Program Updates¶
Monthly Highlight: BTAA GIS Conference 2022
By Karen Majewicz
Established in 2020, the BTAA GIS Conference is a virtual event organized by geospatial information users and educators in Big Ten institutions to present their work, exchange information, and develop potential collaborations. It is open to all participants, including those outside the BTAA network.
Monthly Highlight: Item Page Layout Redesign
By Karen Majewicz
We tackled a long standing design wish to utilize full page widths and reduce the white space on item pages. This layout prioritizes item previews, such as a geospatial web service or a IIIF viewer, and provides more options for further adjusting location of the metadata and the access links.
Monthly Highlight: Redesigned Search Results Page
By Karen Majewicz
We redesigned the search results page to emphasize the map and simplify the layout.
Monthly Highlight: GeoBlacklight version 4.0
By Karen Majewicz
During the September GeoBlacklight (GBL) Community Sprint, we released GeoBlacklight version 4.0 . This version provides full support for the OpenGeoMetadata ‘Aardvark’ metadata schema and represents concerted efforts from many in the GBL community - Read more about the release here.
Monthly Highlight: Action Plan
By Karen Majewicz
The Land Acknowledgement Working Group sunsetted in August after submitting their final report along with an Action Plan.
Welcome to Rutgers University
By Karen Majewicz
Rutgers University-New Brunswick officially joined the BTAA-GIN in July 2022.
Project Highlight: Multiple Downloads
By Karen Majewicz
We were recently able to incorporate a long-standing feature request into the BTAA Geoportal interface: multiple downloads per item.
Mapping Chicagoland
By Karen Majewicz
Cecilia Smith, our program team member from the University of Chicago, led a team that received a successful $348,930 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant in April for the proposal “ Mapping Chicagoland .”