Geo4Lib Monthly Meeting Topics (2025–2026)

This post displays our schedule of monthly meeting topics. Some meetings will feature presentations, others will be group discussions, and a few will bring in guest speakers.

We invite anyone interested to join us! Visit the Get Involved page for details on how to connect.

2025

September 10: User Stories

Who is using our search portals? How can we facilitate more usage? Alex Marden will describe the UT Libraries Map & Geospatial Collections Fellowship.

October 8: PMTiles

PMTiles are a newer data format for tiled data. We will gather community questions on PM Tiles to be reported on at a future meeting.

November 12: GIS Library Service Models

How do our libraries provide GIS services? A chance to compare and contrast approaches.

December 10: Allmaps

Allmaps is a service for georeferencing IIIF maps. We’ll hear updates from the community and explore how we are using Allmaps (and how we could do more).

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2026

January 14: OpenGeoMetadata API

Eric Larson will share progress on building an API that provides Aardvark-compliant metadata records.

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Topics are subject to change.

This post will be updated with the latest schedule.

Have an idea for a future topic? Get in touch via Slack or email.