May 2024 Program Status Update¶
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.
![Manchester Ship Canal.](../../img/allmaps-1.png)
![Manchester Ship Canal.](../../img/allmaps-2.png)
Program Activities¶
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¶
- 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
- Collecting lightning talk ideas
- Collecting BTAA LibGuides related to geospatial
- Reviewed blog post submissions
- Shared charters for two subgroups: Scalable Approaches and Service Models to coordinate the top research priorities
- Analyzed priority projects using a matrix combining Team Member votes, difficulty, time commitment, presence of owners/volunteers, and DEIA.
- 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¶
Analytics Statistics¶
May 2024 by the numbers
- Visitors: 5,465
- Visits: 6,202
- Downloads: 572
- Visits with download: 9.22%
- Outlinks: 1,228
- Visits with outlink: 19.80%
- Num. searches: 2,457
- Search keywords: 446
- Pageviews: 14,967
More stats
See full statistics on our Analytics Dashboard
Top 10 Internal Searches¶
- flood
- sanborn
- wildfire
- fish
- salmon
- geology
- fire
- hawaii
- trout
- Maryland DNR
- plants
Collections¶
Total records as of June 1, 2024: 97,280
![Records June 1 2024](../../img/records-2024-06.png)
May Harvesting Activities¶
Development¶
- Added a new "Georeferenced via Allmaps Plugin" facet
- Continuing work on managing file assets and thumbnail derivatives in GBL Admin
More development details
Read the most recent Development Tasks report for more details.
Next Steps¶
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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.