SummaryThe GeoBlacklight Community conducted a two-week sprint from January 29 to February 9, 2024, culminating in the release of a new version of GeoBlacklight. This update not only brings maintenance enhancements but also introduces new viewers for COGs, PMTiles, and IIIF Manifests. Additionally, the community has made substantial improvements to the documentation, making it easier to maintain and more informative for new users.
The GeoBlacklight Community held a community sprint in June 2023 and produced a new minor release of GeoBlacklight, new & improved documentation pages, and a platform upgrade of the GeoBlacklight website.
The GeoBlacklight Community is excited to announce the release of our next major version: GeoBlacklight 4.0. This version features official support for OGM Aardvark, and we have enriched the documentation for GeoBlacklight and OpenGeoMetadata.
The latest GeoBlacklight Community Sprint took place from February 14-25, 2022. Long time GeoBlacklight sprinters have noted that this was likely our most productive event and undoubtedly featured the most active participants. We had over a dozen participants representing Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton, Stanford, UMass Amherst, and the University of Minnesota / Big Ten Academic Alliance. Moreover, five contributors made their very first code commits to GeoBlacklight during this event.
The GeoBlacklight Community Summer 2018 Code has resulted in a new release (1.9.0) that includes compatibility with Blacklight 7 and numerous other upgrades.
The GeoBlacklight Community Winter Code has resulted in a new release (1.8.0) that includes a new feature for index maps, bug fixes, and improved metadata documentation.
The second annual GeoBlacklight Community Code has concluded and a new version (1.6.0) has been released with improved views for standards-based metadata files along with several bug fixes.
As part of an ongoing community last week, GeoBlacklight v1.0 was released! GeoBlacklight v1.0 contains work by 11 contributors, from five institutions, making 706 commits. Thanks to everyone who has contributed!