{"id":2949,"date":"2017-03-31T10:42:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T14:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=2949"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:29","slug":"big-ten-geoportal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/31\/big-ten-geoportal\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Ten Geoportal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scholars and researchers have <a href=\"http:\/\/record.umich.edu\/articles\/new-big-ten-project-aids-searching-geospatial-data-and-maps\">a new way to find and compare geospatial data and maps<\/a>: the Big Ten Academic Alliance Geoportal. \u201cThe ease of use is wonderful, but what\u2019s really new and different here is a search that allows you to compare contemporary data to old maps,\u201d said <strong>Mara Blake<\/strong>, spatial and numeric data librarian at the U-M Library. The geoportal allows searching across thousands of records of openly available geographic information system (GIS) datasets, web services, and digitized historical maps from multiple data clearinghouses and library catalogs\u2014with an interface that makes discovery easy for experienced researchers as well as neophytes.\u00a0The geoportal is managed by team of librarians and geospatial specialists at 10 research institutions from across the Big Ten Academic Alliance.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2950\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2950\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2950\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170330_map.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of old map from 1700 showing North America.\" width=\"460\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170330_map.jpg 460w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170330_map-121x100.jpg 121w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170330_map-243x200.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L&#8217;Am\u00e9rique septentrionale (North America) by Nicolas Sanson, circa 1700. (Clark Library Map Collection)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scholars and researchers have a new way to find and compare geospatial data and maps: the Big Ten Academic Alliance Geoportal. \u201cThe ease of use is wonderful, but what\u2019s really new and different here is a search that allows you to compare contemporary data to old maps,\u201d said Mara Blake, spatial and numeric data librarian at the U-M\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/31\/big-ten-geoportal\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43,158],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-data","tag-gis"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170330_map.jpg",460,379,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170330_map-121x100.jpg",121,100,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170330_map-243x200.jpg",243,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170330_map.jpg",460,379,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170330_map.jpg",460,379,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170330_map.jpg",460,379,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170330_map.jpg",460,379,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170330_map-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170330_map-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170330_map-460x300.jpg",460,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170330_map.jpg",460,379,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/170330_map.jpg",303,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Scholars and researchers have a new way to find and compare geospatial data and maps: the Big Ten Academic Alliance Geoportal. \u201cThe ease of use is wonderful, but what\u2019s really new and different here is a search that allows you to compare contemporary data to old maps,\u201d said Mara Blake, spatial and numeric data librarian&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2952,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions\/2952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}