Modern strategies for finding geospatial data updated

Our guidelines about “modern strategies for finding geospatial data” has just been updated. Why? To keep it modern! GIS portals, tools, the open data movement, and societal expectations continue to evolve; hence, the need to update this essay. This essay serves as a guideline and a short course that you could take yourself, teach others, or share with colleagues. Updates include videos that were recorded while one of us taught a recent workshop on this topic, and also a section on using ChatGPT to find data!

I recently taught a course with the content described in this essay.  The course is available in video form, here:

Part 1:   https://youtu.be/eBEWQRFYQBE?si=YwkLGw7TWUyIgjfO

Part 2:  https://youtu.be/UyG7TEdSv8I?si=UCSflXx16Om-zRhM

Part 3:  https://youtu.be/JDH8LP5Vy1Y?si=GcaK3cVGEe7I92my

Part 4:  https://youtu.be/XSCCq-IrYyY?si=ZSRekabrhCbftkVZ

–Joseph Kerski