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Geo4LibCamp 2017

This post was co-written with Mara Blake. Three members from the Big Ten Academic Alliance Geospatial Data Project attended Geo4LibCamp 2017 . The organizers describe this annual event as “a hands-on meeting to bring together those building repository services for geospatial data. The main focus is to share best-practices, solve common problems, and address technical issues with integrating geospatial data into a repository and associated services.” The Setting Geo4LibCamp is hosted by Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Stanford is a fitting location for this event, because it has been a leader in the development of geospatial repositories, or georepositories , for libraries, notably with their work with the University of Santa Barbara to develop the National Geospatial Digital Archive , as well as their more recent contributions to discovery platforms for archived GIS data, particularly GeoBlacklight . It is also home to the interactive Rumsey Map Center , which i