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July 2024 Program Status Update

Monthly Highlight: New published article about the BTAA-GIN

JMGL

The Journal of Map & Geography Libraries published an article about the BTAA-GIN, "Sustaining a Spatial Collaboration: Leveraging Social Infrastructure to Support Technological Advancement in Geospatial Data Discovery." This article, authored by four Team Members, describes the BTAA-GIN, reviews our history to date, and lays out our future plans.


Full citation: Tickner, A., McElfresh, L. K., Mattke, R., & Majewicz, K. (2024). Sustaining a Spatial Collaboration: Leveraging Social Infrastructure to Support Technological Advancement in Geospatial Data Discovery. Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2024.2388576

Program Activities

Program Management

  • Monitoring the Priority Projects dashboard for the 2024-25 program year.
  • Conducting interviews for new Program and Outreach Coordinator position.
  • Announced opening for graduate student research assistant to start in Fall 2024.

Committees and Workgroups

Note: Most groups did not meet in July due to a planned summer hiatus. Notes below reflect ongoing efforts.

  • Charged a new workgroup to determine using FAST for Subject Terms - kickoff in August
  • Working on Priority Project to Add policies and disclaimers to Geoportal
  • Plan to coordinate with Knowledge committee to visit their monthly meeting to discuss these ideas further
  • Preparing to kickoff new workgroups (Scalable Approaches and Service Models)
  • Reviewing priority projects, assigned owners, and copied them to a new GitHub board for tracking progress
  • Reviewing GBL Admin upload workflow
  • Reviewing "staging area" options

BTAA Geoportal

Analytics Statistics

July 2024 by the numbers

  • Visitors: 4,607
  • Visits: 5,163
  • Downloads: 222
  • Visits with download: 4.3%
  • Outlinks: 928
  • Visits with outlink: 17.97%
  • Num. searches: 706
  • Search keywords: 303
  • Pageviews: 12,221

Unique visitors by month

More stats

See full statistics on our Analytics Dashboard

Top 10 Internal Searches

  1. Sanborn
  2. zoning
  3. contour
  4. election
  5. summit county gis data
  6. lake superior
  7. landuse
  8. housing elections
  9. tiledmaplayer
  10. vote


Collections

Total records as of August 1, 2024: 98,013

Records July 1 2024
BTAA Geoportal Records from 2016 to July 1, 2024

July Harvesting Activities

Collection Records added Records retired Geoportal Link
2024-07-16 Scan ArcGIS Hubs 291 166 nan
2024-07-23 Scan ArcGIS Hubs 251 228 nan
Wisconsin parcels 2024 115 0 https://geo.btaa.org/?f%5Bdct_spatial_sm%5D%5B%5D=Wisconsin&f%5Bschema_provider_s%5D%5B%5D=UW-Madison+Robinson+Map+Library&q=&search_field=all_fields&sort=date_created_dtsi+desc
2024-07-02 Scan ArcGIS Hubs 100 155 https://geo.btaa.org/?f%5Bb1g_geom_import_id_ssi%5D%5B%5D=194&publication_state=%2A
Minnesota Geospatial Commons 05a-01 July 2024 0 0 nan
Socrata harvest Q3 2024 0 0 nan

Development

Geoportal Interface Enhancements:

  • Released update that incorporates thumbnails stored in Amazon S3. We anticipate a performance boost as a result.

GBL Admin Improvements:

  • Enhanced the file ingest interface in GBL Admin interface, including multiple downloads and the ability to specify link type.
  • Now storing thumbnails in S3 for production.

More development details

Read the most recent development reports for more details

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