 2025 Program Update
Introducing Our New Strategic Technology Plan.
June 2025 Program Update
Held in May at the University of Minnesota, Geo4LibCamp 2025 convened over 20 software developers, librarians, curators, researchers, and administrators to share strategies and tools shaping the future of geospatial data services.
Applying Deep Learning Models to BTAA GeoPortal Collections
The boom of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in recent years has made a significant impact on Geographic Information Systems (GIS), including applications of Deep Learning (DL).
May 2025 Program Update
At the 2025 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Conference in Minneapolis, BTAA-GIN members presented a poster highlighting the program's evolution and the social infrastructure.
Leveraging 3D GIS to promotion and discoveries map collection
We are proud and fortunate to possess a map collection featuring over 200,000 items.
April 2025 Program Update
The fifth annual Big Ten GIS Conference, held virtually on April 11, 2025, marked a milestone for BTAA-GIN.
March 2025 Program Update
The BTAA-GIN FAST for Subject Terms Workgroup explored using FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) to improve search and discovery in the BTAA Geoportal.
Building the Historical Maps of New Jersey website
Interview with Michael Siegel, Staff Cartographer, Department of Geography, Rutgers-New Brunswick."
February 2025 Program Update
The BTAA-GIN Geodata Pilot Workgroup has successfully completed its current phase, establishing the technical and metadata infrastructure for a scalable geospatial repository.
Discovery of Geological Maps in the BTAA Geoportal
Geological maps are a valuable resource for understanding characteristics of earth properties through rock and mineral formations.
January 2025 Program Update
We are excited to announce the Big Ten GIS Conference, a free virtual conference happening on April 11, 2025!
December 2024 Program Update
We are thrilled to welcome the University of Oregon and the University of Washington to the Big Ten Academic Alliance Geospatial Information Network (BTAA-GIN).
November 2024 Program Update
The BTAA-GIN Geoportal has reached an impressive milestone: over 100,000 geospatial resources, with a large percentage of this growth happening in the past year alone!
October 2024 Program Update
We are happy to announce that Colleen Wilson has joined the Big Ten Academic Alliance's Geospatial Information Network as our new Associate Director of Program Management and Outreach Coordination.
September 2024 Program Update
A new article titled Ephemeral Geodata: An Impending Digital Dark Age, co-authored by four BTAA-GIN Team Members, was recently published in the *Journal of Map & Geography Libraries*.
August 2024 Program Update
This year, the BTAA-GIN has adopted a new Priority Projects model to streamline our work and focus on the most impactful goals.
July 2024 Program Update
The *Journal of Map & Geography Libraries* published an article about the BTAA-GIN, "Social Infrastructure to Support Technological Advancement in Geospatial Data Discovery."
June 2024 Program Update
This month, we completed our 2023-24 program roadmap, "Revamping the BTAA GIN."
May 2024 Program Update
Allmaps Georeferencing Plugin - The BTAA Geoportal now features a plugin that integrates the Allmaps georeferencing platform for scanned maps hosted via IIIF.
April 2024 Program Update
New OpenIndexMaps for historical Mississippi River atlases. We recently added five OpenIndexMaps for [19th century atlases of the Mississippi River.
March 2024 Program Update
We had the honor of being invited by Yale University Libraries to present our expertise in GeoBlacklight, OpenGeoMetadata, and the BTAA Geoportal to their Associate University Librarians.
February 2024 Program Update
We are pleased to announce that Northwestern University has become a member of the BTAA-GIN.
January 2024 Program Update
New records from University of Chicago institute
December 2023 Program Update
Our Program Website Has a New Home! We migrated of our program website from Google Sites to a static site hosted on GitHub.
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