Breakout Session Topics

  • Demos and lightning talks (Darren)
  • Coordinating metadata cataloging between institutions (Kim)
  • Quality control for metadata, required fields, multiple schemas (Kim)
  • Building and integrating gazetteers, methods to query GeoNames (John Huck)
  • Experience from implementers of GeoBlacklight? What worked? What was needed? Best practices, Operational characteristics, etc. (Jack)
  • Integrating "GeoHydra" into an existing Hydra environment, modeling and lifecycle of managing data objects (Darren) 
  • Issues modeling geospatial assets, RDF, and Fedora 4 (Eliot)
  • Strategies for de-duplicating data/metadata, versioning (?)
  • GeoBlacklight 1.0 planning (Jack)
  • Strategies for harvesting metadata from other institutions and platforms (OpenGeoPortal, Esri) for discovery (Eliot)
  • Developing grants proposals and collaborations (Bess)
  • Identifying major pain points in deploying solutions (Jack)