Catch up

What I've been up to recently:

• Getting ready for WAML 2012 in Honolulu where I'll be serving as President of the Western Association of Map Libraries
• Finishing up scanning over 860 maps of the San Francisco Bay Area that are in the public domain. These maps will eventually be added to UC Berkeley Libraries' digital holdings and be available for free to anyone who is interested in the maps.
• Working with an awesome intern to georeference these maps (hoping for 285 by July 2013)
• Working with the Data Librarian here at UC Berkeley on an automated geospatial metadata project to create metadata for GeoData@UC Berkeley, the UCB instance of Open Geoportal. We're using BaseX
• Working with students on GIS projects and presenting geospatial thinking and software to anyone who will listen
• Continuing to work through Learn Python the Hard Way which is very awesome: thanks Zed!