On April 17, the sixth annual Big Ten GIS Conference welcomed 340 participants for its largest attendance to date. The keynote, delivered by Frank Donnelly on the Data Rescue Project — a coordinated effort to archive government datasets at risk of being altered or removed from public access — drew consistent recognition in post-conference surveys as timely and directly relevant to the work of geospatial professionals. Other sessions on AI-assisted QGIS workflows and collaborative historical GIS methodologies rounded out a program that attendees described as reflecting both the breadth of disciplines in the field and the urgency of current challenges. One attendee wrote that they planned to apply what they learned directly to their work the following week. Another called the conference “excellent” and identified the Geoportal as a resource they planned to share with colleagues immediately. View conference recordings »https://gin.btaa.org/conference
The conference also introduced the BTAA-GIN Data Citation Generator, a tool developed to help researchers produce accurately formatted citations for geospatial datasets in APA, MLA, and Chicago styles.
Data Citation Generation Tool
