spatialCatalogueViewer: A 'Shiny' Tool to Create Interactive Catalogues for Geospatial Data

An R 'Shiny' application to seamlessly create interactive online catalogues for geospatial data. Items can be represented as points or areas and the interface allows for explorations through a map and a dynamic table featuring a simple search form and optional column filters.

Contents

• Installation
• Use cases
• Community guidelines
  • Reporting bugs
  • Suggesting changes
• References

Installation

The package can be installed from the CRAN with:

install.packages("spatialCatalogueViewer")

The development version is available from GitHub and can be installed with:

if ( ! requireNamespace("remotes", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("sebastien-plutniak/spatialCatalogueViewer")

Use cases

spatialCatalogueViewer is used by:

• archeoViz Portal: a catalogue of archaeological datasets displayed with the archeoViz application. Source code.
• open-archeOcsean: a catalogue of open-source resources for the Pacific and Southeast Asia archaeology. Source code.
• open-lingOcsean: a catalogue of language data collected in the course of the OCSEAN. Oceanic and Southeast Asian Navigators project. Source code.

Deployment

To deploy spatialCatalogueViewer on a Shiny Server:

• download the latest version of the package at https://github.com/sebastien-plutniak/spatialcatalogueviewer/archive/master.zip
• edit the app.R file to your needs. For examples, see:
  • archeoViz Portal app.R file
  • Open-archeOcsean app.R file
• Upload the entire folder into the directory of your shiny server where applications live.

Community guidelines

Reporting bugs

If you find a bug, please fill an issue with all the details needed to reproduce it.

Suggesting changes

Suggestions of changes to spatialCatalogueViewer are very welcome. These requests may concern additional functions, changes to documentation, additional examples, new features, etc. They can be made by filling an issue and, even better, using pull requests and the GitHub Fork and Pull model.

References

Software

• Plutniak S. 2025. 'spatialCatalogueViewer: A Shiny Tool to Create Interactive Catalogues for Geospatial Data'. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.16809720

About it

• Plutniak S. 2026. 'Référencer les ressources ouvertes en archéologie : logiciels, interfaces et infrastructures, potentiels et limites'. ACQuA 2026. Approches computationnelles et quantitatives en archéologie, poster, 9-10 February 2026, Tours, France. hal-05511180