TECHnology
Section titled “TECHnology”- Charged a new workgroup to determine using FAST for Subject Terms
- Discussed the Harmful Language statement and other policies for the Geoportal footer
June 2024 Program Update
Monthly Highlight: Governance Roadmap Completed
Section titled “Monthly Highlight: Governance Roadmap Completed”This month, we completed our 2023-24 program roadmap, “Revamping the BTAA GIN”.
The purpose of this roadmap was to guide our transition from a “Project” to an ongoing “Program,” with an increased focus on the social infrastructure of our organization. We made strides in four key areas: Governance, Content Management, Asset Management, and Community Support.
- Governance Refresh: We updated our governance framework to reflect our shift to an ongoing program. This involved restructuring our committees and workgroups, developing a priority projects matrix, creating a new mission statement, and establishing goal-setting practices for each institutional partner.
- Content Management: We worked to improve the accessibility, discoverability, and persistence of our public content and documentation. We migrated our website to an open source platform, developed a public Metadata Harvesting Guide, and transferred our working documents to a shared Google Drive.
- Asset Management: We began work to expand our asset management capabilities beyond discovery metadata records for the BTAA Geoportal. We issued a strategic plan for a BTAA geodata collection and enhanced our metadata management toolkit to support file ingest and storage.
- Community Support: We increased our support for the geospatial community by hosting the BTAA GIS Conference in 2023 and Geo4LibCamp in 2024, and by releasing our metadata management toolkit as a public GeoBlacklight plugin.
Program Activities
Section titled “Program Activities”Program Management
Section titled “Program Management”- Posted and advertised the job announcement for new Program and Outreach Coordinator position.
- Updated position description for graduate student research assistant to start in Fall 2024.
- Created a Priority Projects dashboard for the 2024-25 program year.
Committees and Workgroups
Section titled “Committees and Workgroups”
Community Engagement
Section titled “Community Engagement”- Did not meet
- published June blog post
Knowledge
Section titled “Knowledge”- Invited staff from Scholar’s Portal to present at upcoming Team Meeting
- Preparing to kickoff new workgroups (Scalable Approaches and Service Models)
Coordination
Section titled “Coordination”- Ranked priority projects, assigned owners, and copied them to a new GitHub board for tracking progress
- Reviewed DEIA goals
Geodata Pilot Workgroup
Section titled “Geodata Pilot Workgroup”- established GitHub repository with sample datasets
- began discussing minimum metadata requirements
BTAA Geoportal
Section titled “BTAA Geoportal”Top internal search keywords
Section titled “Top internal search keywords”- Land use
- Sanborn
- Montgomery sanborn
- Utah
- Lithuania
- Wisconsin Adams county
- Milwaukee
- Massachusetts sanborn maps
- India roads
- fema
Collections
Section titled “Collections”Total records as of July 1, 2024: 97,662
June Harvesting Activities
Section titled “June Harvesting Activities”| Task | Records added | Records retired |
|---|---|---|
| Reharvest 05b-27029 | 1 | 0 |
| Clean up links for Sanborn Digital Maps 999-0011 | 0 | 2 |
| 10d-03 UW-Madison additions 2024-06 | 16 | 0 |
| HUD portal 1000-0001 manual harvest | 95 | 0 |
| Mich DNR 06a-02 manual harvest | 90 | 0 |
| Carver Co, MN 05b-27019 manual harvest | 38 | 0 |
| MN Geospatial Commons 05a-01 reharvest June 2024 | 5 | 1 |
| 2024-06-25 Scan ArcGIS Hubs | 106 | 0 |
| 2024-06-18 Scan ArcGIS Hubs | 88 | 209 |
| 2024-06-11 Scan ArcGIS Hubs | 147 | 152 |
| 2024-06-04 Scan ArcGIS Hubs | 216 | 201 |
Development
Section titled “Development”Geoportal Interface Enhancements:
- Improved user interface by folding long text values.
- Fixed a bug with the map’s “Click to wake” feature.
GBL Admin Improvements:
- Added tabs for JSON previews and previous versions in the item edit pages.
- Connected GBL Admin to the Amazon S3 storage bucket for asset management, including uploads of zip files and supplemental metadata.
- Implemented a batch process for harvesting thumbnails from remote sources into S3.
- Introduced a lower priority tier for background processing jobs to maintain application performance.
Collaboration with Web Development:
- Configured S3 buckets to allow ingests from GBL Admin.
Next Steps
Section titled “Next Steps”For the 2024-2025 year, our new Priority Projects board will function as our program guide. Projects with higher priorities will be tackled first, with lower priorities later in the year. Projects that are currently in progress or up next include:
- Compile a list of planned lightning talks for Program Team meetings
- Create or update policies and disclaimers for the Geoportal
- Continue the Geodata Pilot
- Kickoff three new workgroups: implementing FAST subjects; Scalable Approaches; Service Models