SDR Documentation

This repository is the place for documentation relevant to NYU's Spatial Data Repository and the parts of NYU Libraries infrastructure used to maintain it.

As of Fall 2023, this repo is being pruned and reorganized as part of a major SDR upgrade sprint; old documentation will be available in the archive branch, and only docs vetted as currently correct and useful will make their way to main. (WiP)

SDR Quicklinks

Deployments

• Production: geo.nyu.edu
• Staging: geo-stage.library.nyu.edu (requires nyu vpn)

Repositories

• Application: nyulibraries/spatial_data_repository
• Documentation: nyulibraries/sdr-documentation
• CLI Tool: nyulibraries/sdr-cli
• Core GBL: geoblacklight/geoblacklight
• NYU GIS Records (Prod): opengeometadata/edu.nyu
• NYU GIS Records Staging: nyu-dataservices/gis-metadata-staging

Misc

• 2023 Documentation Scan
• Google Drive

Deprecated/Archived

• nyulibraries/sdrfriend
• nyu-dataservices/gis-metadata-sandbox
• spatial_data_repository wiki

Contents

Maintain & Manage

• AWS Architecture
• Deploy the GeoBlacklight Rails App
• Secrets Management
• Roadmap

Develop

• Developing Locally (Mac)
• Contributor guide
• App changelog

Curate & Deposit

• Accessioning Workflows
• Add and validate GeoJSON records in GitHub (staging and canonical OpenGeoMetadata repos)
• Index records to Staging and Prod Solr
• Manage Geoserver layers
• Use FDA API
• Update Featured Collections and Maps

Test

• QA guide
• Running CI tests
• Validate GeoJSON Records to the JSON Schema(s)