Late last week, I found out, through inaction of my own (e.g. letting things work themselves out), it looks like library administrators and sys admins will be more fully supporting UC Berkeley's instance of Open Geoportal. This is, of course, great news as we've had GeoData@UC Berkeley up and running since the end of August, 2011.
My first order of business is to get access to at least the Solr records as there are a number of highly editable records floating around out there. I need to get these updated to remove the "REQUIRED" content in fields where no metadata was entered. Next, I'll start adding more data.
We're coming up on our first anniversary of harvesting freely available GIS data from Bay Are sources, so versioning our data can no longer be avoided. Hopefully, an annual cycle will be the longest interval we'll have for data refreshes in the future.
With more programmer time available for the next few months, I'll need to get an internship up and running for GIS. We've got 400 maps of the Bay Area that are scanned and ready for georeferencing too.
