Glossary

Tip

See the Geo4LibCamp Glossary for more definitions at https://geo4libcamp.org/glossary

Aardvark

Metadata schema for GeoBlacklight 4.x and beyond

GBL 1.0

Metadata schema for GeoBlacklight 1.0-3.x

GeoJSON

Specific type of JSON for geographic features, such as OpenIndexMaps. GeoBlacklight metadata files are NOT GeoJSONs.

Faraday

A type of middleware for Ruby on Rails that provides a common interface, enabling different applications to send and receive data

IIIF

International Image Interoperability Framework. Used for displaying static images, like scanned maps.

JSON

JavaScript Object Notation - a flexible key:value pair file format used for GeoBlacklight metadata documents

Mirador

Open-Source IIIF viewer

OGM

OpenGeoMetadata

OpenIndexMaps

GeoJSON-based file specification for standardizing spatial index maps

Solr

The search index for GeoBlacklight

Sprockets

Ruby library for compiling and serving web assets