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"![logo](geoblacklight-logo.png)\n",
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"\n",
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"### GeoBlacklight Community\n",
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"\n",
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"- Colocate² Unconference\n",
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"- February 26, 2025\n",
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"- Karen Majewicz"
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"## A Community of Geospatial Problem-Solvers\n",
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"- More than just software\n",
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"- People + shared workflows & metadata\n"
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"## Community Characteristics\n",
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"- Rails devs, GIS experts, metadata librarians\n",
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"- Various scopes: single institution or multi-institution\n",
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"- Shared OpenGeoMetadata profile"
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"## A Brief History\n",
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"- Began ~10 years ago with dev/metadata collab\n",
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"- Monthly meetings launched in 2017\n",
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"- Grown to 13+ known instances"
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"## GBL + IIIF\n",
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"- Initially used mostly for GIS data\n",
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"- Competing standards (MARC vs. FGDC/ISO)\n",
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"- Community enhancements for multi-part maps\n",
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"- Allmaps plugin merges historical maps & GIS"
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]
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},
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"### GeoBlacklight is one of the best platforms for unifying discovery of both maps and data."
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]
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"## GeoBlacklight Named Projects\n",
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"- Codebase (extended from Blacklight)\n",
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"- Plugins & Docker tools\n",
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"- Documentation site on GitHub Pages"
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"## Community Activity Cycles\n",
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"- Monthly meetings (updates, shared issues)\n",
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"- Quarterly GitHub triage\n",
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"- Biannual sprints (code, docs, metadata)\n",
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"- Workgroups (governance, usability, georeferencing)"
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]
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"## Community Roles\n",
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"- Moving away from single coordinator\n",
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"- Administrative, Documentation, Technical"
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"## Core Challenges\n",
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"- Small/niche user base → few active contributors\n",
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"- Consensus governance → decision uncertainty\n",
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"- Equity concerns (resource disparities)\n"
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"## Technical Barriers to Adoption\n",
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"- Tech barriers (Ruby on Rails vs. Python/JS skill sets)\n",
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"- No built-in repository → extra setup\n",
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"- GBL not one-size-fits-all → not a fit for all use cases\n"
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"## Geo4Libraries Rebrand\n",
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"- Moving beyond a single software\n",
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"- Focus on shared needs, metadata, & domains\n",
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"- Provide a formal “home” for:\n",
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" - OpenGeoMetadata (Aardvark schema)\n",
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" - OpenIndexMaps (GeoJSON for index maps)\n",
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" - Geo4LibCamp (annual unconference)"
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"## Umbrella Organization\n",
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"- Broader contributor base & shared leadership\n",
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"- Support emerging tools (e.g., Allmaps Curator)\n",
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"- “Enduring data, ephemeral applications”"
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"## Conclusion\n",
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"- GBL evolved from a small dev-librarian group\n",
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"- Facing governance & sustainability hurdles\n",
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"- Umbrella approach = shared leadership & synergy"
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