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Creator field data contains many acronyms and inconsistencies in naming conventions between the institutional partners. Standardizing Creator field data would help clarify display on both the landing page and within the citation widget.  It would also improve user experience when sorting items by creator.  The proposed working group will come up with guidance for how to standardize this important field, while keeping potential workflow considerations in mind.

• Paige Andrew

• Jennifer Liss (Lead)

• Laura McElfresh

• Meg Mering

Creator Standardization Working Group Charge

• Karen Majewicz (Lead)

• Caroline Kayko

• Kathleen Weessies

Original Content Working Group Charge

Final Report

• Explore the scholarship around the idea of land acknowledgements

• Incorporate resources/information into the BTAA-GIN websites and develop ongoing processes that provide a deeper understanding of the historical and current concepts of land administration and property, particularly for the region in the participating institutions

• Melinda Kernik (co-lead)

• Karen Majewicz (co-lead)

• Josh Sadvari

• Nicole Scholtz

• Cecilia Smith

Land Acknowledgement Working Group Charge

• Identify a process for defining and assessing diversity in our current geoportal collections, and carry out that assessment.

• Make recommendations for how diversity can be more purposefully considered in our future collection development

• Josh Sadvari (lead)

• Cathy Hodge

• Danny Dotson

• Melinda Kernik

• Jay Bowen

• Cecilia Smith

• Theresa Quill

Diverse Collections Working Group Charge

Final Report

Develop tutorials for the geoportal

• Jay Bowen

• Danny Dotson

• Nicole Kong

• Ryan Mattke (co-lead)

• Josh Sadvari (co-lead)

• Wenjie Wang

• Milan Budhathoki

Education Outreach Working Group Charges

• Phase 1

• Phase 2

Develop guidelines for adding licensed data records to the geoportal

• Caroline Kayko

• Karen Majewicz

• Ryan Mattke - Lead

• Kathleen Weessies

Licensed Data Implementation Working Group Charge

Final Report

The Web Services Working Group

• • Melinda Kernik (Minnesota) - Lead

  • Jaime Martindale (Wisconsin)

  • Joshua Sadvari (Ohio)

  • Amanda Tickner (Michigan State)

ArcGIS Organization Working Group Charge

Web Services Report

Web Services ArcGIS Online Pilot Report

 The SLG Working Group will work to support the decision making and recommendations from the Strategic Leadership Group by gathering information and conducting surveys.

Potential expansions for the BTAA GDP

Create a report demonstrating the qualitative and quantitative impacts of the BTAA Geospatial Data Project

• Paige Andrew

• Karen Majewicz -Lead

• Cecilia Smith

Impact Report Working Group Charge

BTAA Geospatial Data Project Impact Report May 2020

Develop Best Practices around scanning and cataloging maps

• Danny Dotson

• Cathy Hodge

• Ryan Mattke

• Kelley O’Neal

• Nathan Piekielek - Co-Lead

• Theresa Quill

• Josh Sadvari

• Nicole Scholtz - Co-Lead

Maps Scanning Workflow Working Group Charge

Maps Scanning Workflow Working Group Final Report

Supporting the strategic development of the Big Ten Academic Alliance Geospatial Data Project (BTAA:GDP), the Strategic Leadership Group (SLG) provides nationally-recognized expertise (geospatial data users, and experts in GIS, data, and digital libraries, etc.) and high-level vision and leadership perspectives to the Project in its trajectory-forming years.

More information available in the SLG Charge.

UMN BTAA:GDP Project Lead

• • Ryan Mattke

BTAA:GDP Task Force Members

• • Jaime Martindale - Wisconsin

  • Nicole Kong - Purdue

Senior-level representatives 

• • John Butler - Minnesota, SLG Chair

  • Jon Dunn - Indiana

  • Karen Estlund - Penn State

  • Karen Hogenboom - Illinois 

Field specialists, desired expertise: sustainability, connections with geospatial scholars/communities, connections with relevant technology community

• • Len Kne - Minnesota (GIS specialist, assistant director of U-Spatial, member of statewide geospatial advisory council)

  • Oya Rieger - Ithaka S+R (specialist in sustainability models)

  • Jack Reed - Stanford (GeoBlacklight developer)

The Analytics Working Group will work to look at baseline usage analytics and work on figuring out what would count as “success” for the Geoportal (in terms of analytics), as well as coming up with ideas for promotion in order to increase use of the site.

• • Danny Dotson (Ohio State)

  • Jim Lacy (Wisconsin)

  • Shirley Li (Purdue)

  • Elisabeth Long (Chicago)

  • Ryan Mattke (Minnesota) - Lead

  • Kelley O’Neal (Maryland)

Analytics Working Group Charge

Analytics Working Group Final Report

Provide illustrative context for our audience and stakeholders in order to guide development of the geoportal and potential project expansion.

• • Melinda Kernik (Minnesota)

  • Karen Majewicz (Minnesota) - Lead

  • Amanda Tickner (Michigan State)

User Personas & Stories Working Group Charge

User Personas

Submit User Stories Form

Anecdotes

The ArcGIS Working Group will investigate ArcGIS Open Data, including the application’s underlying architecture and metadata capabilities. Deliverables will be in the form of one or more reports that will [1] determine and analyze existing problems, [2] develop recommendations for how these resources are included in the BTAA Geoportal, and [3] provide best practices for ArcGIS Open Data administrators. The group will also evaluate if a standing technical advisory group should be established for the BTAA:GDP project.

• • Melinda Kernik (Minnesota) - Lead

  • Nicole Kong (Purdue)

  • Karen Majewicz (Minnesota)

  • Joshua Sadvari (Ohio)

  • Amanda Tickner (Michigan State)

  • James Whitacre (Illinois)

ArcGIS Working Group Charge

ArcGIS Working Group Preliminary Report

Open Data Portal Survey Summary

BTAA GDP Accession Guidelines for ArcGIS Open Data Portals

Best Practices for ArcGIS Hub/Open Data Portals (full report) ; z.umn.edu/geometadata (subset of the content)

For the Big Ten Academic Alliance Library Directors: 

• • Wendy Lougee, University Librarian and McKnight Presidential Professor - University of Minnesota  (2015-2020)

  • James Hilton, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries - University of Michigan

  • Kim Armstrong, BTAA CLI Big Ten Academic Alliance Director Library Initiatives 

For operations at the University of Minnesota: 

• • John Butler, Associate University Librarian for Data & Technology - University of Minnesota (sponsor 2015-2021)

  • Kirsten Clark, Director, Access and Information Services - University of Minnesota (sponsor 2019-2021)

  • Claire Stewart, Associate University Librarian for Research & Learning - University of Minnesota (sponsor 2015-2019)

Executive Committee

• Barbara Dewey- Dean of University Libraries & Scholarly Communications, Penn State (2020)

Graduate Research Assistants

• • Ziying (Gene) Cheng - (2020-2022)

  • Yijing (Zoey) Zhou - (2020-2021)

  • Emily Ruetz (2018-2020)

  • Andrew Smith (2017-2019)

  • Lewei Hi (2017)