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GeoBlacklight, a new discovery platform for geospatial data
Jack Reed @mejackreed
E S R I U S E R C O N F E R E N C E 2 0 1 5
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Photo credit: João Pacheco
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Libraries have a unique opportunity in this space
Stanford Library Reading Room, 1940’s© Stanford University
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Preservation
AccessDiscovery
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Emergence of GeoBlacklight• Focus on the end user
• We found others with the same needs as us
• Do one thing really well
• Collaborative design process
• Align technology stacks
• Build on the foundation of an existing ecosystem
Photo credit: Todd Quackenbush
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GeoBlacklight• A Ruby on Rails Engine, built on the popular open source
discovery platform Blacklight
• Installable with a single command*
$ rails new my-app -m https://raw.githubusercontent.com/geoblacklight/geoblacklight/m
aster/template.rb
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Software Stack
Search platform
GeoBlacklight Application
optional web services
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GeoBlacklight – Built for sustainability• Semantic versioning
• Tested code + code reviews
• Sustainability plan in place
• Customizable with SASS and Twitter Bootstrap
• Developed in partnership between MIT, Princeton, and Stanford. Pull requests welcome!
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Designed for discovery – powerful search using Solr
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Stable search urls, unique resource urls
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Inspect, preview, and download your data
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Other GeoBlacklight features• JSON API
• Plugin ecosystem
• Responsive and accessible
• User authentication and restricted content
• Extendable
• Not just for academia
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Go check out Stanford’s instance of GeoBlacklight!
https://earthworks.stanford.edu
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GeoBlacklight has spawned new software projects• GeoBlacklight-Icons – the icon font used in GeoBlacklight
• GeoBlacklight-Docker – install GeoBlacklight using Docker
• GeoMonitor – A WMS monitoring service that integrates with GeoBlacklight
• GeoCombine – A Ruby toolkit for managing geospatial metadata
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Photo credit: Jay Mantri
The big picture
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OpenGeoMetadata• Uses GitHub as a platform for
metadata sharing and collaboration
• Uva, Princeton, Stanford, Tufts, and Harvard have contributed metadata for over +50,000 layers (+81,000 metadata files)
• Shared toolkits forming around metadata process and transformation in Ruby and Python
💻💻 + 🙋🙋🙇🙇💜💜
https://github.com/OpenGeoMetadata/metadatarepository
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What’s next?
• Delayed jobs, background downloading
• Tighter integration with OpenGeoMetadata
• Dataset grouping support
• Index map feature
• Potential for CSW support
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Thank you.For tutorials, information, and more checkout GeoBlacklight at:
http://geoblacklight.org
Code repositories available at:
https://github.com/geoblacklight
Or on Twitter:@GeoBlacklight