Technology Projects

BTAA-GIN Local Projects

• BTAA Geoportal

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  Our flagship project is a search portal that connects users to digital geospatial resources, including GIS datasets, web services, and digitized historical maps from multiple data clearinghouses and library catalogs.

  Visit the Geoportal

  Read more about the Geoportal's key features and testimonials.

• GBL Admin

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  A GeoBlacklight plugin that provides a complex web-form for editing documents and an CSV-based import/export workflow for OpenGeoMetadata's Aardvark schema.

  GitHub repo

  Watch a demo video.

• GeoBTAA Metadata Handbook

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  Our handbook provides documentation, tutorials, and python recipes for BTAA Geoportal metadata.

  Read the handbook

  Clone the Harvesting Guide.

Current Initiatives

• Geodata Collection

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  The BTAA-GIN has launched an initiative to collect, store, and distribute open geodata.

  Read more about the initiative

• Strategic Technology Plan (2025-6)

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  This initiative involves upgrading, modernizing, and modularizing our technology stack.

  Read more about the initiative

Geospatial Library Community Projects

• GeoBlacklight

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  We contribute code and documentation to the open source geospatial application, GeoBlacklight

  Read about the GeoBlacklight community

  View the open-source code.

• OpenGeoMetadata

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  We contribute metadata analysis, metadata files, and documentation to the OpenGeoMetadata project.

  Learn about the OGM Aardvark metadata schema

  Browse metadata files.