Author: Jack Reed

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.

New updates to EarthWorks with more access to data

by Jack Reed • February 18, 2018 • Comments Off

February 20, 2018

by Jack Reed

Blacklight
Digital library
Digital library architecture
Geospatial
Maps
Open sourc…

Introducing EarthWorks, Stanford’s new GIS data discovery application

by Jack Reed • April 22, 2015 • Comments Off

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.

SDR Deposit of the Week: City Nature

by Jack Reed • October 14, 2014 • Comments Off

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…