February 11, 2021
Blacklight
Digital library
Digital library architecture
Geospatial
Government information
Maps
Open source
Web
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February 11, 2021
Blacklight
Digital library
Digital library architecture
Geospatial
Government information
Maps
Open source
Web
…
November 9, 2020
Digital library
Digital library architecture
Emerging tech
Engineering
Open source
Stanford Digital Repository
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Here at the Stanford Libraries, we are a big fan of Who’s on First. While the comedy routine by Abbott and Costello is pretty good, here we are talking about the gazetteer project Who’s on First created by the team at Mapzen. The Who’s on First (WoF) gazetteer is a “big list of places” comprising one of the largest and richest compilations of Open and permissively licensed geospatial data.
February 20, 2018
by Jack Reed
Blacklight
Digital library
Digital library architecture
Geospatial
Maps
Open sourc…
Stanford University Libraries is happy to introduce EarthWorks, our new geospatial data discovery application. EarthWorks is a discovery tool for geospatial (a.k.a. GIS) data. It allows users to search and browse the GIS collections owned by Stanford University Libraries, as well as data collections from many other institutions. Data can be searched spatially, by manipulating a map; by keyword search; by selecting search limiting facets (e.g., limit to a given format type); or by combining these options.
A new and exciting addition to the Stanford Digital Repository (SDR) is the data behind the City Nature project. This innovative project combines methodologies from the digital humanities and spatial analysis fields to explore urban nature. Project PIs…