EDINA ANNUAL REPORT for the Academic Year 2006/2007

Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Mission Statement
  • 1.2 Aims
  • 1.3 Objectives
• 2. EDINA National Services During the Academic Year 2006/2007
• 3. Service Availability
• 4. Service Funding
• 5. Service Strategy
  • 5.1 Information Management
  • 5.2 Technology
• 6. Help to Users: Documentation and Help Facilities
  • 6.1 Documentation and Web Presence
  • 6.2 Help Facilities
• 7. User Relationships, Interest Groups and User Feedback
• 8. Promotion and Marketing
• 9. User Registration and Authentication
• 10. Usage Statistics
• 11. Changes to Services
• 12. Projects
  • 12.1 Learning and Teaching
  • 12.2 Projects on Middleware Infrastructure
  • 12.3 Projects on Infrastructure for Journals and Articles
  • 12.4 Multimedia Projects
  • 12.5 Geospatial Development Projects
• 13. International Work
• 14. EDINA Management Board
• 15. EDINA Management
• Appendix 1: EDINA Services
• Appendix 2: Number of Log-ins
• Appendix 3: Registered Institutions
• Appendix 4: Summary of Expenditure 2006/2007
• Appendix 5: Staff at EDINA and Data Library
• Appendix 6: Conferences, Courses and Presentations

1. Introduction

This Annual Report is a review of service and project activity at the EDINA national datacentre during the financial and academic year, 1 August 2006 to 31 July 2007. The structure of the report follows that agreed with the JISC Executive, in the light of an earlier Memorandum of Understanding and the 2005 Funding Agreement between the University of Edinburgh and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, for JISC and UK funding bodies. It sets out EDINA’s mission and aims and objectives and reports on activities.

EDINA is a JISC-designated national datacentre; it also constitutes a formal planning unit within the University of Edinburgh Information Services. It must be compliant with the strategic objectives of both JISC, on behalf of its stakeholders, and the University of Edinburgh as host institution committed to the provision of common services.

The purpose of EDINA is to enhance productivity of research, learning and teaching in the UK. It does this directly for staff and students by delivering a broad range of relevant and reliable online services for researchers, teachers, students and information professionals across subject areas within further education (FE) and higher education (HE), meeting national accessibility requirements and exceeding performance indicators for 24/7 availability over the year. It does this indirectly by assisting academic support staff in their work. EDINA also plays a full and active part through its project activity and by providing infrastructure services and products as part of collective effort to build the JISC Information Environment (IE).

During the past year the institutional uptake of EDINA services continued to increase. There were 491 institutions licensed to use EDINA services in 2006/2007 which is up 14% compared with 2005/2006, and represents over a three-fold increase compared to 2002/2003. The total number of institutional licences for EDINA services was 1300 in 2006/2007, an increase of 7% over the total in 2005/2006. Much of this increase is due to the launch of new services, Jorum and SUNCAT, continued growth in institutional uptake of online visual and sound materials (documentary film, still images) and the continued success of the mapping service Digimap.

The content of services and projects is varied. EDINA delivers reference services (to help find what exists and to provide links to services), value-added services on repositories of content, and increasingly is a provider of facilities that make for ease of secure use and lowered costs in the information infrastructure. This variety is presented in the EDINA ‘web-rooms’ to assist navigation and usability. In the Reading and Reference Room, for example, the focus is on words and the changing area of scholarly communication. In the Map and Data Place, the focus is on encoded numbers and graphical display through services as Digimap. The Sound and Picture Studio includes the Film & Sound Online and Education Image Gallery services.

Our user base has also become varied, with colleges as well as universities, with researchers more generally defined as being from both academic departments and specialist research centres. With market coverage of 153 of 165 universities and 333 of about 505 colleges, EDINA is an established part of the UK digital library. We have worked hard over the past year, reviewing, adapting and improving support documentation to make our services more useful for learning, teaching and research. The experience that the two national datacentres, EDINA and Mimas, have had in jointly providing support to the National Learning Network for further education has broadened the user base further.

New services for EDINA in 2006/2007 include the Depot in the area of scholarly communication and the provision of British Geological Survey data through Geology Digimap. Additional funding has been made available during 2006/2007 to develop existing services: for example, the inclusion of MasterMap data from Ordnance Survey and hydrographic maps and data from SeaZone within the Digimap service.

There has been continued growth in project activity with addition of two projects in the geospatial area, EuroGeoNames and SEE-GEO, and the infrastructure project GEESE.

A project area that is transforming itself into a service area relates to the UK Access Management Federation and to Shibboleth, the key underpinning technology. Authentication and authorisation are fundamental to the workings of EDINA, to the JISC IE, to collaborative working (e.g. eScience) and to online access generally. Once JISC had announced that it was planning the successor to the Athens system currently deployed across UK academe, and that it planned to implement Shibboleth, EDINA was directed by JISC to plan accordingly for the delivery of its services. EDINA has taken a national (and internationally-recognised) lead in developing technical know-how, providing support through the Shibboleth Development and Support Services (SDSS) project. This project support activity is being converted into defined service activity, with EDINA SDSS playing the role of a sub-contractor to JANET (UK) and a centre of excellence for JISC.

Partnership has continued to be paramount with the academic support staff, librarians and a growing number of other information professionals within institutions that subscribe to EDINA services. They have a key role for extracting maximum value as part of their provision of services. Partnership with data and software suppliers, and with our sister organisations who work with JISC to provide common services within the UK digital library, has also been an essential part of a successful year.

1.1 Mission Statement

EDINA seeks to enhance the productivity of research, learning and teaching in UK FE and HE as a JISC-designated national datacentre delivering specialist data and information services.

1.2 Aims

EDINA aims to:

• Provide staff and students with access to key information resources, as part of the JISC IE, contributing national services as part of a strategic partnership between the UK funding councils and the University of Edinburgh.
• Increase the value of information and data, and to enhance productivity through cost-effective provision of common services, especially remote, anytime/anyplace online access.
• Provide shared services and infrastructure which improves the architecture of the JISC IE for the benefit of all its users.
• Offer an additional range of services applicable to data and information pertaining to the land and people of Scotland.
• Ensure that EDINA has command of sufficient and appropriate resources to act as a cost-effective and well-regarded JISC-designated, university-based national datacentre.

1.3 Objectives

Collection, Content and Services

To ensure relevance of EDINA services, by:

• Developing, managing and presenting a portfolio of data services of high utility and usability.
• Sustaining leadership in the provision of specialist data services, e.g. reference services for scholarly communication, digital map and geospatial resources, moving pictures, images and sound.
• Providing significant part of the JISC IE – both for content and infrastructure – by achieving critical mass, market presence and effective service delivery.
• Engaging in ‘future watch’ activities, with respect to changes in HE and FE, in areas such as user behaviour and technology for the Internet.

Accessibility, Outreach and Interoperability

To increase overall relevance and utility of EDINA services, by:

• Listening to and assisting scholars, university and college teachers and their support staff.
• Engaging in collaborative inter-working with specialists and other organisations, including national service providers, local support staff and commercial vendors.
• Improving the usability and functionality of EDINA services.
• Demonstrating to FE and HE staff the value of using electronic information services in learning and teaching, and the means by which this can be done.
• Supporting the use and reuse of learning and teaching material.

To widen access to online services, by:

• Increasing awareness of EDINA services among potential subscribers and end-users.
• Using accessibility principles in web pages, for users with disabilities.
• Providing a choice of views (access points, or portals) onto the information landscape.
• Making registration and authentication straightforward (including reduced sign-on capability where available), while ensuring necessary levels of security.
• Minimising barriers to access, while having respect for intellectual property rights (IPR).

To continue to move to an open technological and service environment, by:

• Assisting progress from discovery of relevant resources to access and use of those resources.
• Ensuring that services comply as far as possible with open standards, e.g. for reference linking, search and retrieval, and data harvesting.
• Collaborating in the implementation of an information architecture suited to the effective delivery of JISC-sponsored services.
• Integrating the means of access to bibliographic information and research datasets.

Datacentre Development

Business Activity

To sustain and develop a healthy UK national datacentre, by:

• Commanding sufficient understanding of the information service economy for further and higher education, and of the wider information economy.
• Securing sustainable income streams to fund operational and development requirements.
• Entering advantageous partnerships with funding bodies, educational institutions and other participants in the information service economy.
• Understanding the appropriate role of national datacentres in supporting the research, learning and teaching needs of students, academic staff and the broader research community.

Staff Resources

To sustain an effective blend of service orientation and development capability by:

• Recruiting and retaining and developing a flexible complement of able, skilled and well-motivated staff.
• Providing staff development opportunities and attractive and appropriate terms and conditions.

Technical Development

To develop and maintain an exceptional ICT capability, by:

• Commanding sufficient resources, in terms of human skills, software and hardware, for planning and deployment.
• Engaging in ‘technology watch’ activity, and thereby maintaining a comprehensive current understanding of the ICT requirements of a UK national datacentre by deploying appropriate and relevant technical solutions.
• Establishing synergy with the world-class computing and networking infrastructure developed and maintained by the University of Edinburgh’s Computing Services.

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2. EDINA National Services During the Academic Year 2006/2007

In 2006/2007 EDINA hosted the following national services, a detailed list and description of which is given in Appendix 1:

• agcensus
• CAB Abstracts
• The Depot
• Digimap Collections:
  • Digimap: Ordnance Survey Collection *
  • Historic Digimap *
  • Geology Digimap
• Education Image Gallery (EIG) *
• Film & Sound Online *
• Index to The Times, 1790-1980 *
• Inspec
• Jorum (*, with Mimas)
• Land Life Leisure
• National Learning Network (NLN) (*, with Mimas)
• SALSER
• Statistical Accounts of Scotland
• UKBORDERS (funded by ESRC)
• SUNCAT *

*JISC sponsored/monitored services.

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3. Service Availability

Throughout 2006/2007 the aim was for EDINA services to be available 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, and our target of 99% uptime was narrowly missed; however, we achieved around 98% for all services. The EDINA Helpdesk was staffed during normal office hours, maintaining an out-of-hours recording.

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4. Service Funding

The national services offered by EDINA during 2006/2007 were funded from several sources. The majority were funded by JISC, with funding also provided by ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council), the University of Edinburgh, and by subscription directly from UK FE and HE institutions. A list of subscribing institutions is shown in Appendix 3.

All online services were made available free ‘at the point of use’ for academic purposes by staff and students at licensed institutions. Some services, for example Film & Sound Online and UKBORDERS, require no fee, while for most an annual institutional subscription is required. The latter is sometimes collected by EDINA in order to cover the costs of service delivery, as has been the case for Land Life Leisure; for most services listed above, JISC, or ESRC, meets that cost and collects subscription income. Examples include: Education Image Gallery and the Digimap Collections. In all instances, the University of Edinburgh sustains the necessary IT infrastructure to enable cost-effective delivery of service.

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5. Service Strategy

During 2006/2007 EDINA succeeded as an organisation geared to the delivery of high quality online services. The operation of EDINA national services was undertaken by the appropriate team identified in EDINA’s structure of management and operation:

Table 1: EDINA Team Structure

User Support (Helpdesk, Advisory, Outreach, Documentation & Training)	Support to users and their support staff, and feedback to the service delivery teams: promoting the EDINA services; providing a helpdesk and allied activities; learning from, and addressing the needs of, academic support staff and end users, through high quality training, online documentation and presence at key conferences and events
Service Delivery (Bibliographic and Multimedia Services; Geo-data Services; Learning and Teaching*)	Delivery of online services: developing, implementing and maintaining effective online data services, including the design and implementation of customised client software, server functionality and databases, and ensuring regular data updates. Learning and teaching services and their development are the responsibility of all service areas and are supported by the Learning and Teaching team.
IT Technical Infrastructure	Management of the IT platform: reliable and sufficient support of online services; planning and maintaining the underlying software and hardware platforms; network connections; effective liaison with Infrastructure Services of the University’s Computing Services (EUCS); specialist programming support as required.*
Business Development and Administrative Support	Business, projects and administration: co-ordination, facilitation and provision of administrative support; seeking out and evaluating new opportunities for collection and development; providing an overview of all project work.

*The Infrastructure services provided EDINA with support in the installation, operation and maintenance of the hardware and operating system components of multiple SUN servers, the UNIX computing platforms used to host the EDINA services, and the connection to the Internet.

The JISC IE is the centrepiece of JISC’s collections policy. The overall aim of the JISC IE is to develop a framework that will support the creation of an easily accessible, comprehensive information resource that can be used by teachers, learners and researchers within and beyond the UK Higher Education community. During 2006/2007, EDINA worked in support of that aim, contributing to the JISC IE through projects and services.

5.1 Information Management

Presentation plays a key part in online service provision. In part, EDINA does this through a series of ‘web rooms’:

• Reading and Reference Room
• Sound and Picture Studio
• Map and Data Place
• Scottish Gathering
• Learning and Teaching
• Aladdin’s Cave

The purpose of the web room representation on the EDINA home page has been to allow the end-user (staff or student) to view the EDINA services from the perspective of their purpose. There are links to the national services provided by EDINA, links to other services and facilities of relevance, including other JISC-sponsored services and the subject-based resource discovery facilities.

5.2 Technology

EDINA has used both commercial and open-source solutions, with three purposes in mind: to host and manage content; to deliver services across the Web; to facilitate interoperability.

EDINA continues to move towards a more open technological and service environment. EDINA is a major component of the JISC IE and e-Infrastructure with its use of software and protocols to support interoperability. This provides the context for choice of application software and database management systems with which to deliver online national services. This is most obvious for bibliographic databases, but has importance for multimedia and geospatial data as the use of this data increases in UK HE and FE.

The principal software products used for hosting services were mainly proven commercial products: Laser-Scan, ESRI ARC/INFO, SAFE FME Software, Snowflake, Oracle and Ingres. Laser-Scan and ARC/INFO were used for data processing and map generation. SAFE and Snowflake were used for data translation, formatting and data delivery. Oracle and Ingres are relational database management systems used in the delivery of both geospatial and bibliographic data. There has been an increased adoption of open-source software. The LaserScan software is scheduled to be replace by open procurement (see Section 11, Digimap Procurement section).

EDINA maintained its use of selected open source products such as Indexdata’s Zebra, Open SiteSearch, MySQL, Postgres, Apache::ASP, GeoServer and Minnesota MapServer. In many instances the reliability and support offered for these products exceeded that of similar commercial products.

Apache was used as the World Wide Web server, sometimes in combination with Jakarta Tomcat. Perl and Java (mainly server-side) are used extensively for data processing and in the implementation of user interfaces.

Web Services have been used during project development as a solution for interoperability requirements and are used in services, e.g. Digimap and UKBORDERS. OpenURL has been adopted as EDINA’s linking technology for bibliographic services. In the wider geospatial community, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is at the forefront of developing and promoting open standards for the exchange, discovery and exploitation of geographic information. EDINA has been an associate member of the OGC for several years, and is actively engaged in implementing OGC interoperability standards. EDINA continues to be a member of the OGC.

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6. Help to Users: Documentation and Help Facilities

EDINA’s policy on provision of documentation and help facilities is as outlined in our Service Level Definition available from JISC’s Monitoring Unit (MU).

6.1 Documentation and Web Presence

The EDINA website continued to act as the main access point for users of our projects and services. Minor adjustments to the current site were made during the year and a project continued for a site relaunch, scheduled for January 2008.

Publicity material in the form of the well-established EDINA A5 flyers and A3 posters was produced and distributed. As with our existing services, new services were documented by means of Quick Reference Guides, and with support material on the EDINA website. In addition, individual posters were produced for exhibitions and to supplement the standard range of materials.

EDINA continued to provide service demonstrations for new services and interface updates. The service demonstrations were produced using Camtasia in a wide range of formats. In addition the initial steps were taken to produce animations for services and projects.

EDINA’s quarterly newsletter Newsline continued to play an important role in helping academic support staff and others with an interest in our services to keep abreast of developments at EDINA.

6.2 Help Facilities

The EDINA Helpdesk continued to act as the primary point of contact for all enquiries concerning EDINA services and responded to enquiries from both end-users and support staff. It also had a role, on a cost-recovery basis, in support of the National Learning Network and the Digital Curation Centre. Helpdesk staff categorised queries and entered them into a call-logging system, noting those to be included as an intrinsic part of our user feedback system for the purpose of future developments. Queries were mostly resolved directly by the Helpdesk staff or referred to experts inside and outside of EDINA as appropriate.

Training

The training courses or workshops run in 2006/2007 are detailed in the table below:

Table 2: Training courses

Course Name	No. of courses run	No of Attendees
		Total	HE	FE
Film & Sound Online	5	34	13	21
Education Image Gallery	5	21	4	17
Digimap	3	28	27	1
MasterMap (early adopters)	2	14	14	n/a
MasterMap (site representatives)	1	9	9	n/a

User Feedback on Training

Evaluation forms for all courses continue to be very positive; all sessions were given an average overall rating of "good" or "excellent".

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7. User Relationships, Interest Groups and User Feedback

EDINA continued to make use of its various JISCmail lists to keep users and support staff informed of service changes, e.g. for Digimap to encourage discussion about the service between users in different institutions and disciplines. Other separate groups by email lists were contacted throughout the year with important announcements as well as to enlist volunteers for trials and early adopters to new services and projects.

We continued to receive a small number of user comments submitted via feedback forms within service interfaces. Additionally comments received at events were fed back and acted on accordingly.

Relationship with the FE Community

The services currently provided by EDINA of greatest interest to FE institutions are Digimap OS, Film and Sound Online, Land Life Leisure, EIG and Jorum. The number of subscribing FE institutions are given in the table below.

Table 3: Subscribing FE Institutions

Service	Number of subscribing FE Colleges	Percentage of Total Subscriptions	Percentage of FE colleges subscribing
Digimap OS Collection	53	37%	10%
Digimap Geology	2	3%	-
Digimap Historic	2	3%	-
EIG	85	64%	17%
Film & Sound Online	214	60%	42%
Jorum Contributor	52	63%	10%
Jorum User	239	67%	47%
Land Life Leisure	22	59%	4%

EDINA provided helpdesk facilities and training workshops for its services that are available to both FE and HE. FE colleges were notified via the RSCs whenever workshops were held in their particular areas. EDINA provided a range of promotional materials, including flyers and posters to RSCs on request. EDINA participated in RSC-organised events and contributed regularly to relevant JISC and other awareness-raising activities aimed at FE.

The EDINA office at St Helens College in Merseyside continued to be very successful in terms of engagement in FE concerns and led to fruitful collaborations. St Helens College was a partner with EDINA in the Visual and Sound Materials (VSM) Portal project (see 12.4 below).

Jorum supported the sharing, reuse and repurposing of L&T materials in the UK FE and HE sectors. Jorum itself supported two services: Jorum Contributor enabled content to be deposited for sharing with others; Jorum User provided user access to those resources. Jorum service-in-development activities in 2006/2007 included Jorum presentations at numerous RSC events and other events/workshops in which the FE sector had a key interest.

In 2006/2007, contact was made with the Learning and Skills Network (LSN) with a view to arranging deposit into Jorum of a large number of high quality L&T resources from the ‘Q Projects’ and teacher training programmes. Colleges will be able to download these resources directly into their VLEs.

Through the National Learning Network (NLN) Learning Materials Hosting Service, EDINA has maintained close links with the RSCs, providing technical support in answer to queries received at the EDINA Helpdesk. EDINA works closely with the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta), which is a strategic partner of JISC, and with Mimas.

In September 2006, the Film & Sound Online service provided a ‘View or Create Learning Materials’ page, which enabled users both to view case studies and reviews, and to offer to create learning materials. In addition, a number of film trails were commissioned in 2006/2007.

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8. Promotion and Marketing

We continued our efforts to market our services to academic staff and students at subscribing institutions. As in previous years, we did this by assisting site representatives and other support staff in their local promotional activity, by providing copies of posters, flyers and other informational material, either free or on a cost-recovery basis.

EDINA continued to collaborate with other related providers in promoting and marketing our services. Examples include the Census Registration Service (CRS) for UKBORDERS and the BUFVC for publicising the Film & Sound Online service.

Links with the JISC Regional Support Centres (RSCs) were consolidated. We attended several of their events throughout the year (see Appendix 6).

During the year, EDINA identified a number of relevant specialist conferences at which attendance was appropriate, e.g. Arlis, Learning on Screen and ALLCU. A full list of conference presentations and exhibitions attended is given in Appendix 6.

Highlights in EDINA’s calendar included:

• RGS/IBG conference, London, 30 August – 1 September 2006
• Internet Librarian, London 16-17 October 2006
• Online Information, London, 28-30 November 2006
• JISC Conference, Birmingham, 13 March 2007
• GISRUK 2007 (GIS Research UK) , Maynooth, Ireland 11-13 April 2007
• UKSG – Serials Group annual conference, Warwick, 16-18 April 2007
• UMBRELLA – Hatfield, 28-30 June 2007
• HE Academy – 3rd annual conference, Harrogate, 3-5 July 2007

Flyers and posters were distributed at a number of other events.

The following means were used to promote EDINA services and to keep users informed of developments:

• The EDINA website (http://edina.ac.uk).
• Newsline, EDINA’s quarterly newsletter, distributed in print to all site representatives and other interested parties, and available on the EDINA website.
• Articles and advertisements in other newsletters and publications.
• EDINA’s JISCmail lists: digimap-announce@jiscmail and edina-sitereps@jiscmail.ac.uk.
• JIBS user group JISCmail list: lis-jibs-user@jiscmail.ac.uk.
• Other JISCmail lists as appropriate.
• Information stands and product presentations at conferences and meetings.
• Presentations at other awareness-raising events.

Emerging areas for promotion were social networks and other Web 2.0 tools. EDINA created entries in Wikipedia and del.icio.us. Consideration was being given to Second Life and other spaces on the web. In addition blogs were identified for postings, such as that of the JIBS user group as well as non-academic ones. Several messages were sent during the year to blogs. RSS feeds were created to allow interested parties to pick up EDINA news items automatically.

Forums were also implemented for certain services and projects with others in development. The roll-out of OS MasterMap had a dedicated forum and Go-Geo! also had one in service. Work was progressed during the year on the Film & Sound Online forum to be put into service at the start of 2007/2008.

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9. User Registration and Authentication

Whilst registration and authentication for most EDINA services depended on use of the Athens Access Management System, JISC announced their intention to replace use of Athens with new access management technology based on Shibboleth. Academic use of Athens remains funded through to August 2008.

EDINA continued to be heavily involved in the deployment of Shibboleth within the UK Access Management Federation. The SDSS team provided the technical support to the federation, which was managed by JANET (UK) (as described in section 12.2). The federation metadata, WAYF and website has been hosted on EDINA servers since its launch; these are intended to migrate to custom hardware, purchased by JANET (UK), in the future.

Most of EDINA’s services were converted to accept either Shibboleth or Athens credentials for access control. Apart from the technical issue of implementing this software, the main change entailed by this conversion exercise was a re-engineering of the licensing procedures for handling institutional subscriptions. Whereas in the past, this involved informing Athens of new subscriptions, and subsequently relying upon Athens Access Management to make authorisation decisions, under Shibboleth these authorisation decisions are now the responsibility of EDINA as the service provider. New database management procedures were developed to streamline the handling of this licensing information.

Authentication procedures for EDINA services continued to comply with Athens Single-Sign-On (SSO) and Athens Devolved Authentication (DA). EDINA advocated the use of personal Athens user accounts to allow user-level options, EDINA, however, also offered access to bibliographic web services from individual and group Athens accounts. A number of services also offered IP-authenticated access.

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10. Usage Statistics

The number of institutional licences in 2006/2007 for the eleven national services sponsored by JISC is shown below, in the context of uptake in the four previous years:

Table 4: Take-up of licences across the EDINA services

	Reading & Reference Room				Map & Data Place
	Index to The Times	Inspec	Land Life Leisure	SUNCAT	UKBORDERS	Digimap- OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap
2002/2003	20	35	34	-	109	76	-	-
2003/2004	21	16	36	-	116	85	-	-
2004/2005	14	16	36	-	220*	93	26	-
2005/2006	15	16	37	49	165	98(HE) 86 (FE)	46	-
2006/2007	15	11	37	65	119	95 (HE) 53 (FE)	57	21

* the method for securing authorisation in the Census Programme has changed; the figure for 2004/2005 is likely an overestimate, more like an upper bound.

	Learning and Teaching		Sound and Picture Studio
	Jorum		Film & Sound Online	Education Image Gallery
	Contributor licences	User licences
2002/2003		-	126	-
2003/2004		-	184	58
2004/2005		-	248	102
2005/2006	44	225	296	124
2006/2007	82	357	358	133

Table 4 shows that subscriptions for Digimap OS collection within HE institutions reached a plateau in the mid-90s during 2006/2007. JISC, having provided a one-free-year subscription for FE institutions to all Digimap Collections during 2005/2006, retained the majority of those subscriptions and gained a few additional FE institutions during 2006/2007. There was a further increase to a total of 57 subscriptions for Historic Digimap. Geology Digimap was launched in January 2007 and by the end of July 2007 there were 21 institutional subscriptions. Marine Digimap which will enable users to view and download hydrographic maps and data will be launched in early 2008. UKBORDERS does not require an institutional subscription.

There continued to be growth in institutional uptake of two services for visual and sound material, Film & Sound Online (moving pictures and sounds) and EIG (still images). EIG required a paid subscription; Film & Sound was a free service.

Table 4 shows consolidation of the subscription services for the abstract and indexing (A&I) databases in the Reading and Reference Room. The subscriptions for Inspec decreased when five out of six sites came to the end of their three-year licence period and chose not to re-subscribe. The current Inspec licence period runs to August 2008. Inspec was once offered exclusively by EDINA but now faces competition from other commercial service providers.

The Jorum repository service – supporting the submission, sharing, reuse and repurposing of learning and teaching (L&T) materials in UK FE and HE institutions – was launched as a user service in January 2006. The institutional user licence uptake within the first 18 months exceeded all expectations. Jorum does not require a paid subscription.

Total monthly log-in statistics for all EDINA services are given in Appendix 2.

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11. Changes to Services

Multimedia services

Film & Sound Online (formerly Education Media OnLine)

The Education Media OnLine (EMOL) service was re-launched as Film & Sound Online for the new academic year 2006/2007. The user interface was re-designed to include a variety of new functions: Browse by subject (using UNESCO subject classification), a Showcase of samples from each of the 17 collections, a Lucky Dip and a View/Create Learning Materials area, where case studies and reviews can be seen and case studies and film trails can be commissioned. By 31 July 2007, some 40 reviews and five case studies were available, with further to follow in academic year 2007/2008. Work continued throughout the year to develop a discussion forum and a film trail area, both of which functions are scheduled to be in place for the start of the academic year 2007/2008. JISC Collections has extended the Film & Sound Online service, free to subscribing institutions, until 31 July 2009. At 26 September 2007, 329 institutions had re-subscribed or subscribed anew to Film & Sound Online. (This later date is given, because institutions were given a month’s grace period until 31 August to re-subscribe.)

Education Image Gallery

Following an annual internal review of the EIG service, EDINA refreshed and updated the user interface for launch on 8 August 2006. More images were added to the rotating bank on the main search page. Monthly updates, which had been loaded each succeeding month, could be searched by subject as well as displayed as a single set (of around 200 images). There was also a new search function that enabled users to search the monthly updates over a range of months. On the Standard Search page the search box had a new drop-down menu to allow for more specific searching than the ‘all fields’ default, including by ‘title’, ‘description’, ‘subject headings’ or ‘keyword’ fields. JISC Collections negotiated throughout the academic year 2006/2007 with Getty Images for an extension to the EIG service. In July 2007 JISC Collections confirmed that the EIG service will be extended until 31 July 2010. There was also a provision in the new licence with Getty for provision of EIG to schools, which EDINA will address with JISC Collections in the coming academic year 2007/2008. At 26 September 2007, 94 institutions had re-subscribed or subscribed anew to EIG. (This later date is given, because institutions were given six weeks’ grace until 14 September to re-subscribe.)

NewsFilm Online

In February 2007, after long negotiation throughout 2006, JISC commissioned EDINA to host the future NewsFilm Online service that is being developed from the CSR2 NewsFilm Online digitisation project, led by the BUFVC and managed by JISC. The new service will offer some 3,000 hours of downloadable news footage from the archives of ITN and Reuters (including associated programme scripts), and will be free for an initial period of five years to subscribing institutions. From February, EDINA worked with the BUFVC to ingest the data and metadata, and liaised with mSpace, the organisation at Southampton University responsible for designing the user interface for the future service, and other related projects at Hull and Glasgow universities. Testing of the user interface is scheduled for autumn 2007.

Bibliographic Services

Index to The Times, 1790-1980

A consultation took place on the future of the service and a decision was made to continue with provision for the academic year 2007/2008. In a separate development, Index to The Times was the first EDINA service for which UK Federation access was added as an alternative authentication method.

Land Life Leisure

The main development for the service this year was extended access to a consortium of public libraries in West Wales. Under a special arrangement, 60 public libraries across Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire were given unlimited access to the service, under a scheme whereby anyone in the three counties with a library card could use the service. This was in addition to the 40 already-existing subscribing university, college and non-academic organisations.

Statistical Accounts of Scotland

Having been a JISC-sponsored service – in that JISC funded both the initial digitisation project and assisted in the set-up to service – the Statistical Accounts of Scotland became a subscription service that had to generate its own income, in addition to providing a free-to-web browsing option to the pages of the Accounts. The subscription service had many value-added features, e.g. access to the transcribed text, a transcription of the questions asked of ministers by Sir John Sinclair, digitised images, an annotated transcript of the ‘Stow manuscript’, and the original correspondence received by Sir John Sinclair regarding the parish of Stow. The 600-page Analysis of the Statistical Accounts of Scotland by Sir John Sinclair and supporting information were added in December 2006.

OpenURL Router

The OpenURL Router addressed the issue of allowing linkage from bibliographic services to OpenURL resolvers.

Although the OpenURL standard provides an encoding bibliographic metadata, enabling ‘referrer’ services to link to OpenURL resolvers, there is no mechanism that aids the referrer in determining to which resolver the link should be addressed.

Because OpenURL resolvers are generally deployed to provide onwards linkage to full text services and libraries, the access to which depends on the end-user’s institutional membership, resolvers are typically set up for and maintained by individual institutions. This means that the resolver is of a great deal of use to members of that institution, and any OpenURL link that is not addressed to that resolver is of little use to them.

The OpenURL Router provided a central registry detailing OpenURL resolvers, the institutions to which they belonged, and certain details (Athens identifiers, IP addresses and domain names) that helped in identifying members of that institution. This allowed a referring bibliographic service to address OpenURL links to the correct resolver for each end user, without any prior knowledge of the user or their institution. GetCopy provided a default service for users who are directed to the OpenURL Router, but whose institutions did not have a registered OpenURL resolver.

The OpenURL Router showed continued strong growth in usage over 2006/2007. Usage figures for the last 3 months, compared to the same period in 2005 and 2006, are shown in Table 5 below.

Table 5: OpenURL Router Usage 2005–2007

Month	Total requests1			Redirection2: number (success rate)			Lookup queries3: number (success rate)
	2005	2006	2007	2005	2006	2007	2005	2006	2007
May	206,152	416,469	1,032,226	55,390 (98.7%)	145,673 (98.1%)	135,280 (98.8%)	6,153 (48.3%)	62,137 (80.7%)	96,532 (37.9%)
June	146,855	291,422	880,250	43,497 (98.9%)	96,901 (98.1%)	98,226 (98.6%)	3,090 (32.8%)	53,453 (80.5%)	86,824 (39.1%)
July	135,310	271,881	835,960	38,316 (98.7%)	102,082 (98.4%)	86,909 (98.6%)	2,047 (23.7%)	47,550 (79.0%)	82,766 (41.3%)

Notes from Table 5:

1. Total number of requests received by the service. This includes OpenURL requests directed to openurl.ac.uk, which are to be redirected to the users’ local resolvers; registry queries (‘lookups’) from service providers; requests for button images; and requests resulting from directing users via an Athens authentication point. There were also a small number of invalid requests, largely originating from search engines.
2. Redirections of an end user’s browser with a positive outcome. The cases where an appropriate resolver could be identified – as a total number, and as proportion of requests for a redirection (‘success rate’).
3. Positive responses to registry queries. Where details of an appropriate resolver could be supplied – as a total number, and as proportion of all queries (‘success rate’).

It should be noted that the academic cycle had an impact on usage of the services that acted as OpenURL referrers (i.e. client services for the OpenURL Router), and so an equivalent impact should be expected for usage of the OpenURL Router; usage within each of the 3 month periods shows a decline in line with the usual academic cycle trends, but the comparison of 2005 through to 2007 indicates the strong underlying growth. The increase in the number of look-up queries, but with a fall in their success rate, reflect the growing usage of the Router by service providers whose services are offered beyond just the academic community.

During the year, the number of institutions registered with the OpenURL Router rose from 48 to 67.

Geospatial Services

Digimap: Ordnance Survey Data Collection

Procurement

During the last year, EDINA began the procurement of a replacement map production system for Digimap. EDINA procured the Laser-Scan (now 1Spatial) GIS software in 1999 to provide its mapping services and subsequently put applications on top of the Laser-Scan software to provide a range of web-map browsing and large-format hardcopy-plotting services.

EDINA needed to procure a new GIS platform for a number of reasons: discontinued development of the Laser-Scan software, the difficulty of running the legacy software with newer versions of third party software and operating system; severe difficulties in the software scaling to handle the number of requests now being made; issues over its robustness and reliability and its inability to meet EDINA’s future requirements.

An ITT was published under OJEC in July 2007 and it is planned to complete the selection of a supplier by December 2007 with a recommendation being made to JISC for the February 2008 meeting of JSC. All being well, work on re-engineering Digimap to use the new GIS will begin in April/May 2008.

Digimap OS

Use of Digimap continued to grow considerably in 2006/2007, with some 32,000 active registered users from 148 universities and colleges using the service (this included 53 FE colleges, many of which had taken advantage of the ‘free year’ offer for 2005/2006). Although the number of sessions fell slightly from the previous year to an average of 21,000 sessions per month, users created almost 121,000 maps for printing compared with 111,600 the previous year and downloaded some 575,000 data files. While in the 2000/2001 academic year users of Digimap viewed some 200,000 maps, by 2005/2006 this had risen to nearly two million maps. In 2006/2007 this figure almost doubled to nearly 3.5 million maps.

The Web Services trial continued and expanded in 2006/2007 and now has 47 participants. No further problems were reported, and the service did not suffer any impact from increasing the usage through this new access mechanism. It is still the intention to widen the trail to include data as well as maps although there are concerns that this will affect the service. EDINA has been looking at working the National Grid Service (NGS) to investigate whether grid technologies offer a way to supply data to desktop applications and grid services in real time, in a scalable, robust way with high throughput of data.

New publicity materials were designed, printed and distributed for all the Digimap Collections to give them a fresh new look and to reflect the naming changes made to the services at the end of 2005/2006. Digimap OS case studies were collected during 2006/2007 to be made available during 2007/2008. A new version of Classic was developed and released to the MasterMap early adopters in April 2007. This version will be released to all users in September 2007 at the annual service update.

The Code-Point with Polygons dataset were added to Carto. This dataset allows users to make maps of the postcode boundaries.

MasterMap

A key achievement during the past academic year was the development of the service to provide OS MasterMap data to Digimap users. This involved a significant amount of technical development and user support involvement in creating a system to deliver the Topography and Integrated Transport Network (ITN) layers of OS MasterMap to all Digimap users.

OS MasterMap aims to achieve a closer relationship between real world objects and features held in the OS national topographic database. In terms of reengineering Digimap, the Topography Layer represented the greatest challenge; it is more voluminous, more complex and fundamentally different from the Land-Line product it is replacing. Unlike Land-Line, which is tile-based, OS MasterMap is a seamless database of over 400 million objects where each object has a rich set of attributes associated with it. One of these attributes is a unique identifier (TOID) which allows objects to have a life cycle. Using the TOID, the creation, modification and eventual deletion of individual objects are modelled and represented within the database. In addition, area objects, such as buildings, are represented by closed polygons rather than simple unstructured points and lines. The Integrated Transport Network (ITN) Layer for MasterMap provides an overview of the transport infrastructure of Great Britain. The ITN Layer has great potential for the academic community but is not a traditional mapping dataset.

Through a series of scoping studies, surveys and consultations with users, an extensive set of requirements were established for both changes to the mapping components of Digimap and a new MasterMap data supply facility.

During the early part of the academic year 2006/2007, a small number of expert users were selected to test and evaluate the prototype MasterMap data supply service. These users provided useful feedback and user requirements were refined accordingly.

In January 2007, after further development, a version of the MasterMap data supply service was made available to users at seven subscribing Digimap institutions. These ‘early adopters’ provided feedback on aspects of the user interface, the delivery mechanism, the frequency of updates and the support they require to use the data once they have downloaded it. The facility will be made available to all users at all institutions subscribing to the Digimap Ordnance Survey collection at the beginning of September 2007. A number of enhancements will be made to the facility for this full release, including adding the ability to ‘chunk’ orders by geographic area, the ability to save and re-run orders, the provision of Change only Updates and the ability to select larger areas to download.

During the 2007/2008 academic year, users will have access to both OS MasterMap topography data and Land-Line data. In August 2008, access to Land-Line will be switched off by which time both users and institutions will have to have in place the infrastructure to support the use of OS MasterMap. A comprehensive range of support and promotional activity is being undertaken to assist in the smooth migration to the use of OS MasterMap (for example, see http://edina.ac.uk/mastermap/).

Historic Digimap

The Digimap Historic Map Collection was launched as a service in September 2004, delivering access to historical Ordnance Survey maps for the FE and HE communities. JISC acquired a licence in perpetuity from Landmark Information Group. This is the first time that the full geographical extent of Landmark’s historical maps have been brought together and delivered via the internet as searchable on-line maps. The collection consists of:

• OS County Series 1:10 560 and 1:2500, from the mid 1800s to 1945
• OS National Grid 1:10 560/1:10 000, 1:2500 and 1:1250 scale, 1945 – early 1990s

Coverage is for Great Britain, though coverage varied depending on edition and/or map availability. All maps are provided as TIFF raster images (over 400,000 separate map images).

Historic maps proved popular with a total of 57 institutions subscribing, only two of which did not also subscribe to the Ordnance Survey Collection. Usage rose steadily with just over 40,000 sessions throughout the year producing nearly 850,000 maps.

JISC have agreed for an application to be made in 2007 for funding for further development of this service.

Geology Digimap

Geology Digimap was launched on 24 January 2007. Users were able to view and print maps from the British Geology Survey (BGS) and download data for use in a GIS. The service contained extensive help on using Geology Digimap, and understanding the geological data and their use in Digimap, GIS and image processing software.

Three different datasets were supplied by the BGS 1:625 000, 1:250 000 and 1:50 000, along with the Lexicon of Named Rock units. The three datasets were available to download by tile in a service based upon the OS data download facility. Enhancements were made to this platform as the geology data can have several layers of data on a tile, such as bedrock, superficial deposits and fault lines layers.

The mapping facility provided a view on the datasets at their source scales overlying greyscale OS maps. Two extra views were created by enlarging the 1:250 000 data to 1:100 000 and the 1:50 000 data to 1:25 000. The maps were customisable by allowing the user to switch layers on and off and were further enhanced by adding a point and click get rock information tool. This tool enabled user to click on the map to get access to information from the Lexicon of Named Rock Units for the rock unit selected. The interface also allowed the Lexicon to be searched on a number of different criteria.

During the six-month period from January 2007 – July 2007, 21 institutions subscribed to Geology Digimap. There were about 2,500 registered users, 3,500 sessions and over 26,600 maps downloaded with nearly 140,000 data files downloaded.

Marine Digimap

Work has progressed during 2006/2007 towards the launch of Marine Digimap, providing marine and coastal zone mapping and data from SeaZone Solutions Ltd.

The new service will provide raster marine maps of various scales and detail (derived from Admiralty Charts), which are ideal for back-drop mapping in the UK coastal zone. The real advance though, is that users will be able to download SeaZone Hydrospatial – a feature rich vector GIS product, containing ‘topic’ layers such as ‘Bathymetry and Elevation’, ‘Structures and Obstructions’ and ‘Conservation and Environmental Protection’ amongst others.

UKBORDERS

UKBORDERS is the ‘senior service’ at EDINA, having been launched in October 1994 and subsequently funded as a Census Unit under the 1991 ESRC/JISC Census Initiative. UKBORDERS provides password-protected access (via Athens Single Sign-On and Athens DA) to digital boundary data (DBD), geodirectories and lookup-tables. These datasets are available free in a variety of popular output formats (Shape, MIF/MID, E00, DXF, CSV) for use with end users’ software.

As well as providing the geographic outputs of the 2001, 1991 and 1981 censuses, UKBORDERS supplies selected historical census boundary datasets (e.g. 1881 Census Parishes), a range of higher geographies derived from low level census geographies (e.g. postal and electoral boundaries), 2001 census boundaries in SASPAC format, and a variety of non-census boundaries (e.g. environmental boundaries). Datasets supplied by users, which result from academic research activities (e.g. the Consistent Areas Through Time (CATT)) have also been made available to the wider community. Currently, UKBORDERS curates and provides access to more than 350 discrete digital boundary datasets.

The key activity during this reporting period was the porting of the existing UKBORDERS service from the JISC-funded infrastructure to a dedicated ESRC one. Alongside this, EDINA assisted in the establishment of the ESRC Census Portal, set up and operated by the UK Data Archive. Work on integrating style and functional changes as required by the Census Portal to the newly ported UKBORDERS service was completed, and preliminary work on a new metadata facility begun.

The existing UKBORDERS service continued to be supported and maintained and necessary changes implemented where these could not await the roll-out of the new service. One such change was the implementation of the new Special Conditions and authentication/authorisation checks necessitated by the changes to the licensing and Terms of Use for the postcode directory resources – the agreement of a more liberal Terms of Use between ONS and ESRC required that all users were required to agree to a new set of Special Conditions for this resource. In order not to adversely impact upon the Programme timing for these changes, both the pre-existing UKBORDERS service and the newly ported version were upgraded to support the Special Conditions changes.

Routine data updates (e.g. new versions of the National Statistics Postcode Directory) have been ongoing as have low level maintenance tasks (e.g. security patches to the operating system or database). These used the ‘at-risk’ period and did not inconvenience users. Under the new infrastructure (see below), outstanding application and data/interface bugs were formally maintained in a separate Bug Tracking software repository. These were routinely cleared and any new issues, added, prioritised and serviced as a matter of course.

As reported in previous progress reports, the pre-existing UKBORDERS service (in operation over the 2001–2006 period), had been developed and delivered on JISC-funded hardware infrastructure. Growing demands from other JISC services sharing this infrastructure was starting to have detrimental effects upon the reliability and performance of the UKBORDERS service and a completely new infrastructure was urgently required. The new funding period (2006–2011) provided the UKBORDERS team with the opportunity and resources to develop this and a new UKBORDERS service (ostensibly a like-for-like port of the existing service but in reality a complete rebuild) was launched in April 2007. The most salient aspects of this new infrastructure were:

• An ESRC-funded infrastructure (development and deployment platforms) dedicated to delivery of Census resources.
• A largely Open Source software stack (Postgres+Geoserver+Mapserver) replacing expensive proprietary solutions (Oracle/LSL Gothic).
• An improved service delivery infrastructure utilising industry sanctioned practices (e.g. Service Oriented Architecture approaches, separation of development and live servers, scalable open standards based component technologies).
• ‘In waiting’ datasets that were acquired during the redevelopment stage of the new service were added and released under the new service, including:
  • 1981 Enumeration districts. The full 1981 census hierarchy was rebuilt from this and released at the same time to remove any consistencies between the new and old 1981 data.
  • Updates and additions to the historical Census data (English and Welsh data 1911-1971) and the addition of data for Ireland (developed as part of ESRC Research Methods work conducted by Ian Gregory, Queens University of Belfast).
  • N. Ireland grid square data (1Km and 10om variants).
  • Output Area Classification data for UK.

Whilst end users was witness little immediate changes (and for service continuity purposes this is a major advantage), the upshot of this new architecture was the following.

• A more robust, dependable service delivery platform – users will see speed gains in request processing and context map delivery is now much faster than it had been previously.
• Easier maintenance and deployment – the planned development of new interfaces onto e.g. the postcode directories will as a consequence of the new infrastructure, be easier to develop, test and deploy.

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12. Projects

12.1 Learning and Teaching

Activity in the high profile area of learning and teaching (L&T) continued during 2006/2007. Of particular importance was the Jorum service, in which EDINA and Mimas worked collaboratively with a number of key organisations.

Jorum

Jorum is a free online repository service for teaching and support staff in UK FE and HE institutions. Jorum aims to help to build a community for the sharing, reuse and repurposing of L&T materials. Jorum can hold digital resources as well as point to resources that are held externally; the former distinguishes Jorum from many other similar initiatives. Jorum itself supports two services: Jorum Contributor enabling content to be deposited for sharing with others; Jorum User providing user access to those resources.

Jorum is a JISC-funded collaborative venture run jointly between the EDINA and Mimas national datacentres. Jorum stands as a national statement of the importance of creating interoperable, sustainable materials and is a key component of the JISC Information Environment (IE).

Jorum was funded initially as a keep-safe for content created as output by projects and institutions in receipt of JISC investment. The Jorum service provides the JISC community with key benefits, including access to reusable and repurposable resources created by and for the community, and secure data management for institutions wishing to share content. Jorum provides both simple and more complex multimedia learning materials that (when downloaded) run directly in local learning environments. It also provides freedom from having to renegotiate licences with third party content providers; and detailed metadata descriptions that are useful to teachers sourcing content for use in learning and teaching.

During Year 2 of Jorum Service-in-Development, Jorum established itself as a key repository of educational resources for the UK academic community. At the end of July 2007, 358 UK F/HE institutions were signed up for Jorum User (68% increase from July 2006) and 82 signed up for Jorum Contributor (53% increase). There were 2,386 resources in the repository (58% increase) and 3,300 users were registered (42% increase).

Contact was made or maintained with key personnel at a number of places that had available high quality L&T or educational resources that they have deposited, or intended to deposit, in Jorum. For example, the Learning and Skills Network (LSN), the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching: Reusable Learning Objects (RLO-CETL) and the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS).

A partnership arrangement with a team of JISC Intute cataloguers has continued during 2006/2007, which provided expert metadata cataloguing services for Jorum. A workflow was established to support this process, which is incorporated into the repository system for Jorum.

In 2006/2007, Jorum commissioned the University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) to develop functional and information models for preservation modelling, and a Working Preservation Policy for Jorum.

In addition, Mark van Harmelen, co-author of the JISC-funded ‘Web 2.0 Content for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education’, was commissioned to produce a report on Jorum and Web 2.0/social software. During 2006/2007, a forum was provided at the Jorum website to support the Jorum Enhancement Committee, as a first step to opening this more widely.

A key activity during 2006/2007 was the undertaking of an External User Evaluation. Focus groups and interviews were undertaken, with a report being provided to JISC and the Jorum Steering Group in summer 2007.

Another key activity was a survey of provision around the world by various institutions, projects and services of Open Educational Resources (OER). A report was provided to JISC and the Jorum Steering Group in summer 2007. The purpose was to prepare for the likelihood that Jorum will in future provide a service which will be open to users around the world, and which would probably be based on Creative Commons licences.

Jorum continued to be developed in line with requirements from the community, which were discussed and prioritised by the Jorum Enhancement Committee. A range of training and outreach events were provided, promotion and support materials developed and updated, the Jorum website improved, and further versions of the repository software brought into service. The helpdesk and project teams have continued to provide support for contributors and users.

National Learning Network (NLN) Hosting Service

The NLN Learning Materials Hosting Service is funded by JISC to provide the infrastructure for delivery of the NLN online interactive learning materials. These were commissioned by the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) from a number of consortia of commercial suppliers and FE colleges.

EDINA provided helpdesk support to the Regional Support Centres (RSCs), which in turn supported FE college staff, and participated in the operation meetings administered by Becta. Mimas hosted the main service with a back-up service is provided by EDINA.

Film & Sound Online

In September 2006, the Film & Sound Online service provided a ‘View or Create Learning Materials’ page, which enabled users both to view case studies and reviews, and to offer to create learning materials. Five case studies were made available initially at the website. 50 reviews of video materials were also provided, commissioned by the HE Academy Subject Centres with funding from the Film & Sound Online service. In addition, a number of film trails were commissioned in 2006/2007.

e-MapScholar

While funding from JISC for this project ceased some years ago, minor development of the Virtual Placement continued to take place. The Nant Carfan Wind Farm Virtual Placement, hosted by EDINA, was used by the Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences at Glasgow University in their MSc in Geoinformation Technology and Cartography for the last 3 years. A number of presentations and papers about the Virtual Placement were given, and it continued to generate interest. Funding opportunities to develop further instances of the Virtual Placement were being sought. This project was undertaken in partnership with the School of Education, University of Aberdeen.

Inter-working for L&T

It is important that EDINA works closely with other groups active in various aspects of L&T, including the following UK-based services:

• Mimas
• Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Specifications (CETIS)
• HE Academy and its Subject Centres
• Centres of Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CETLs)
• JISC Regional Support Centres for FE
• Intute
• Netskills

JISC accorded the repository area significant attention and funding. Jorum fed into the process leading up to the JISC Digital Repositories Programme, and in return, derived benefit from other projects’ experiences.

A member of the Jorum team was a member of the JISC IPR Advisory Group. In addition, Jorum staff attended the JISC Repositories Programme, Legal and Policy Cluster meetings and had regular communication with other projects in the wider JISC community through membership of these two bodies.

Regarding international collaboration, JISC had key strategic partnerships with the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the USA, the Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) in Australia, and SURF in the Netherlands. JISC viewed Jorum as a key strategic area in which these partnerships were expressed. Jorum built upon and strengthened JISC’s strategic partnerships by meeting with representatives of these organisations, ensuring that high quality assistance and advice to national and international partners was provided. The Jorum team had contacts with the teams establishing national repository services in the Netherlands, Eire, Sweden and the USA.

12.2 Projects on Middleware Infrastructure

Shibboleth Development and Support Services (SDSS)

The SDSS project, which ran from April 2004 until March 2007, was originally conceived with the aim of providing support for projects in the Core Middleware Technical Development Programme by developing a prototype Shibboleth framework to enable project interworking. As understanding of the technology matured, the primary goal of the project became the development of a pilot federation for the UK. This pilot was successful in developing all the key service and infrastructure components for the UK Federation. These include:

• Enrolment services to assist members in joining the UK Federation.
• Administration of applications to join the federation (this involves obtaining suitable letters of authority from institutions).
• Technical support for federation members.
• Conversion of all EDINA JISC-funded services to support access control by means of Shibboleth, and deployment of test targets to provide support for Shibboleth developers.
• A WAYF service required to direct users to the appropriate authentication point.
• A means of acquiring the X.509 certificates necessary for SSL-based secure communication between Shibboleth origin and target servers.
• Auditing, monitoring, and support for use of this infrastructure.

Initial service conversions began to be replaced by production-strength solutions to provide more secure and more easily maintained deployments. In the meantime, most EDINA services were made available to federation members.

EDINA continued to work closely with colleagues in JANET (UK) and Becta in the ongoing development of the UK Federation, with the core developers in the Internet2/MACE committee to develop the base standards, and with international adopters of Shibboleth technology.

12.3 Projects on Infrastructure for Journals and Articles

In recent years, EDINA has been responsible for key projects in the JISC IE infrastructure for serials at both title and article level. Activity continuing from 2005/2006 included SUNCAT, GetCopy and GetRef. EDINA, with the SHERPA team in Nottingham, was also involved in provision of community-created content on an Open Access basis through the development and launch of the Depot, a ‘keep safe’ repository for deposited scholarly content until a repository of choice becomes available.

SUNCAT

The reporting period covered the last 12 months of Phase 2 which had the primary objectives of increasing the number of contributing libraries (CLs) and ensuring the implementation of developments to allow staff in CLs to improve bibliographic quality in OPACs by downloading SUNCAT records.

As far as increasing the number of libraries was concerned, steady progress was made, and by December 2006 data from 63 libraries was held in SUNCAT. That meant that 41 libraries in addition to the 22 in Phase 1 had become active contributors. The processes involved in adding new libraries is a time consuming one because the data from each library possesses a number of individual features which need to be treated individually. Excellent progress was made during the year in streamlining processes and ensuring that the data flow became as efficient as possible.

Adding CLs, thereby increasing the comprehensiveness of the database content and widening the geographical coverage, considerably improved the database as it stood at the end of Phase 1; it also made the situation, as regards the number of duplicate titles, more apparent. Duplicate entries arise for a number of reasons, but prominent amongst them are the quality of incoming data and the ability of the matching algorithm to demonstrate a degree of flexibility.

A report commissioned by JISC in 2006 to look at resource discovery services (Zetoc, Copac, Archives Hub and SUNCAT) highlighted the number of duplicate records in SUNCAT as a key concern, and accordingly after much discussion it was agreed to freeze the number of CLs at 63 so as to concentrate on developing measures to improve the number of duplicates and also to bring the database up-to-date. Data from one library, which was participating in the UK Research Reserve project, was added: the number of libraries currently with data in SUNCAT is 64.

A number of approaches were taken to investigating duplication:

• Appointing a consultant to determine a set of metrics.
• Entering into detailed discussions with Ex Libris to investigate the existing matching algorithm to ensure that it is working as intended and to consider extensions which might be made to improve its effectiveness. Additionally discussions have taken place on improving the screen presentation for users to improve perceptions of duplication.
• Entering into discussions with staff in Human Communications Research Centre (University of Edinburgh) to explore possible use of a string distance-based algorithm. The report prepared by the consultant stressed the difficulties in developing metrics but suggested ways in which duplication might be measured in future from a defined baseline. Work continues on this as it does with both the existing algorithm, presentation of results and the secondary algorithm.

Two surveys were carried out to assess the perceptions of SUNCAT users to duplicated records and to assess levels of tolerance. The results from the survey were used to direct investigations and proposals for improved screen presentation.

In the months from January 2007 – July 2008 considerable progress was made in updating the data contributed by libraries. Earlier progress had been hampered by software malfunctions but solutions were developed by staff, and currently 12 libraries are now in a regular updating cycle. Producing updated data is not straightforward for a number of CLs and SUNCAT staff have worked closely with staff in CLs, both to provide appropriate advice and develop flexible processes and procedures.

Providing facilities for staff in CLs to download data was inhibited by difficulties in obtaining permission to download records from a commercial supplier of records to some of the libraries. This led to developing procedures to prevent downloading of these particular records. Other work was carried out to make available the Conser records in MARC 21 format to CLs and testing of a Z39.50 link to obtain Marc21 records.

Throughout the period a series of activities were undertaken to improve the visibility of SUNCAT. A major activity was the holding of workshops in September 2006 in London, Manchester and Edinburgh. Over 180 people were attracted to the workshops with a waiting list being required for the Edinburgh location. The biannual Newsletter was published on schedule and provides an excellent overview on all SUNCAT activities. Three articles were published. They were:

"The serials union catalogue for the UK Research community." ALISS Quarterly 2 (2) January 2007. (Zena Mulligan).

"Scholarly Communication and National Union Catalogues: a strategic role for SUNCAT in the UK Information environment." New Review of Information Networking 12 (1) May-November 2006. (Peter Burnhill, Fred Guy & Nicola Osborne)

"Automating metadata loading for serials subscriptions: a case study using ONIX for Serials (Serials Online Holdings) to update records on SUNCAT." Serials 19 (3) May-November 2006. (Fred Guy)

The SUNCAT Steering Committee, chaired by Professor Derek Law (University of Strathclyde) held its final meeting in May 2007. A new committee, which will be administered by EDINA, is being established.

Automating Ingest of Metadata on Serials Subscriptions (AIMSS)

An article on the eight month (October 2006-May 2007) JISC-funded AIMSS project was published:

"Automating metadata loading for serials subscriptions: a case study using ONIX for Serials (Serials Online Holdings) to update records on SUNCAT." Serials 19 (3) November 2006 pp. 220-229

GetRef

The Xgrain 5/99 JOIN-UP project developed a broker for cross-searching abstracting and indexing services and electronic tables of contents services within the JISC Information Environment.

During 2005/2006 the project concentrated on building up awareness of the service, identifying areas for development and gauging interest in the product from the community. The University of Stirling has continued to use GetRef as its federated search tool for almost two years and there were a number of trials of the service over the past year.

JISC provided one year’s funding, from May 2007, to enable GetRef to be moved to full service with the aims of this activity being to:

• market the service to the JISC community
• offer a competitive subscription based service
• provide helpdesk support for the service
• maintain and develop GetRef functionality

It is intended that this work will enable a decision that the service can run on a subscription basis until July 2009. This period will allow EDINA to gauge if such a service is cost-effective and to more accurately ascertain the need for the service.

The Depot

The Depot was one of the JISC RepositoryNet support services, launched in June 2007 with the specific task of ensuring that everyone in the UK research community could benefit from making their published papers available under Open Access, and helping maximise readership of their work. It was the result of the Prospero project study conducted in early 2006, which scoped the work required to develop and launch a national facility to assist the deposit of eprints with institutional repositories (IRs) on an Open Access basis.

The Depot was developed to bridge the gap between early adopters of IRs and the establishment of a national network. Funding until March 2009 was provided by JISC. It offered a redirect service, nicknamed UK Repository Junction, to ensure that content that came within the remit of an extant repository was correctly placed there instead of in the Depot. The Depot acted as a ‘keepsafe’ until an institutional repository became available for the deposited scholarly content. In this way, the Depot would avoid competing with extant and emerging IRs while bridging gaps in the overall repository landscape and encouraging more open access deposits.

GetCopy

The ZBLSA JOIN-UP Project developed a linking tool that provided portals with the means to locate services pertaining to journals. The tool developed was used by EDINA under the brand name ‘GetCopy’. It connected discovery of a reference to a journal article with services providing the most appropriate full-text copy in printed or electronic form. GetCopy was designed to be lightweight and business-neutral by operating on existing permissions; GetCopy simply determined the location of appropriate copies, and directed the end-user accordingly.

GetCopy provided a default service for users who were directed to the OpenURL Router, but whose institutions did not have a registered OpenURL resolver.

12.4 Multimedia Projects

Visual and Sound Materials Project

During 2005, JISC commissioned a partnership led by EDINA to scope user requirements, functionality, architecture and appropriate collections for a visual and sound materials (VSM) portal for UK HE and FE. The team reported on scoping activity to JISC in March 2006, suggesting that a demonstrator would provide an opportunity to expose content and stimulate usage. The demonstrator phase of the project began in January 2007 to run until January 2008. The main output would be a demonstrator portal, but other ongoing activity included:

• Considering the range of relevant and suitable collections for delivery: project staff are working with an initial group of potential content providers who will participate in the demonstrator and establish early contact with them.
• Considering what future development of the VSM portal demonstrator would be required to move into a VSM portal service: an external evaluation has been commissioned by the project.
• Considering the feasibility of serving both time-based media and images from a single portal platform: the project will be working with associate partners exploring embedding in an institutional environment.

12.5 Geospatial Development Projects

EuroGeoNames

EuroGeoNames (EGN) is an eContentplus-funded 30-month project (from 1 September 2006) aimed at delivering a federated gazetteer infrastructure, services and middleware services for Europe. (eContentplus is a programme funded by the European Commission.) Building on existing interest and extensive work on gazetteers (specifically GeoCrossWalk), EDINA assumed responsibility for developing the gazetteer data model and application schema. Engagement was predicated on gaining pan-European access to gazetteer data for the UK academic community, although data provider IPR issues remained to be resolved.

Access to consistent and reliable multilingual geographical names is essential for a number of uses, including postal services, emergency services, navigation, tourism, property purchases, the mass media and applications such as Google Earth. In all of these areas, geographic names provide one of the most important keys for referencing and accessing a variety of related information. However, today, there is no European standard or service for geographical names, rather a patchwork of heterogeneous national services that are not suitable for the European market.

The EGN project addressed this problem by implementing an interoperable internet service to link and provide access to the official, multilingual geographical names data held at the national level across Europe. The target was to aggregate data for between five and ten European countries by connecting their national databases in an EGN infrastructure.

The project consortium brought together partners from the public, academic and private sectors, embracing the full ‘value chain’, from data providers to technology partners to value added service applications. These partners had well-established working relationships based on other work, including the feasibility study that was completed in advance of this proposal. This project aimed to make a major contribution to opening up public sector information

GeoCrossWalk

The principal purpose of GeoCrossWalk is to provide a shared service within the JISC IE that can underpin geographic searching. The rationale behind the project is that there is currently no unified entry point to assist in geographic searching within the existing academic network as each information provider/service adopts different geographic coding conventions (some use postcodes, others place names, some grid references etc.). GeoCrossWalk is designed to make geographic searching transparent by ‘crosswalking’ these different geographies and is analogous to a shared terminology service.

A Phase V project commenced in May 2006 which built on previous phased development work. The primary aim of the work was to address the key barriers identified at the conclusion of the Phase IV work.

The Phase V objectives are to:

• Further refine and develop the GeoParser technology in its own right.
• Scope the extension of the geographic coverage of GeoCrossWalk.
• Promote and support functional APIs driven by user needs.
• Maintain and upkeep the existing services.

GeoCrossWalk was selected by JISC as a pilot case to test the new transition from project to service process that is being adopted. As a consequence of this, and mid-way through the project following a meeting with the external JISC consultant, it was agreed that a refocus of endeavour was required in order to try and amass the type of evidence the new JISC transition process requires. Phase V is now tightly geared towards delivering end user APIs, the uptake of which will provide demonstrable evidence of uptake and usage as required by the transition process. It is hoped that GeoCrossWalk will finally launch as a full JISC service during 2008.

Go-Geo! Portal Project

Go-Geo! is a portal to enable searching for geospatial datasets by interactive map, grid co-ordinates and place name, as well as the more traditional topic or keyword forms of searching. The portal was originally funded under the JISC 5/99 Programme and was the result of cooperative effort between EDINA and the UK Data Archive. In 2004 EDINA took over Go-Geo! and rolled it out as a trial service to the UK academic community. Using an ANSI standard, Z39.50-1995, the portal undertakes simultaneous searching across a number of data catalogues including the national GIgateway service and its network of geospatial catalogue services.

Go-Geo! also acts as a geographic access point to more traditional types of resources e.g. papers, maps, images, within the JISC IE. It thus acts as a gateway providing a single access point to multiple resources from a geographic point of view. To do this and support cross-searching of geospatial data catalogues, Go-Geo! is heavily dependent upon the advanced capabilities provided by GeoCrossWalk.

To support the community of users of geospatial information, Go-Geo! also provides an organised collection of quality assured links to resources of use to those working with geographic data. These are regularly updated and new resources added.

In March 2007, JISC provided funding for a further (phase 5) project. This funding is Transition to Service funding, with the view to transition Go-Geo! to a full service. The objectives of Phase 5 are:

• Enhancements to the Go-Geo! ‘service’.
• Continued technical engagement with Geospatial portal developments nationally and internationally.
• Continued promotion of the importance of metadata for data management and sharing.
• Collection of metadata to provide content for the Go-Geo! portal including supporting those UK researchers who collect geospatial data outwith the UK.
• Provision of a ‘gateway’ to allow users to find and access geospatial portals in other countries.
• Increase the number of JISC services that can be cross-searched from Go-Geo!
• Continued support of the mechanisms developed in previous phases to assist and sustain long term metadata creation within the academic community.
• To fully explore business/working models for sustainability e.g. enhanced services to the community and to work with the JISC Development and Services Team to scope migration from transition service to JISC services portfolio.

The initial focus was on the redesign of the Go-Geo! Portal website and re-organisation of the various resources channels. Go-Geo! staff also worked closely with the Portals Programme Manager to ensure the independent review of Go-Geo! (part of work package 4), to be carried out by an external consultant, addresses those issues in the JISC project to service business case template currently being developed by JISC. EDINA hope that Go-Geo! will be launched as a full JISC service during 2008. It is a critical component in the evolving UK academic spatial data infrastructure.

Scoping a Geospatial Repository for Academic Deposit and Extraction – GRADE

The GRADE project, funded under the JISC Digital Repositories Programme 05-07, was led by EDINA with partners at the Arts and Humanities Research Council Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law and the University of Southampton’s National Oceanography Centre.

The aim of GRADE was to assist in developing policy and best-practice strategies for geospatial data sharing and reuse by providing demonstrable evidence of how, why and under what circumstances geospatial data are (and may) be managed via repositories.

The project began in June 2005 and finished in April 2007. The main findings of the project were:

1. Geospatial data sharing is commonplace with academia. The most popular methods of sharing geospatial data are traditional ones i.e. via email and by CD/DVD. Newer P2P sharing technologies have not yet been taken up by the GI academic community. Data sharing is most commonly facilitated via informal people networks and amongst related project partners. However, Google is commonly used by the community to locate data along with Go-Geo! and Digimap. The most significant barrier to geospatial data sharing is confusion over the assertion of IPR and copyright of derived data, and this can be seen in the top ‘wish list’ factors to facilitate data sharing being less restrictive licensing conditions along with a single comprehensive location for data discovery, access and reuse.
2. There is strong support amongst those creating geospatial data within the UK education and research sector for the establishment of a national geospatial data repository to facilitate data sharing and reuse. As well as standard repository functions, a geospatial data repository should offer specific geo-related functions, including location-based repository searching (defining an area on a map, entering a place name, postcode based searching) and the automatic generation of geo-related metadata on data upload (particularly automatic extraction of data extent).
3. Legal investigations carried out as part of the project produced a series of recommendations for the development of a licensing framework for geospatial data-sharing within the research sector. Underpinning the recommendations was the assertion that no database copyright subsists in the structure of a geospatial database. This is particularly contentious and quite contrary to current licence conditions. However, if licences were renegotiated under this premise, then any lawful user of a geospatial database (e.g. the researcher or teacher in an educational institution) would be able to extract and re-utilise an insubstantial part of the contents of a database for any purpose (including the deposit of a derived data product in a repository for reuse). If the part were substantial, then reuse would still be permitted as long as the source was indicated. The results from this work were passed to JISC and have fed into JISC’s recent study into IPR and licensing issues in derived data.
4. There are no UK geospatial data repositories in operation in UK academia. Although there are growing numbers of institutional repositories, none of them currently manage any geospatial data (and would not be capable of doing so).

As part of the investigation into repository function (described in point 2 above), a demonstrator repository was set up as a means to engage the community and seek feedback. An unforeseen success of this work was the volume of users requesting access to, and data being deposited in, the demonstrator repository. As a result, EDINA has committed to sustaining a geospatial data repository, in the medium term, as part of the Digimap platform of services. In the longer term, there are plans for an open access geospatial data repository to underpin the Go-Geo! discovery portal.

Grid Enabling EDINA Services (GEESE)

The GEESE project was a one-year project set up in October 2006. In cooperation with the National e-Science Centre (NeSC) based at the University of Edinburgh, and in close liaison with Mimas in respect of the parallel GEMS project (Grid Enabling Mimas Services), the project is investigated over the space of 10 months the Grid-enabling of both multimedia and bibliographic services at EDINA, and the geospatial services. The project extended work already begun, eg, via the SEE-GEO project, examining how the Geospatial services may be adapted to take advantage of developments in Grid technology. The deliverables from both these projects are demonstrators and reports on next steps to production grid services. In 2007, one of the most significant GEESE developments was the support given by NaCTem (National Centre for Text Mining) in respect of the bibliographic demonstrator.

Marine Overlays on Topography for Annex II Valuation and Exploitation (MOTIIVE)

This two-year European Union FP6 funded project started in September 2005. It was a multi-partner international project whose objectives were closely related to the European INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe) and GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) initiatives. The goal was to demonstrate how best international practice (principally Australian) in the use of open geospatial interoperability standards (OGC and ISO 191xx series) could be leveraged to achieve data harmonisation in the marine thematic area. EDINA’s principle role was in deploying the services and software necessary to demonstrate the approach taken working. Towards the end of 2006, EDINAs involvement stepped up significantly and the required software began to be procured and installed. Building the demonstrator began in Q2 2007 and the project was extended in Q3 with appropriate refinancing for EDINA. The end date for Motiive became 31 October 2007.

Secure Access to Geospatial services (SEE-GEO)

This 18-month JISC funded project started in October 2006. Part of the Grid OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) Collision programme, the broad intention is to investigate the issues surrounding making OGC web services securely available in a grid environment. The ultimate aim is to make EDINA geospatial data and processing services more widely available within the UK e-infrastructure. SEE-GEO is charged with producing demonstrators. In November 2006, the OGC initiated the Geolinking Interoperability Experiment and the SEE-GEO partner organisations (Mimas, the National Centre for e-Social Science, and the National e-Science Centre) elected to join in. The first SEE-GEO demonstrator (e-Social Science) was completed in Q3 2007. As SEE-GEO is standards-based, much of the focus has concentrated on related activities within the main grid and geospatial standards defining organisation, i.e the Open Grid Forum and OGC respectively. One outcome of this activity has been the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the two organisations. The remainder of the project will concentrate more on security and provide the remaining two demonstrators.

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13. International Work

As a national datacentre, EDINA recognises the international dimensions to its work. Much of the raw material deployed in building and operating the digital library, data, software and hardware is international, and vendors view the UK market within the context of their global strategy. The business of academic research and teaching has comparable international context. The UK has a contribution to make and itself benefits from international engagement.

EDINA continued to develop this side of its work, with Europe having significance alongside global, especially American, context. Listed below are some of those developments, including that for staff development as information professionals.

IASSIST

For many years Data Library staff have been active members of the International Association of Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST), an international organisation of individuals who are engaged in the acquisition, processing, maintenance and distribution of machine-readable text and/or numeric social science data. The membership of IASSIST (founded some 30 years ago) includes information system specialists, database librarians or administrators, archivists, researchers, programmers and managers. IASSIST holds an annual conference in the USA or Canada for three years out of four and in Europe in the fourth year. EDINA staff attended the 2007 conference in Montreal, Quebec.

Geospatial Activities

The Geo-services team was increasingly involved in geospatial activities internationally. It continued its well-established participation in international geospatial standards work funded, in part, by the Open Grid Forum. Areas of activity included Web Services (data and maps), registries and catalogues, grid, access management and data preservation. A member of the Geo-services team, Chris Higgins, co-chaired the Open Geospatial Consortium’s (OGC) University Working Group. Chris played a critical role in raising awareness within the Open Grid Forum of the geospatial area and the work of the OGC, and assisted in brokering a Memorandum of Understanding between the two standards defining organisations. Other examples of EDINA role internationally include:

• Involvement in the work of the International Steering Committee on Global Mapping. EDINA represented this organisation at a United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure Global Partners meeting in Italy in March 2007.
• The invitation for EDINA to participate in the Workshop on Digital Gazetteer Research and Practice in Santa Barbara, California in December 2006.

New funding opportunities arose as a result of EDINA’s engagement, with invitations to participate in a number of European projects. One example is the European Persistent Geospatial Testbed, in collaboration with AGILE (Association Geographic Information Laboratories Europe) and EuroSDR (effectively the research arms of the National Mapping and Charting Agencies represented at a European level).

SUNCAT

Active participation in the ISSN Network continued. There was also productive contact with national union catalogues of serials, especially across Europe. Contact and discussions took place with OCLC with regard to common areas of interest with regard to management and use of bibliographic data.

Open Access

EDINA, through its director, has been actively participating in European Union activity in the open access arena including:

Scholarly Communications

• ASEAN University Library Convention (September 2006
• ICOLC – Rome (October 2006)
• Chairing a session on Scientific Publishing in the European Research Area (February 2007)

Learning and Teaching

• OLCOS – Open eLearning Content Observatory Services – expert meeting (November 2006, Barcelona)

Shibboleth

This initiative, described in more detail in sections 9 and 12 in this report, was necessarily international. Members of the SDSS team worked closely with colleagues in the Internet2 MACE-Shibboleth project, and contributed to the Shibboleth code base. In addition, the team was involved in standards activities and contributed to the development of a new WAYF protocol.

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14. EDINA Management Board

The University of Edinburgh and the Higher Education Funding Council for England signed a Funding Agreement, in parallel to that entered into by the University of Manchester (with respect to Mimas), under which a new body was established which came into effect from 1 August 2005. The chairman of the Management Board is Professor Mike Tedd, Department of Computer Science, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Other members external to EDINA include Dr Mark Brown, University Librarian at Southampton University and member of JISC Content Services Committee, Malcolm Taggart, JIBS, John Robinson, JISC Services Manager, Sarah Porter, JISC Head of Development,and Helen Hayes, Vice Principal for Knowledge Management, the University of Edinburgh (succeeded by Professor Jeff Haywood, Vice Principal for Knowledge Management, the University of Edinburgh). Three meetings were held in October 2006, March 2007 and June 2007.

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15. EDINA Management

EDINA and the Edinburgh University Data Library constituted one of seven planning units within the University’s Information Services overseen by Vice Principal Helen Hayes ,succeeded by Professor Jeff Haywood since spring 2007.

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APPENDIX 1: EDINA Services

Bibliographic Services

CAB Abstracts

Bibliographic database compiled by CAB International. Covers the significant research and development literature in the fields of agriculture, forestry, certain aspects of human health, human nutrition, animal health and the management and conservation of natural resources.

Index to The Times, 1790-1980

The Index to The Times, 1790-1980 is an EDINA web service which comprises Palmer’s Index to The Times (covering the years 1790 to 1905), and the Official Index to The Times (covering the years 1906-1980). This service is a valuable reference for historians of all areas of British life and international affairs.

Inspec

Bibliographic database for access to leading scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing and information technology. Produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers

Land Life Leisure

Covers current developments in agriculture and all rural topics, conservation, estate management, forestry, horticulture, recreation and tourism. The database originates from the academic and research communities mainly from Aberystwyth, with contributions from five other land based colleges.

Statistical Accounts of Scotland

Online version of the full text of two accounts of Scottish parishes conducted in the 1790s and 1830s, published as the First and New Statistical Accounts of Scotland. Together they provide a record of many aspects of life in Scotland at the time. Run on behalf of a consortium set up by SCURL, the Scottish Confederate of University and Research Libraries.

General Reference

SALSER

Scottish Academic Libraries Serials, SALSER, a World Wide Web-based virtual union catalogue of the serials holdings of all 13 Scottish universities, the municipal research libraries of Edinburgh and Glasgow, numerous smaller Scottish research libraries and the National Library of Scotland. Facilitates access to information on serials and thereby ensure their fuller and more effective use by students and researchers in Scotland.

SUNCAT

SUNCAT is a UK national catalogue of serials. It has two principal aims: to be the key resource for locating serials titles in UK research libraries , and to be a source of high quality records to help upgrading of local catalogues.

Geospatial Services

Digimap Ordnance Survey Collection

Delivers Ordnance Survey map data to UK HE and FE. Data is available either to download to use with appropriate application software such as GIS or CAD, or as maps generated by Digimap online. Allows users to view and print maps of any location in Great Britain at a series of predefined scales. Advanced tasks that Digimap enables are downloading map data for use, for example, in GIS software on a user’s own desktop; advanced cartographic tasks, such as user-specified scale, combining datasets on a map, large format printing; gazetteer functions on place names, postcode area and attribute look up.

Historic Digimap

Historic Digimap offers historic Ordnance Survey maps of Great Britain to UK HE and FE. These have been generated by Landmark Information Group. The collection includes the following maps:

• All available County Series maps at 1:2500 and 1:10 560 scales published between 1843 and 1939.
• All available National Grid maps at 1:1250, 1:2500, 1:10 560 and 10 000 scales published from 1945 and before the introduction of the OS digital Land-Line product.

From Historic Digimap it is possible to print maps and download them as geo-referenced images for use in GIS or image processing software. The facility also allows you to view up to four maps simultaneously, enabling you to see how the maps have changed over time.

Geology Digimap

Delivers geological maps and data from the British Geological Survey (BGS). Users can view maps through a web browser, save maps for printing and download the geological map data for use in geographical information systems

UKBORDERS

The UK Boundary Outline and Reference Database for Education and Research Study offers access to database of UK digitised boundaries. Includes coverage relating to population census, administrative, electoral and postal areas. The web-based interface provides digitised boundary datasets in many GIS formats (MapInfo MIF/MID, ArcView Shape, Arc/Info Export and several others) for users to download. Also hosts historical boundary data relating to the 19th and 20th centuries and contemporary and historical postcode directories.

agcensus

Delivers agricultural census data for Great Britain as grid square estimates for a geographic area for a particular year at a specified resolution. The spatial distribution of census items for a given region and resolution for a particular year can also be mapped.

Multimedia

Education Image Gallery

The Education Image Gallery is a JISC-funded service that provides access to a collection of 60,000 images. The images are drawn from the vast resources of the Hulton Archive, Photodisc and the Getty Images® News Service (current events and sport) and they cover key events and multiple subject areas including history, entertainment, sport, science, fashion, politics, music, conflict, film, art, leisure and women’s studies.

Film & Sound Online

Film & Sound Online is a JISC-funded set of collections of film and video, hosted by EDINA and cleared and digitised through JISC’s Managing Agent and Advisory Service (MAAS), who also produced associated metadata. The films are of high quality, and are fully downloadable, either in full or as segments, and can be used freely in learning, teaching and research.

Middleware Services

OpenURL Router

The OpenURL Router helps service providers solve the appropriate copy problem by routing an OpenURL query to the OpenURL Resolver being used by a given user’s institutional library. The OpenURL Router links bibliographic services to full text via OpenURL Resolvers.

Repositories

The Depot

The Depot is a national facility that enables all UK academics to deposit e-prints for safe keeping whilst their institution has no e-print repository in place. As with all UK repositories its contents are harvested and searched through the Intute Repository Search project, allowing academics to share in the benefits of open access exposure for their research outputs. The Depot also offers a UK Repository Junction to enable users discover if they have a local repository and then redirects the user to that repository.

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APPENDIX 2: Number of log-ins

Number of Logins per Service August 06 – July 07

Service	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Total
UK Borders	1841	881	1982	2618	2345	2847	2663	2923	2088	1855	1281	1287	24611
Index to the Times	127	143	249	328	193	262	316	277	213	188	127	147	2570
Land Life & Leisure	520	1371	6165	4598	1958	2420	2583	2971	1574	1816	595	454	27025
Digimap OS	11890	15079	40263	43311	14853	20382	27001	26285	18212	18022	10838	10296	256432
Historic Digimap	1544	1822	4535	4964	2852	3441	5008	4819	3915	3416	2412	2163	40891
Geology Digimap						49	551	732	454	547	372	362	3067
Film & Sound Online*	5350	9020	25024	5400	2759	3446	17084	26031	20760	19891	11204	12055	158024
Education Image Gallery	950	4408	4019	3703	1581	2329	2093	2727	1555	446	1312	935	26058
SUNCAT	-	-	-	2851	1987	2831	2997	3185	3056	3379	3373	3550	27209

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APPENDIX 3: Registered Institutions

Institution	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Aberdeen College					X
Accrington & Rossendale College									X
Alton College										X
Anglia Ruskin University	X				X					X
Angus College				X	X
Aquinas College	X				X					X
Arts Institute at Bournemouth				X	X					X
Ashton-under-Lyne Sixth Form College				X	X				X	X
Askham Bryan College								X
Aston University	X	X			X					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Aylesbury College				X	X
Ayr College					X					X
B6 Sixth Form College Brooke House										X
Barking College					X					X
Barnet College					X					X
Barnfield College					X					X
Barnsley College	X				X
Barony College					X
Bath Spa University College	X			X	X					X
BBSRC					X			X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Bede College					X					X
Bedford College	X				X					X
Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education					X					X
Bell College					X					X
Bexhill College										X
Bicton College								X
Bilborough College	X			X	X
Birkbeck College, University of London				X	X					X
Birkenhead Sixth Form College					X
Bishop Auckland College					X					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Bishop Burton College	X							X
Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln					X					X
Blackpool and the Fylde College				X	X				X	X
Blackpool Sixth Form College										X
Bolton Community College					X				X	X
Bolton Sixth Form College										X
Borders College					X					X
Boston College					X
Bournemouth and Poole College				X	X					X
Bournemouth University	X	X	X	X	X					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Bournville College of FE										X
Bracknell and Wokingham College					X					X
Bradford College					X					X
Braintree College					X					X
Bridge College									X
Bridgend College								X
Bridgwater College								X
Brighton and Sussex Medical School					X
Brighton, Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College	X			X	X
Bromley College					X					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Brooklands College					X					X
Brooksby Melton College								X
Brunel University	X				X					X
Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College					X					X
Burnley College					X					X
Burton College of Further Education					X				X	X
Bury College					X
Cadbury Sixth Form College				X
Calderdale College				X	X					X
Cambridge Regional College					X					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Cambridge University	X	X			X		X			X
Canterbury Christ Church University College	X				X	X			X	X
Canterbury College					X
Cardiff University	X	X		X	X		X		X	X
Cardinal Newman College					X
Cardonald College					X					X
Carlisle College										X
Carmel College				X	X					X
Carshalton College										X
Castle College Nottingham					X					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
CCLRC							X
Central College of Commerce				X	X					X
Central Sussex College										X
Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form College					X					X
Chelmsford College										X
Chesterfield College	X				X					X
Chichester College	X				X					X
Christ the King Sixth Form College					X
Cirencester College										X
City and Islington College				X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
City College Birmingham					X
City College Coventry					X					X
City College Manchester					X				X
City College Norwich					X					X
City of Bath College	X			X						X
City of Bristol College					X					X
City of Stoke on Trent Sixth Form College	X
City of Sunderland College					X					X
City University	X				X
Cleveland College of Art and Design					X					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Clydebank College					X					X
Coatbridge College										X
Colchester Institute				X	X					X
Coleg Glan Hafren					X					X
Coleg Llandrillo					X				X	X
Coleg Llyfasi										X
Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor					X
Coleg Menai					X					X
Coleg Morgannwg					X					X
Coleg Powys					X					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Coleg Sir Gar					X			X	X
College of North West London									X	X
College of Richard Collyer				X	X					X
College of St Mark and St John	X				X
College of West Anglia				X	X					X
Cornwall College								X		X
Coventry University	X	X			X					X
Cranfield University	X			X	X					X
Craven College					X					X
Cricklade College					X					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Croydon College				X						X
Cumbernauld College				X	X
Cumbria Institute of the Arts				X	X
De Montfort University	X			X	X					X
Deeside College				X	X					X
Derby College				X	X			X		X
Doncaster College					X
Dublin Institute of Technology							X
Dudley College of Technology	X				X					X
Dumfries and Galloway College					X					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Dundee College	X			X	X					X
Dunstable College										X
Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College				X	X					X
East Antrim Institute of Further and Higher Education					X					X
East Devon College					X
East Down Institute of Further and Higher Education					X				X	X
East Norfolk Sixth Form College	X			X						X
East Surrey College					X					X
Easton College				X				X		X
Eccles College					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Edge Hill University	X	X	X	X	X					X
Edinburgh College of Art	X	X			X
Edinburgh’s Telford College				X	X					X
Elmwood College	X				X					X
Epping Forest College										X
Exeter College	X			X	X					X
Fareham College					X					X
Farnborough College of Technology					X					X
Fermanagh College					X
Filton College				X						X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Forth Valley College of Further and Higher Education				X	X				X
Franklin College					X
Gateshead College					X				X	X
Glasgow Caledonian University	X			X	X				X	X
Glasgow College of Nautical Studies				X	X					X
Glasgow Metropolitan College	X			X	X					X
Glasgow School of Art	X				X					X
Gloscat					X				X	X
Goldsmiths College University of London					X
Gorseinon College										X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Grantham College										X
Greenhead College										X
Greenwich Community College				X	X					X
Guildford College of FE & HE	X				X			X		X
Hadlow College								X
Halesowen College		X			X
Harlow College				X	X					X
Harper-Adams University College					X			X
Harrow College										X
Hartlepool College of Further Education				X	X					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Havering College of FE and HE										X
Henley College, Coventry					X				X	X
Hereford Sixth Form College	X				X
Hereward College				X	X
Heriot-Watt University	X								X	X
Hertford Regional College					X
Highbury College										X
Holy Cross College				X	X					X
Hopwood Hall College					X
Huddersfield Technical College										X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Hugh Baird College					X					X
Hull College				X	X				X	X
Imperial College London	X				X
Institute of Cancer Research										X
Institute of Education, University of London				X	X					X
Itchen College					X					X
James Watt College of Further and Higher Education										X
Jewel and Esk Valley College					X					X
John Leggott College					X					X
John Ruskin College										X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
John Wheatley College					X
Keele University	X	X			X	X				X
Kendal College										X
Kensington and Chelsea College					X					X
Kidderminster College					X					X
Kilmarnock College										X
King Edward VI College					X
King’s College, London					X		X			X
Kingston College					X					X
Kingston Maurward College	X	X						X		X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Kingston University	X	X		X	X					X
Knowsley Community College									X	X
Lake College, West Cumbria										X
Lancaster and Morecambe College of FE									X	X
Lancaster University	X	X			X		X		X	X
Langside College					X					X
Lauder College	X				X				X	X
Leeds College of Art and Design										X
Leeds College of Music					X					X
Leeds Metropolitan University	X				X					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Leeds Thomas Danby College				X	X
Leek College					X					X
Leicester College										X
Lewisham College				X	X					X
Lincoln College				X	X				X	X
Liverpool Community College									X	X
Liverpool Hope University College	X	X	X							X
Liverpool John Moores University	X	X			X					X
London Metropolitan University	X	X			X					X
London School of Economics and Political Science	X			X	X	X			X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine										X
London South Bank University	X	X	X		X					X
Long Road Sixth Form College					X					X
Longley Park Sixth Form College					X
Loughborough College					X					X
Loughborough University	X				X				X	X
Luton Sixth Form College	X
Macclesfield College					X					X
Manchester College of Arts & Technology									X	X
Manchester Metropolitan University	X	X			X					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Metro, Anniesland College					X					X
Mid Cheshire College				X	X					X
Middlesbrough College					X					X
Middlesex University Higher Education Corporation	X				X					X
Mid-Kent College				X	X					X
Motherwell College					X					X
Moulton College	X		X		X			X		X
Napier University	X				X					X
Nelson & Colne College									X
New College Durham					X					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
New College Nottingham	X		X	X	X					X
New College Pontefract					X
New College Swindon	X				X
New College Stamford				X	X					X
New College Telford					X				X	X
Newbattle Abbey College					X					X
Newcastle College	X			X	X					X
Newcastle-under-Lyme College					X	X				X
Newman College of Further Education					X					X
Newry & Kilkeel Institute					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
North Devon College					X					X
North Down and Ards Institute				X	X
North East Institute of Further and Higher Education					X					X
North East Surrey College of Technology				X	X					X
North East Wales Institute					X					X
North Hertfordshire College				X	X				X	X
North Lindsey College										X
North Nottinghamshire College					X					X
North Trafford College					X				X	X
North Warwickshire & Hinckley College					X					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
North West Institute of Further and Higher Education				X
Northampton College					X					X
Northbrook College Sussex										X
Northern College for Residential Adult Education	X				X
Northumberland College					X					X
Norton Radstock College				X					X	X
Norwich School of Art and Design				X	X					X
Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College	X	X
Nottingham Trent University	X			X	X			X
Oaklands College					X					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Oldham Sixth Form College	X			X	X
Omagh College of Further and Higher Education					X
Orpington College				X
Otley College of Agriculture and Horticulture								X		X
Oxford & Cherwell Valley College					X					X
Oxford Brookes University	X	X		X	X	X			X	X
Palmer’s College				X
Park Lane College										X
Pembrokeshire College	X				X
Pendleton College					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Penwith College					X					X
Pershore Group of Colleges								X
Peter Symonds’ College	X
Plymouth College of Art and Design				X						X
Preston College					X					X
Priestley College										X
Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College					X					X
Queen Margaret University College					X
Queen Mary University London	X									X
Queen Mary’s College				X
Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication					X					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Reaseheath College								X		X
Redcar and Cleveland College										X
Regent College										X
Reid Kerr College					X					X
Riverside College Halton					X				X
Robert Gordon University	X				X					X
Rodbaston College								X		X
Roehampton University					X	X				X
Rose Bruford College				X	X
Rotherham College of Arts & Technology					X					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Royal Agricultural College								X
Royal College of Physicians of London					X					X
Royal Forest of Dean College					X					X
Royal Holloway, University of London					X					X
Royal Northern College of Music					X
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama					X					X
Royal Veterinary College										X
Runshaw College									X
Sabhal Mor Ostaig									X
Salford College					X				X	X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Salisbury College					X					X
Sandwell College					X					X
School of Oriental and African Studies					X
Scottish Agricultural College	X				X			X		X
Scottish Further Education Unit									X
Selby College					X
Sheffield College	X
Sheffield Hallam University	X	X			X					X
Shrewsbury College of Arts and Technology					X				X	X
Sir George Monoux College				X	X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Sir John Deane’s College										X
Solihull College					X				X
Solihull Sixth Form College	X			X	X
Somerset College of Arts and Technology										X
South Birmingham College									X	X
South Devon College					X					X
South Downs College	X			X	X					X
South East Derbyshire College				X	X					X
South East Essex College					X
South Kent College										X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
South Lanarkshire College										X
South Nottingham College					X					X
South Thames College				X	X
South Trafford College				X	X					X
South Tyneside College					X					X
Southampton City College										X
Southampton Solent University				X	X
Southport College										X
Southwark College					X				X
Sparsholt College Hampshire	X				X			X		X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
St Brendan’s Sixth Form College				X	X					X
St Charles Catholic Sixth Form College				X	X					X
St David’s Catholic College				X	X					X
St Francis Xavier Sixth Form College				X						X
St George’s University of London					X				X	X
St Helens College	X			X	X				X	X
St John Rigby College									X
St Martin’s College		X	X		X					X
St Mary’s College Middlesbrough										X
St Mary’s College Twickenham										X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Stafford College					X				X	X
Staffordshire University					X				X	X
Stephenson College										X
Stevenson College, Edinburgh	X				X				X
Stockport College									X	X
Stockton Riverside College	X				X					X
Stockton Sixth Form College					X					X
Stoke-on-Trent College					X				X	X
Stourbridge College					X
Stow College	X				X				X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Stranmillis University College					X					X
Suffolk New College	X			X	X					X
Sussex Downs College					X					X
Sutton Coldfield College				X	X
Swansea College				X	X				X	X
Swansea Institute of Higher Education					X
Swindon College										X
Tameside College										X
Tamworth and Lichfield College					X					X
Telford College of Arts and Technology					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Thames Valley University				X	X					X
Thanet College										X
The Adam Smith College, Fife									X	X
The City Literary Institute				X	X					X
The Community College Hackney				X	X
The Higher Education Academy Physical Sciences Centre									X
The Mary Ward Centre					X					X
The Oldham College				X	X					X
The Open University	X	X	X	X	X	X				X
The Queen’s University of Belfast									X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
The Royal National College for the Blind	X			X						X
The Sixth Form College, Colchester	X			X	X
The Sixth Form College, Farnborough				X	X					X
Thomas Rotherham College					X					X
Totton College				X	X
Tower Hamlets College	X								X	X
Treloar College				X
Tresham Institute of FE & HE				X					X
Trinity and All Saints College				X	X
Trinity College of Music					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Trinity College, Carmarthen				X	X					X
Truro College					X
UHI Millennium Institute	X				X
University Campus Suffolk										X
University College Dublin							X	X
University College Falmouth	X	X			X					X
University College for the Creative Arts	X			X	X					X
University College London	X	X			X					X
University of Aberdeen	X				X					X
University of Abertay Dundee					X					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
University of Bath	X	X			X					X
University of Bedfordshire				X	X					X
University of Birmingham	X	X	X		X				X	X
University of Bolton	X				X					X
University of Bradford					X					X
University of Brighton	X			X	X					X
University of Bristol	X	X	X		X
University of Central England	X				X					X
University of Central Lancashire	X	X		X	X			X		X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
University of Chester	X				X				X	X
University of Chichester										X
University of Derby				X	X				X
University of Dundee	X	X			X
University of Durham	X	X			X
University of East Anglia	X				X
University of East London	X	X			X					X
University of Edinburgh	X	X		X	X				X	X
University of Essex						X			X	X
University of Exeter	X	X		X	X					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
University of Glamorgan	X				X		X		X	X
University of Glasgow	X	X	X		X					X
University of Gloucestershire	X	X		X	X					X
University of Greenwich	X	X			X					X
University of Hertfordshire	X	X		X	X		X			X
University of Huddersfield				X	X				X	X
University of Hull	X	X		X	X	X				X
University of Kent at Canterbury	X				X				X	X
University of Leeds	X	X	X	X	X				X	X
University of Leicester	X	X	X		X	X				X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
University of Lincoln	X				X					X
University of Liverpool	X	X	X		X					X
University of London Library		X			X					X
University of Manchester	X	X	X	X	X				X	X
University of Newcastle upon Tyne	X	X	X		X		X			X
University of Northampton	X			X	X					X
University of Northumbria at Newcastle	X	X		X	X				X	X
University of Nottingham	X	X		X	X		X
University of Oxford	X	X			X				X	X
University of Paisley					X					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
University of Plymouth	X		X	X	X					X
University of Portsmouth	X	X			X					X
University of Reading	X	X		X	X
University of Salford	X				X					X
University of Sheffield	X	X			X				X	X
University of Southampton	X	X			X				X	X
University of St Andrews	X				X					X
University of Stirling	X				X				X	X
University of Strathclyde	X
University of Sunderland					X					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
University of Surrey					X
University of Sussex	X	X			X					X
University of Teesside				X	X					X
University of the Arts London				X	X					X
University of the West of England	X	X	X		X			X		X
University of Ulster				X	X	X				X
University of Wales, Aberystwyth	X	X	X		X	X		X		X
University of Wales, Bangor	X	X	X		X					X
University of Wales Institute, Cardiff					X				X	X
University of Wales, Lampeter	X		X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
University of Wales, Newport					X
University of Wales, Swansea	X				X					X
University of Warwick	X			X	X					X
University of Westminster	X	X		X	X
University of Winchester				X	X	X				X
University of Wolverhampton	X			X	X				X	X
University of Worcester	X			X	X	X				X
University of York	X	X			X	X				X
Varndean Sixth Form College					X					X
Wakefield College					X					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Walford and North Shropshire College								X		X
Walsall College	X									X
Waltham Forest College	X									X
Warrington Collegiate										X
Warwickshire College	X			X	X			X	X	X
Wellcome Trust					X
West Cheshire College									X	X
West Herts College	X				X
West Lothian College					X					X
West Nottinghamshire College										X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
West Suffolk College					X
West Thames College				X
Westminster Kingsway College										X
Weston College
Weymouth College				X						X
Weymouth College					X					X
Wigan and Leigh College	X								X
Wiltshire College								X		X
Wirral Metropolitan College									X	X
Woking College	X				X					X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Worcester College of Technology	X				X					X
Worcester Sixth Form College	X									X
Worthing College										X
Writtle Agricultural College					X			X		X
Wyggeston & Queen Elizabeth 1st College				X
Xaverian College				X
Yale College of Wrexham					X
Yeovil College	X			X	X					X
York College	X				X				X
York St John University College				X	X				X	X
	Digimap OS	Historic Digimap	Geology Digimap	EIG	Film & Sound Online	Index to The Times	INSPEC	Land Life Leisure	Jorum Depository	Jorum User
Yorkshire Coast College										X
Ystrad Mynach College										X

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APPENDIX 4: Summary of Expenditure 2006/2007

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APPENDIX 5: Staff at EDINA and Data Library

Director and Administration

• Peter Burnhill, Director
• Ingrid Earp (PT), Senior Administrator
• Aileen Scott Johnson, Administrator
• Isobel Johnstone, Administrative Secretary/Director’s PA
• Julie Whitefield, Clerical Officer

Local Services

• Robin Rice, Data Librarian
• Stuart Macdonald , Assistant Data Librarian

IT Technical Infrastructure

• Alan Ferguson, Manager and Head of Infrastructure
• Gavin Inglis, Computing Officer
• John Murison, Federation Coordinator
• Sandy Shaw, Senior Technical Officer

Service Delivery: Bibliographic and Multimedia Services

• Christine Rees, Manager and Head of Bibliographic and Multimedia Service Delivery
• Natasha Aburrow-Jones, Project Officer
• Mark Allan, Software Engineer (from April 2007)
• Colin Gormley, Software Engineer
• Fred Guy, Project Manager
• Leah Halliday (PT), Business Development Officer
• Jonathan Hunter, Software Engineer (to December 2006)
• Rick Loup (PT), Multimedia Services Development Officer
• Morag Macgregor, Software Engineer
• Zena Mulligan (PT), Project Officer
• Nicola Osborne, Senior Library Assistant
• Ben Soares, Senior Software Engineer
• Tim Stickland, Senior Software Engineer
• Ian Stuart, Software Engineer
• Moira Whitson, Senior Library Assistant

Learning and Teaching

• Moira Massey, Learning and Teaching Project Coordinator
• Catherine Fleming (PT), Project Officer
• Sarah McConnell, Project Officer (to September 2006)
• Peter O’Hare, Technical Support Officer (from November 2006)
• Andrew Richardson, Jorum Service Coordinator (from March 2007)
• Steve Rogers, Jorum Service Coordinator (to October 2006)

Geo-Data and Research Services

• David Medyckyj-Scott, Manager and Head of Research and Geo-data Service Delivery
• Jagdeep Addagarla, Senior Software Engineer (to June 2007)
• Eddie Boyle, Software Engineer (to June 2007)
• Duncan Clarkson, Software Engineer
• Andrew Corbett, Senior Software Engineer
• Andrew Cowie, GIS Technician
• James Crone, GIS Analyst
• Chris Higgins, Product and Services Development Workgroup Leader
• Michael Koutroumpas, Software Engineer
• Tony Mathys, Metadata Officer
• Brian O’Hare, Software Engineer (from March 2007)
• Meghan Pike, Software Engineer
• James Reid, Business Development Workgroup Leader/Service Manager
• Anne Robertson (PT), Project Manger
• Jennie Robertson, Software Engineer
• Tim Riley, Project Manager
• Andrew Seales, Software Engineer
• Rebecca Seymour, Project Officer
• Mark Small, Software Engineer (from March 2007)
• Tim Urwin, Geo Data Manager/Workgroup Leader
• Andrew Williams, Software Engineer (to March 2007)

User Support

• Helen Chisholm (PT), Manager and Head of User Support

Helpdesk

• Helen McVey, Helpdesk Supervisor
• Paula Cuccurullo, Helpdesk Assistant

Outreach and Support

• Tom Armitage, Support Officer
• Andrew Bevan, User Support Workgroup Leader
• Rick Loup (PT), Support Officer
• Peigi MacKillop (PT), Training Officer (to July 2007)
• Guy McGarva (PT), Support Officer
• Emma Sutton, User Support Workgroup Leader

Documentation

• Alexis Cameron, Documentation Assistant (from November 2006)
• Jacqueline Clark, Web and Graphic Designer
• Paul Milne, Documentation and Web Officer

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APPENDIX 6: Conferences, Courses and Presentations

Conferences, Presentations and Exhibitions

August 2006

• RGS – IBG Conference, Imperial College, London

September 2006

• ALT-C, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
• Learning on Screen, Birmingham
• CIG Annual Conference, Norwich
• ASEAN University Library Convention, Brunei
• All Hands Conference, Nottingham

October 2006

• RSC SE LIT Fair, Guildford
• Open Scholarship 2006 Conference, Glasgow
• ICOLC, Rome

November 2006

• Online, London
• DCC Conference, Glasgow
• CHArt Conference, London

January 2007

• DCC All Hands Meeting, Morpeth
• Connecting Culture with Commerce, London

February 2007

• Scientific Publishing in European Research Area Conference, Brussels

March 2007

• JISC Annual Conference, ICC, Birmingham
• Media Guardian Changing Media Conference, London
• LILAC Conference, Manchester

April 2007

• GISRUK 2007, Dublin
• Learning on Screen Conference, London.
• CERN Conference on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, Geneva
• UKSG, University of Warwick

May 2007

• Open Grid Forum Conference, Manchester
• GeoData2007, Edinburgh
• IASSIST Conference, Montreal
• GISUpdate Conference, Edinburgh
• JISC Digital Repositories Conference, Manchester

June 2007

• RSC North West Annual Conference, Blackpool

July 2007

• HE Academy Annual Conference, Harrogate

Meetings and Courses

August 2006

• CLOCKSS Meeting, New York

September 2006

• Practical Project Management Course, Glasgow
• BL Sound Archive, London
• BQAG, Edinburgh
• JISC Interim Repository, RSP and Intute Meeting, London
• ISSN Directors’ Meeting, Stockholm
• Datacentres and DRP Data Cluster Information Meeting, Didcot
• EuroGeoNames, Luxembourg
• Grid OGC Collision Meeting, Newcastle
• GGF18 (Global Grid Forum), Washington DC

October 2006

• Digital Rights and Asset Management: Access and Press Forum, Glasgow
• OGC Technical Committee Meeting. Washington DC

November 2006

• JIBS Meeting, Manchester
• OLCOS Expert Meeting, Barcelona
• CAC Meeting, Windsor
• AGI-Scotland Annual Conference, Glasgow

December 2006

• Community Space Communicating Workshop, Birmingham
• JISC Marketing Group Meeting, London
• EuroGeoNames, Paris
• JISC Legal and Policy Cluster Group Meeting, Edinburgh
• ELISA E-Content Portal Group Meeting, Edinburgh

January 2007

• Scottish Visual Arts Group Meeting Wednesday, Dundee
• JISC Geospatial Working Group, London
• GridGIS Working Group Meeting, London
• Scottish Webteams Forum, Edinburgh

February 2007

• AGI Coastal and Marine SIG, London
• EuroGeoNames, Amsterdam
• JISC e-framework Workshop, Aston University Business School, Birmingham
• JISC IPR Advisory Group, London

March 2007

• UN Global Partners Meeting, Frascati, Italy
• EuroGeoNames, Madrid
• Jorum and OpenLearn Meeting, London
• NGS Grid Meeting, Manchester
• CIGS (Cataloguing and Indexing Group in Scotland) AGM, Edinburgh
• Marine Digimap User Liaison Meeting, Cardiff
• JISC NewsFilm Online Development to Service Meeting, London
• DISC-UK – UKDA Meeting, London
• General Household Survey/Integrated Household Survey – User Forum, London

April 2007

• Census User Group, London
• JISC Images Working Group, London
• e-Science for the Arts and Humanities, NeSC, Edinburgh
• JISC Collections Online Film and Sound Working Group, London
• ELISA E-Content Working Group, Edinburgh

May 2007

• CLADDIER Workshop, Southampton
• Census Advisory Committee Meeting, Edinburgh
• ESRI Census Programme Innovation Awards Town Meeting, Edinburgh
• GRO-S 2011 Census Consultation Meeting, Edinburgh
• JISC Federated Access Management Meeting, Birmingham

June 2007

• JISC Communications and Marketing Group Meeting, London
• Tobar an Dualchais Steering Group Meeting, Edinburgh
• Scottish Visual Arts Group Management Meeting, Edinburgh
• IGGI (Inter-governmental Group on Geographic Information) Working Group on Data Preservation, London

July 2007

• JISC Geospatial Working Group Meeting, Glasgow
• JISC Repositories and Programme Meeting, London
• JISC RSC ILT Forum, Wolverhampton
• OGC Technical Committee Meeting, Paris
• 40th Anniversary Workshop, UK Data Archive, Colchester
• Institutional Web Managers’ Workshop, York

Training and Demonstrations

September 2006

• SUNCAT Workshop, London
• SUNCAT Workshop, Manchester

October 2006

• DCC Geospatial Data Workshop, Edinburgh

November 2006

• Go-Geo! Workshop, Glasgow

December 2006

• Film & Sound Online and EIG training, Glasgow
• Film & Sound Online and EIG training, Manchester

January 2007

• OS MasterMap Training Course, Oxford
• Jorum Training, Cambridge
• Jorum Training, Edinburgh

February 2007

• Jorum Training, Brighton
• Digimap MasterMap Training, Leeds
• Survey Methods and Data Census Training, Edinburgh

March 2007

• Jorum Focus Group, London
• Survey Methods and Data Census Training, Edinburgh
• Netskills Workshop: Blogs, Wikis and Social Networking, University of Newcastle
• Geodemographics and the Social Sciences, Sheffield
• ESRC Invitation-Only Meeting on Quantitative Methods Capacity-Building, London
• JISC RepositoryNet Meeting, London
• Film & Sound Online and EIG Workshop, Sussex
• Digimap Training, Bath

April 2007

• Netskills – Writing for the Web Workshop, Glasgow
• Digimap Training, Milton Keynes
• Digimap Training, Edinburgh
• Visualising Spatial Data Using ArcGIS, Edinburgh

June 2007

• EDINA GeoForum, Leeds
• StORe Demonstrator Workshop, Manchester

July 2007

• MasterMap Training, Leeds
• ALLCU Workshop, Chelmsford

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