Stanford Geospatial Center Updates
- Upgraded EarthWorks to GBL 5
- Added accessibility footer
- Added hierarchy to year facet
- Added export data as CSV
- Added code snippets
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:
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
PGPH-D-24-01775R2
Leveraging Deep Learning Models to Increase the Representation of Nomadic Pastoralists in Health Campaigns and Demographic Surveillance.
PLOS Global Public Health
- 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