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 ## More information
 
-- [Chris Thiry's Clearinghouse](https://www.arcgis.com/home/group.html?id=427f021a56f9449dbba24fbb4b915f55)
-- [Jon Jab and Chris Thiry's workshop material (WAML 2018)](https://ucsb.app.box.com/v/WAMLindexes/folder/53136056329)
-- [Tom Brittnacher's article](http://www.waml.org/ib/waml-information-bulletin/49-2/digital-index-maps-leveraging-gis-to-create-metadata-for-online-map-collections/)
-- [Keith Jenkins's workshop](https://kgjenkins.github.io/openindexmaps-workshop/)
-- [OpenIndexMaps GitHub organization](https://github.com/OpenIndexMaps)
+- [Clearinghouse of GIS indexes for paper map sets](https://www.arcgis.com/home/group.html?id=427f021a56f9449dbba24fbb4b915f55): This site, maintained by Christopher Thiry, Map Librarian at the Colorado School of Mines, serves as an open clearinghouse for GIS-produced indexes for paper map sets. The layer packages only contain base information about the paper maps, not information about a specific library's holdings.
+- [OpenIndexMaps GitHub organization](https://github.com/OpenIndexMaps): Similar to the above clearinghouse, this GitHub organization serves as an open metadata collection of OpenIndexMaps GeoJSON files.
+- [Digital index maps: Leveraging GIS to create metadata for online map collections](http://www.waml.org/ib/waml-information-bulletin/49-2/digital-index-maps-leveraging-gis-to-create-metadata-for-online-map-collections/): This article, by Geospatial Data Curator Tom Brittnacher, explains how the University of California Santa Barbara Library sped up the metadata-creation process for map sets by using GIS software to create digital index maps. The article provides a conceptual overview of digital index maps, as well as important considerations for their creation.
+- [Creating GeoJSON files for OpenIndexMaps](https://kgjenkins.github.io/openindexmaps-workshop/): This workshop, created by Cornell University GIS Librarian Keith Jenkins, demonstrates how to use QGIS to create OpenIndexMaps GeoJSON files that can be used in GeoBlacklight (GBL) to provide access to a series of maps or other datasets.