Our geoportal is live!
After many months of collaborative metadata wrangling, the Big Ten Academic Alliance Geospatial Data Project (formerly CIC Geospatial Data Discovery Project) has launched the Big Ten Academic Alliance Geoportal, built on the GeoBlacklight application.
Nine institutions have contributed to the project by harvesting metadata records from multiple GIS data clearinghouses, FTP sites, and library catalogs. As of this writing, our geoportal provides discovery and access to nearly 2,800 records, including downloadable datasets, web services, and scanned maps. All of the metadata records in the geoportal are also available on OpenGeoMetadata.