EarthWorks.stanford.edu

geospatial data is different

it has geometry
and scale
and extent
and temporality

It's difficult to find

It's difficult to evaluate

It's difficult to access

EarthWorks is Stanford's simple, effective web application for discovery of geospatial data

EarthWorks
focuses on discovery of geospatial data.
not analysis

find it
evaluate it
access it

in EarthWorks you search for geospatial data with a map!

search results are ranked based on the
map scale and extent!

preview the data in the application

exposes
attributes and
metadata

federated search allows you to discover geospatial data from other institutions
(harvard, tufts, mit, berkeley, columbia...)

Why is EarthWorks different?

EarthWorks
is built
for libraries
by libraries

EarthWorks begins with
preservation

EarthWorks is powered by the SDR
(Stanford Digital Repository)

The SDR is Stanford's Fedora-based preservation repository for scholarly content

The SDR treats digital assets as durable assets

every data deposit in the SDR gets a PURL!
(persistent URL)

PURLs make geospatial data citable and accessible in perpetuity

EarthWorks makes geospatial data discoverable

and the
Stanford Spatial Data Infrastructure (SSDI) that drives EarthWorks...

...makes geospatial data operational!

The SSDI is based upon the
OpenGEO Suite
PostgreSQL
PostGIS
GeoServer

The SSDI exposes live OGC spatial data services
(WFS, WMS, etc...)

so the same infrastructure that preserves our geospatial data can drive data to applications

let's hack EarthWorks a little and see what that means...

EarthWorks is our Stanford branded implementation of the Open Source software called GeoBlacklight

the GeoBlacklight project is based upon the Project Hydra framework for Fedora Repositories

GeoBlacklight code contributers include:
Stanford, Princeton, MIT, and NYU

Even the metadata in EarthWorks is maintained in an Open and Consortial repository on GitHub called OpenGeoMetadata

OpenGeoMetadata currently contains metadata for ~50,000 data layers...

contributed by
Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, UVA and Tufts...

with NYU, UMN and The British Library ready to begin contributing.

Put your geospatial metadata in

github.com/OpenGeoMetadata...

GeoBlacklight Institutions will index your metadata and make your holdings searchable

Launch your own GeoBlacklight instance...

Be part of the GeoBlacklight Community!

Come to Stanford for
Geo4Lib Camp 2016

Geo4Lib Camp
When: January 25-27, 2016
Who: GIS developers, librarians, managers

Modeling GIS data using Hydra/Fedora
Creating and managing GIS metadata
Discovery services with GeoBlacklight
Building a spatial data infrastructure
Working with your data and metadata
and more...

what's next?