Introduction

Hello, my name is Andrew Weymouth and I work at the University of Idaho Library as the Digital Initiatives Librarian in the Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning (CDIL) department. My work generally consists of creating and maintaining our digital collections, helping to rethink processes and introducing new digital scholarship tools to the department.

The short talk that I will be giving today is a part of a larger workshop I created for the 2024 Information Landscapes series on using geolocation tools to identify archival photographs that lack location metadata. While I am in no way an expert in GIS, my work in digital scholarship regularly has me jumping into various fields and experimenting with them to see if they could be useful to a broader range of student and faculty researchers. With this in mind, I hope this survey is a helpful insight of an outsider’s perspective on the strengths and challenges of current, free to use aerial time lapse applications.