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Colocate² Unconference

February 26-28, 2025 – Stanford University Libraries – bit.ly/colocate2

Colocate² = Colocating people to build tools for colocating maps

Event Dates: February 26-28, 2025
Location: Stanford University | David Rumsey Map Center | Google Map Link
Event Format: 3-day Unconference
Google Drive: bit.ly/colocate2-drive

Agenda

Wednesday, February 26

Location: David Rumsey Map Center

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM: Welcome, Introduction & History

  • Introduction by Stanford host team
  • Overview of the unconference structure, goals, and key themes: IIIF, Allmaps, GeoBlacklight, sustainability, and R&D.
  • Introductions - 1-2 min from each person presenting their goals, bio, expertise, etc.

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Overview of Current Tools & Developments (lightning talks)

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM: Morning Refreshment Break

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM: Unconference Session Pitches & Voting

Participants pitch session ideas, followed by group voting to determine the key breakout sessions for the unconference slots over the next three days.

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM: Lunch Break

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM: Unconference Session 1

Who Cares? - Exploring maintenance strategies for web mapping and geospatial librarianship tools. Envisioning partnerships and support configurations for future sustainability.

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM: Afternoon Refreshment Break

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM: Unconference Session 2

Designing a User Interface for Large Map Collections - Exploring UI/UX design for displaying large collections of maps at different scales within Allmaps.

Writing Non-Technical User-Facing Documentation - Best practices for creating accessible documentation for open geo tools targeting non-developer audiences.

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM: Dinner @ Rangoon Ruby | Google Maps Link

Thursday, February 27

Location: David Rumsey Map Center

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Lightning Talks

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Increasing Adoption and Participation

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM: Morning Refreshment Break

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Unconference Session 3

Integrating Allmaps in the David Rumsey Map Collection - Discussing the conversion of 60,000+ georeferenced maps to Georeference Annotations, grouping strategies, IIIF Presentation Manifests, and Allmaps Viewer/Editor integration.

Census of the Web Mapping Universe & Timeline-ing Open Geo Tools - Combining sessions to map out the web mapping tools landscape, user communities, and sustainability lessons from tools that were end-of-lifed.

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM: Lunch Break

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM: Unconference Session 4

Self-hosting, Federation & Inter-institutional Discovery Utilizing Allmaps infrastructure for collection discovery, federation of annotation storage, and self-hosting infrastructure components.

Narrative Mapping with Allmaps Using Allmaps for educational contexts and developing an open-source alternative to Storymaps.

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM: Afternoon Refreshment Break

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM: Unconference Session 5

Open Metadata - Collaborative strategies for publishing metadata with an explicit license (e.g., CC0) and developing tools for computational access to metadata.

Georeferencing Project Management Tooling Developing a collaborative task manager with role-based task assignment, queue management, and gamified feedback.

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM: Dinner @ Pizzeria Delfina | Google Maps Link

Friday, February 28

Location: David Rumsey Map Center

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: AI & Web Mapping: Exploring New Technologies

  • Investigate how artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance map georeferencing and data extraction workflows.
  • Discuss potential research and development (R&D) avenues involving AI and machine learning with IIIF.

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM: Morning Refreshment Break

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Next Steps: Funding, Outreach & Collaboration

  • Finalize action items for future collaborations, including expanding IIIF-based georeferencing tools and creating new outreach strategies.
  • Funding Models: Identifying sustainable funding for Allmaps and related projects.
  • Outreach: Discuss outreach and training strategies to promote adoption of IIIF maps.
  • R&D Roadmaps: Define specific research and development goals for 2025 and beyond.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Closing Session: Summary & Final Reflections

Open floor for final reflections, task assignments for follow-up, and next steps for future collaboration and roadmap implementation.

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Lunch Break

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM: [Optional] Sustainability & Resourcing Workshop

Explore sustainability options for IIIF-based tools and platforms like Allmaps and GeoBlacklight How do we ensure long-term support for these projects? Identifying funding sources and creating a collaborative, sustainable ecosystem.

Documents

Notes & Text Sharing

Google Drive

Shared Running Notes Document (Google Doc) - To be used by attendees in any sessions. Please be sure to use headings to indicate the sessions you are taking notes for.

Etherpad - An ephemeral text document where we can share URLs and other cut-&-paste text.

Attendees Contact List - Please embellish and correct, as needed.

Contacts and Communications

Emergencies

Stace Maples - 214-641-0920 (text or voice)
Evan Thornberry - 650-374-7804 (text or voice)

Slack for participants

Join IIIF Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/iiif/shared_invite/zt-30dy9hkvm-P6Lpg4xrpzPbE4H0Wl2rFg

IIIF #colocate channel for all participants: https://iiif.slack.com/archives/C08EHLA1CMQ

Transportation

Downtown Palo Alto and Stanford’s Campus are about 1 mile apart and connected by Palm Drive. You can either walk or take the FREE Marguerite Shuttle.

The Marguerite’s P Shuttle runs between the Palo Alto Caltrain Station (adjacent to the parking lot, on the circle) to the Stanford University Bus Stop (Google Maps Link), at the top of the Palm Drive Oval.