January saw the third annual Geo4LibCamp , a hands-on "unconference" meeting to share best-practices, solve common problems, and address technical issues with integrating geospatial data into a repository and associated services. Geo4LibCamp2018 Attendees This year’s event, hosted at Stanford University, included nearly 50 attendees from 26 academic institutions and organizations. Highlights from Day 1 included the Keynote Address from the always inspiring Stace Maples, who described how the Stanford Geospatial Center has been able to aid international public health projects, and the plenary panel, Getting started and keeping momentum , with speakers from five institutions that have successfully set up geospatial repositories and/or discovery applications. The featured speaker on Day 2 was none other than David Rumsey himself, who provided a wonderful walk through of the history of the San Francisco Bay area with maps ranging across hundreds of years. Rumsey als...
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