Stanford Geospatial Center Updates

https://slides.com/staceymaples/sgcupdate

https://library.stanford.edu/news/stanford-libraries-planet-labs-collaborate-capture-stanford-universitys-2024-commencement

Colocate² Unconference Summary

• 29 participants explored intersections of Allmaps, GeoBlacklight, and IIIF tools through hands-on sessions and discussions.
• Focus on supporting current users and expanding outreach to new, diverse user communities.
• Participants defined and documented user groups, use cases, and user stories across roles like researchers, librarians, students, and designers.
  Key themes included:
• Balancing discovery vs. analysis in map UIs
• Explorations in 3D mapping and narrative geospatial experiences
  Tool demos & workflows featured:
• Allmaps, IIIF Maps, GeoBlacklight, MapReader, Luna, and Quire
• Policy & infrastructure discussions:
• Integrating Allmaps into institutional discovery/cataloging
• Metadata licensing challenges (e.g., CC0 vs. undefined rights)
  AI/ML breakout:
• Embeddings for enhanced map/image discovery
• Machines Reading Maps to extract place names from map images using ML tools like MapReader

Aeronautical view of the Panama Canal:

https://editor.allmaps.org/#/georeference?url=https%3A%2F%2Fark.digitalcommonwealth.org%2Fark%3A%2F50959%2F4m90fk088%2Fmanifest&image=629c5d450555035c

Esri License Model Reset

• Shifted to all "Named User" licensing model through stanford.maps.arcgis.com 
• Decommissioning our internal license server
• Single-use licensing no longer available for off-network.
• "License checkout" enabled on arcgis.com

• Currently working through complications of provisioning for HIPAA compliance
• Hardware solution is complex

https://clay-foundation.github.io/model/index.html

• Renegotiation of contract has begun
• Redesigning the Master Agreement to allow “on the fly” adds to our order schedule
• SSO implementation is restarted
• Summer “Planet” Boot Camp in planning

Earthsys144 - Fundamentals of GISci