{"id":39528,"date":"2023-02-17T13:32:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T19:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/?page_id=39528"},"modified":"2026-08-04T09:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:29:43","slug":"about-geodiscovery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/agsl\/agsl-geospatial-data\/digital-projects\/about-geodiscovery\/","title":{"rendered":"About GeoDiscovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geodiscovery.uwm.edu\/\">GeoDiscovery<\/a> is a web application for finding geospatial data and maps maintained by <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/agsl\/\">AGSL<\/a> and other <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/\">UWM Libraries<\/a> staff.<br><br>GeoDiscovery is an instance of <a href=\"https:\/\/geoblacklight.org\/\">GeoBlacklight<\/a>, an open-source, multi-institutional, community-developed Ruby on Rails application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GeoDiscovery includes both public and restricted datasets from the collections of the American Geographical Society Library. 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