May 2024 Program Update
Monthly Highlight: Allmaps Georeferencing Plugin
Section titled “Monthly Highlight: Allmaps Georeferencing Plugin”The BTAA Geoportal now features a plugin that integrates the Allmaps georeferencing platform for scanned maps hosted via IIIF. For maps that have already been georeferenced, users will find a second tab on the item page that displays the map over a basemap. For maps not yet georeferenced, users can use a widget in the sidebar to open the map in the Allmaps interface.
Users can find these items with a new facet, which will filter all of the maps hosted via IIIF with a count of how many have been georeferenced. In addition to enhancing user experience, this new feature can facilitate georeferencing sprints.
Program Activities
Section titled “Program Activities”Program Management
Section titled “Program Management”- Team members voted on priority projects for the coming year.
- Continued including lightning talks during Team Meetings. Karen Majewicz presented on using Markdown for documentation, reports, and our program website.
- Completed job description for new Program and Outreach Coordinator position.
Committees and Workgroups
Section titled “Committees and Workgroups”
TECHnology
Section titled “TECHnology”- Updated the OCLC record for the BTAA Geoportal
- Added the Harmful Language statement to the Geoportal footer
- Reviewed the AllMaps plugin interface implications and ideas for hosting georeferencing sprints
Community Engagement
Section titled “Community Engagement”- Collecting lightning talk ideas
- Collecting BTAA LibGuides related to geospatial
- Reviewed blog post submissions
Knowledge
Section titled “Knowledge”- Shared charters for two subgroups: Scalable Approaches and Service Models to coordinate the top research priorities
Coordination
Section titled “Coordination”- Analyzed priority projects using a matrix combining Team Member votes, difficulty, time commitment, presence of owners/volunteers, and DEIA.
Geodata Pilot Workgroup
Section titled “Geodata Pilot Workgroup”- testing simple datasets in Amazon S3 buckets
- testing reports from Python and QGIS to produce readme files and attribute table lists for shapefiles
BTAA Geoportal
Section titled “BTAA Geoportal”Top internal search keywords
Section titled “Top internal search keywords”- flood
- sanborn
- wildfire
- fish
- salmon
- geology
- fire
- hawaii
- trout
- Maryland DNR
- plants
Collections
Section titled “Collections”Total records as of June 1, 2024: 97,280
May Harvesting Activities
Section titled “May Harvesting Activities”| Task | Records added | Records retired |
|---|---|---|
| 05a-01 April 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 05a-01 May 2024 | 2 | 3 |
| 08c-01 May 2024 | 31 | 12 |
| 08f-01 Q2 2024 | 2 | 0 |
| 11a-01 GeOhio reharvest | 267 | 315 |
| 99-1400 Humanitarian Data Exchange reharvest Q2 2024 | 2329 | 614 |
| Add 05b-27057 (Hubbard Co, MN) back to Hub list and reharvest | 8 | 0 |
| Add 05b-27139 (Scott Co, MN) back to Hub list and reharvest | 50 | 0 |
| Add Sherburn County, MN 05b-27141 to ArcGIS Harvest | 1 | 0 |
| ArcGIS Hub Harvest 2024-05-22 | 140 | 677 |
| ArcGIS Hub Harvest 2024-05-28 | 166 | 806 |
| ArcGIS Hub Harvest 2024-05-31 | 133 | 0 |
| Deprecate 11a-04 | 0 | 1 |
| Harvest 05b-27083 | 20 | 0 |
| Harvest 05b-27149 | 1 | 0 |
| Harvest sherburne county | 44 | 0 |
| New ingest OGM UW Milwaukee | 777 | 0 |
| Reharvest 02a-01 Q2 2024 | 1 | 0 |
| Reharvest OGM UW Madison | 144 | 0 |
| Remove Stanford ISO link | 0 | 2 |
| Socrata harvest Q2 2024 | 1 | 0 |
Development
Section titled “Development”- Added a new “Georeferenced via Allmaps Plugin” facet
- Continuing work on managing file assets and thumbnail derivatives in GBL Admin
Next Steps
Section titled “Next Steps”-
We are nearing completion of our next steps on our Revamping the BTAA GIN: a Program Roadmap (2023-2024). Our final task is to fill in the priority projects matrix for the coming year.
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Advertise the the new Program and Outreach position.