EDINA seeks to enhance the productivity of research, learning and teaching in UK Higher and Further Education as a JISC-designated national datacentre delivering specialist data services.
To manage and present a portfolio of data services.
To sustain leadership in the provision of specialist data services, e.g. bibliographic and digital map data.
To offer a significant part of the DNER, by achieving critical mass, market presence and effective collaboration.
To increase the overall utility and relevance of EDINA services, by
To widen access to on-line services, by
To continue to move to an open technological and service environment, by
To sustain and develop a healthy and well-found datacentre, by
To sustain an effective blend of service orientation and development capability, by
To develop and maintain an exceptional IT capability, by
EDINA aims to offer a 24 hour a day, 7 day a week service. Information on planned breaks of service is broadcast to users in advance.
The EDINA Helpdesk is staffed during normal office hours, Monday to Friday. Times during which the Helpdesk is not staffed, such as public holidays, are advertised in advance. It is staffed in a rota system, although duty officers are also drawn from a wider pool within EDINA specifically trained for that purpose. This ensures contingency backup.
The national services included as part of EDINA are funded from several sources, including JISC (via SHEFC), the University of Edinburgh, and by subscription from UK Higher and Further Education Institutions (HEIs and FEIs). A list of subscribing institutions is in Appendix 3.
The provision of services for Art Abstracts, Art Index Retrospective, BIOSIS, Digimap, and Compendex is funded by JISC; UKBORDERS is funded jointly by ESRC and JISC. All other services are funded by direct subscription. These online services are available free at the point of use by staff and students at subscribing institutions for UK academic purposes.
All national services supported by EDINA have been grouped within the scope of the Data Library structure of management and operation.
The User Support Team's purpose is to support users and their support staff. The members are responsible for promoting the EDINA services; for providing a Helpdesk and allied activities; for learning from, and addressing the needs of, academic support staff and end users through the provision of high quality training events and documentation; and feedback to the service delivery teams.
The Service Delivery Team's purpose is to ensure delivery of on-line data services. The functions are those of developing, implementing and maintaining effective on-line data services. This includes the design and implementation of user interfaces and databases, and ensuring regular data updates. Within this team are groups responsible for bibliographic services and for geo-data services.
The IT Technical Infrastructure Team's purpose is to ensure the reliability of the platform to support the on-line services. It is responsible for planning and maintaining the underlying software and hardware platforms, for effective liaison with the Facilities Management Division (FMD) and Network Services Division (NSD) of the University's Computing Services (EUCS), and for specialist programming support as required.
The work of all teams is supported by the Administration and Business Development Team. The purpose of this team is to co-ordinate, to facilitate and to provide administrative support; to seek out and evaluate new opportunities for collection development, and to provide an overview of related project work.
The Facilities Management Division of EUCS provides EDINA with support in the installation, operation and maintenance of the hardware and operating system components of pentlands.ed.ac.uk and pentlands2.ed.ac.uk, the UNIX computing platforms used to host the service, and the connection to the Internet. EUCS manages and operates the largest University-based computing service in the UK and has supported national and regional services since the late 1960s. Edinburgh continues to be a centre of computing and networking excellence, with connections to all major academic networks, including SuperJANET.
EDINA services cover a range of academic disciplines resulting in a heterogeneous user community and target audiences with different user requirements. Each service is assigned a Service Co-ordinator, charged with ensuring the 'long term health' of that service and carrying out a monitoring role on service performance. However, EDINA cannot have staff with specialist knowledge in all subjects covered by its databases: such specialist support is therefore sought from appropriate experts, such as the data vendors, relevant University departments and such as the subject-based Information Gateways (e.g. Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL), Organising Medical Networked Information (OMNI, part of BIOME). We continue to have good working relationships with the subject-based data organisations, such as the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) - particularly the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) and the History Data Service (HDS) - and with other non-JISC organisations in the electronic library, such as the Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN).
EDINA bibliographic and research data services and associated Data Library activities are organised into subject-based 'faculties':
The purpose of the faculty representation is to allow the end user (staff or student) to view the EDINA services within the perspective of a larger 'information landscape'. Rather than a 'one shop, stop' approach, this alerts the actual or prospective user of the EDINA national services, through hot-link pointers, to the existence of other services and facilities of relevance. These include JISC-sponsored services and the subject-based resource discovery facilities, as well as related services.
In order to aid navigation of resources, the EDINA services are also categorised by type:
It is also part EDINA's strategy to provide alternative views of the Information Landscape, for example, the data of special relevance to Scotland.
The principal software used for service delivery are commercially-proven products: OpenText BASIS, OCLC SiteSearch, OVID Web Gateway, Laser-Scan, ESRI ARC/INFO and Ingres. The first two software products have specialist use as database management systems for the bibliographic datasets: BASIS has relational and transactional functionality; OCLC SiteSearch is particularly suited for use within the distributed environment, supporting WWW desktop browser access and Z39.50 v3 interoperability. The OVID software similarly provides Web and Z39.50 access to bibliographic databases. Laser-Scan and ARC/INFO are used for geographic information systems (GIS) applications. Ingres is a relational database management system.
Following a seminar in March 2000, that EDINA organised as part of the JoinUp project, Open URL has been adopted as linking technology for bibliographic services.
Apache is used as the World Wide Web Server, and Perl and Java (client and server side) are used extensively for data processing and in the implementation of user interfaces.
EDINA's policy on provision of documentation and help facilities are outlined in the EDINA's Service Level Definition, which is available from the JISCs Monitoring and Advisory Unit (MAU).
The EDINA web site is designed with a view to improving accessibility: specifically, to help users with visual impairments, and to help all users to navigate the site and to identify the services of particular relevance to them. In addition it was our aim to offer attractive Web pages without excluding those with relatively low-tech equipment.
On the web site, EDINA services are organised into the subject-based 'faculties' and data types. Links to other information services in the UK Electronic Library are also offered, which alert users to the existence of other services and facilities of relevance.
Publicity material in the form of the well-established EDINA A5 flyers and A3 posters were produced and distributed. As with our existing services, new services launched are documented by means of A4 fan-folded 'Quick Reference Guides', and with support material on the EDINA web site.
Online tutorials for a number of EDINA services are published on the Web in HTML format, and as PowerPoint files which can be downloaded and used as training aids by site representatives and other local User Support staff.
All the changes described here were announced in EDINA's quarterly newsletter, Newsline, which continues to play an important role in keeping academic support staff and others with an interest in our services abreast of developments at EDINA. We also include articles from individuals in UK academia, to gain a wider perspective on trends in the community and EDINA's role within it.
EDINA operates a Helpdesk that acts as the primary point of contact for all enquiries concerning EDINA services and responds to enquiries from both end users and support staff. Helpdesk staff are trained to categorise queries, and to refer them to 'experts' inside and outside EDINA as appropriate. Helpdesk enquiries also form an intrinsic part of our user feedback system for the purpose of future developments. A new call logging system, HELIOS, has successfully been introduced.
During the reporting period, EDINA offered a number of workshops and seminars, mainly covering geospatial services. Details are given in appendix 6. The training officer post was part time for 2 months and vacant for 2 months of the period of the report. In total, 135 places in workshops were taken up during the period of the report, a total of 93 people as some attended more than one workshop.
The Training Needs Analysis carried out in November 1999 concluded that training workshops were not warranted for bibliographic services unless major interface changes took place. Most respondents stated they would not attend "ad-hoc" sessions due to time pressure and preferred self-study. Site Representatives and Subject Librarians were happy for more training materials to be made available over the Web Site. It was decided to concentrate on this area of training for bibliographic services, ensuring a range of documentation was available for each service. A further review of bibliographic training provision is to take place at the end of 2001 with site representatives.
In September 2000, three Engineering workshops took place in Nottingham, London and Edinburgh. These were primarily to introduce the new Compendex service with cross-searching of EEVL (The Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library). These were well received and it is hoped that more will be run early in 2002 to introduce further Developments to Compendex.
During the period of the report, six Digimap workshops took place:
November/December 2000 (Middlesex), January 2001 (Edinburgh), June 2001 (Manchester - 2 workshops), July 2001 (Portsmouth) and September 2001 (Newcastle).
As expected, due to the maturity of Digimap as a service (in terms of online help and documentation), attendance at training events has declined. Feedback from users, however, is still extremely positive and as a result of this the Digimap Training Workshops are to be revised this year. An announcement will be made on the EDINA Web site on the 1st of November. Workshops are to be geared towards either Site Representatives or GIS support staff, not both as previously designed. Trainees may attend both types of workshop if they wish to but have the option of only attending one. This will ensure the workshops are better tailored, and attendees can avoid going over information already known to them.
A series of one day workshops (two in Autumn 2000 and three in Spring 2001) have been given by EDINA and MIMAS staff to promote the use of census data and some of the ancillary data manipulation tools that exist in the academic sector. Taking place in Edinburgh, Manchester, London and Glamorgan, and utilising the facilities of Edinburgh University and MIMAS, these workshops have been a successful way of introducing new users to the census data and encouraging existing users to extend their use of the census products. A total of 55 people attended these courses.
We continued to work with the JIBS User Group as an appropriate forum for input from users of EDINA bibliographic services. The Group's mailbase list 'lis-jibs-users' was used in addition to EDINA's own list 'edina-all' to keep users informed of service news. During 2000/2001, EDINA staff attended meetings of the JIBS User Group and presented reports, when invited to do so.
The Digimap Steering Group met regularly during the year to review the progress with the service. With the conclusion of the Phase II roll out, the Group disbanded at its last meeting in June 2001. At this meeting it was agreed to hand over the "steering" element to the EDINA Steering Committee and that Digimap should have an Advisory Group.
UKBORDERS users received information via the 'edina-ukb' mailbase list and continued to be represented through the ESRC Census Advisory Committee that comprises a broad cross-section of relevant groups within the academic community. In addition, UKBORDERS is represented on the management committee of the ESRC-funded Historical GIS Project at Portsmouth University.
During the year EDINA consulted with User Support staff and other representatives of the user community on issues of surrounding the upgrade of the Ovid web gateway; and for the BIOSIS service, for which consultation was undertaken over the future of the telnet interface and the addition of new features to the web interface.
We continued our efforts to market our data services to the academic staff and students in the 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 informative material, either free or on a cost-recovery basis. We also continued our co-operation with the data vendors in promoting our services.
A major challenge during 2000/2001 continued to be the promotion of the Digimap service. The EDINA Digimap service is of interest to a very wide range of users - geographers are expected to form a small minority. This has implications both for the dissemination of information from EDINA and the nature of local support required. A number of documents publicising the service and addressing these issues have been produced and circulated within the community and published as help pages within the service. The training courses for Digimap were revised also emphasised these aspects and provided suggestions for local site support staff on how to publicise the service within their own institutions.
On 4 April 2001 EDINA hosted the Geo-data forum at Newcastle University, for all interested members of UK academia. The idea for this event arose from the huge amount of geo-related activity currently going on at EDINA, at MIMAS and at other subject-oriented centres.
The aims of the day were:
The event was attended by a wide range of people including institutional Site Representatives for geo-services such as Digimap and UKBORDERS, academics who use geo-spatial data in their teaching or research, and PhD students whose research involves the use and analysis of geo-spatial data.
Presentations were given by members of EDINA and MIMAS relating to the geo-data services offered by the two data centres. Members of the academic community also presented papers about their use of these services and the data available. Topics covered included the Landmap Project, mapping and visualising census information, the provision of aerial photography, and geo-spatial services and data available for learning and teaching.
The Statistical Accounts of Scotland were launched as a new online service on 25 January 2001 at the headquarters of the National Trust for Scotland by Professor Christopher Smout, Historiographer Royal for Scotland. The launch was attended by the press and members of government agencies, and academics. Over 100 individuals welcomed this new Domesday Book for Scotland.
During the year EDINA identified a number of relevant specialist conferences at which attendance was appropriate, e.g. CADE, ARCLIB, GISRUK 2001 and DRH (Digital Resources for the Humanities). A full list of conference presentations and exhibitions attended is given in Appendix 6.
Highlights in EDINA's calendar included:
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:
Registration and authentication for most EDINA Services is carried out using Athens.
EDINA continues to advocate the use of personal Athens user accounts to allow us to offer user-level options. However, EDINA offers access to bibliographic Web services from individual and group Athens accounts. This has proved popular with those users who did not require the increased functionality offered through personal accounts.
The numbers of institutions subscribing to JISC supported services in 2000/2001 were:
| Art Abstracts | 53 |
|---|---|
| Art Index Retrospective | 12 |
| BIOSIS Previews | 29 |
| Digimap | 53 |
| Ei Compendex | 73 |
| Inspec | 33 |
| UKBORDERS | 126 |
Log-in statistics are given in Appendix 3.
The Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) has become the centrepiece of the JISC's collections policy. The overall aim of the DNER has been described thus: "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". EDINA has continued its efforts to contribute to the to development of the DNER through its project and service development work to comply with the DNER policy.
As part of our 'Learning and Teaching watch', EDINA has continued its with interested parties, both national and local to us here in Edinburgh.The past year has seen many developments in the Digimap service, ranging from increased subscriptions and registrations to new data and changes to the Terms of Use.
Following the signing of the licence agreements between OS, JISC and EDINA in June 2001, OS agreed that the 30% limit imposed on the availability of Land-Line.Plus data could be removed for the new academic year and beyond. The Ordnance Survey agreed that 100% coverage of this dataset should be made available to the user community through Digimap's mapping facilities and that the restrictions on downloading the data should be relaxed. Under the new system, each institution will be permitted to download 23,000 unique Land-Line.Plus tiles per academic year. This means, for example, that 50 students can download the same tile 50 times and it will only count as 1 tile against the allocation of 23,000. Prior to the introduction of this system, no single institution had downloaded more than 4000 unique tiles; EDINA and Ordnance Survey anticipate that 23,000 tiles will therefore be more than adequate. The key factor in this change is that pre-selection of Land-Line.Plus data by site representatives is no longer required; data tiles are counted as and when they are downloaded. This will save time for both EDINA and site representatives.
At a Digimap Steering Group meeting on 2 April 2001, Ordnance Survey agreed to add their 1:50,000 Colour Raster data to the Digimap agreement. This will be made available through the service on 5 September 2001 followed by an update of the Strategi product and a new version of the OS Meridian product, Meridian 2. The latter, a mid-scale product, is now being updated annually.
Updated versions of Land-Line.Plus and the 1:50,000 Placenames gazetteer have also been put into service. With 330,000,000 objects, the database underlying the service is now the largest online geo-database in the UK and certainly high up the list of international databases that are online in terms of its size.
The number of subscribing institutions had risen to 53 on 31 July 2001 from 43 institutions (as at 1 August 2000). In the same period the total numbers of registered users increased from 1923 to 5786, of which 5010 were active users.
The migration of the Digimap service from Arc/Info GIS to Laser-Scan has continued throughout the last year. The effort involved has been greater than expected and the service delivery team have had to climb a steep learning curve. The basic mapping service was switched to use the Laser-Scan server in May. The release of the new Java applet service, Digimap Carto has been delayed because of technical problems. It was released to Site Representatives for trialling in August and we hope it will become available to all users in early November 2001.
The highlight of the year was EDINA's success in securing continued funding as the Geographical Support Unit for the 2001 Census. Considerable work was put into the development of a comprehensive proposal that would build upon the experience of running a geographic data service since October 1994. Large-scale development of the service has suffered in the last few years because of the way ESRC funding was front-loaded on the early stages of the 5-year contract. With new funding from August 2001, EDINA will be in a position to significantly enhance the online service to meet user needs.
As for the service itself, it was another successful year with an increase in both registered institutions, users and use of the service. UKBORDERS now has 3197 total registered users, an increase of 1008 new registrations since September 2000. Various technical enhancements were made including the introduction of Safe Software's FME technology. This improves the speed and quality of exporting data. On the data side, for the first time 1971 Census ED's for GB have became available as a geographical dataset. These were constructed in-house. The service continues to be promoted at various tertiary education events and a series of one-day workshops have been run in conjunction with the Census Data Unit.
A project has recently begun to migrate the UKBORDERS service to Laser-Scan GIS. This will bring significant benefits and allow the service to inter-operate with EDINA Digimap.
The second half of the AY 2000/2001 saw the addition of the 1985-92 data and a saved-search facility with auto-alerts to the standard EDINA BIOSIS web interface.
In January 2001 a new free web service, the Statistical Accounts of Scotland was added to the EDINA portfolio. The service offers digital images of the pages of the first two The Statistical Accounts of Scotland, published at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries. Covering the 1790s and the 1830s, they are among the best contemporary reports of life during the agricultural and industrial revolutions in Europe. Based largely on information supplied by each parish church minister, the old (first) Statistical Account and the New (second) Statistical Account provide a rich record of a wide variety of topics: wealth, class and poverty; climate, agriculture, fishing and wildlife; population, schools, and the moral health of the people.
A tip of the day feature has been created for EDINAs bibliographic services. There are currently approximately ten tips for each service, and they are displayed randomly on each login page so that by refreshing/reloading the page a different tip appears. The tips of the day will be modified over time to reflect user queries and other feedback and new features.
EDINA Links an institution-specific links-to-holdings and, where relevant, links-to-full-text facility was added to the bibliographic services in October 2000. For users at institutions which have requested the facility, it is available via a blue button at the top of each full record display. On clicking it a new browser window is opened with a list of available links. Clicking on these in turn will run an ISSN or title query against the selected catalogue or database and display results in the new window.
Also in October 2000, an enhanced interface to the EDINA Ei Compendex service was released, following a beta-test period which produced valuable feedback. The new features include cross-searching with Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL), and saved searches.
At the beginning of the AY 2000/2001 a web interface to EDINA Palmer's Index to The Times was introduced, and the Telnet service shut down son thereafter.
The Geo-Crosswalk was a 6-month project which assessed the feasibility of developing and providing an online, Z39.50 compliant, fast, scalable and extensible British and Irish gazetteer service. The project was extended by 2 months to complete the work. The deliverables were a series of reports encompassing user requirements, an audit of data sources, service definition, and an architectural plan.
The project uncovered great interest in the idea of a gazetteer server both within and outside UK academia. The project identified a need for a gazetteer service, a network-addressable middle-ware server, to support other information services within the DNER. It could do this in two ways. First, by supporting geographic searching. Second, by assisting in the geographic indexing of information resources. As the project progressed it became clear that there was also a requirement for it to act as a general reference source about places and features in the UK and Ireland. There was also particular interest in the idea of it acting as an on-line place name authority server. Demand to use it exists and a recommendation was made to the JISC for the establishment of such a service, possibly jointly funded with other interested parties.
The Geo-data Browser project was a 10-month (1st August 2000 - 31st May 2001) collaborative project between EDINA, and the History Data Service (HDS), based at the Data Archive. The project was funded by the JISC to investigate the demand for and the issues surrounding the establishment of a Z39.50 compliant resource discovery tool for geo-spatial data for UK academia. At the request of the JISC, it also considered the requirements for a Geo-data Portal.
The project was essentially a feasibility study during which the various options for implementing a portal and browser were explored, and technical and organisational issues investigated. The project was closely tied to a national initiative, the National Geographic Data Framework (NGDF). The deliverables were a series of reports encompassing user requirements, a metadata standard, service definition, architecture and recommendations on appropriate searching aids including controlled vocabularies.
The project found that there was real demand for such as a service and would provide a significant productivity gain for users in terms of finding geo-spatial data and related resources. Critical to the success of such a service would be the provision of metadata by data producers/custodians. This was recognised to be a major barrier and that effort would have to be expended to ensure that this issue was resolved. A number of other issues remained unresolved e.g. geographic extent of the service and so the project recommended to the JISC that a small pilot project be funded to build a Portal demonstrator. [In September 2001 JISC recommended that a second phase development project should go ahead and awarded the project to EDINA and HDS.]
The Digimap Plus Project is funded under the eLib 3a Extension and aims to:
The final year of the project had mixed fortunes. A survey of users' data needs was undertaken and, although providing useful information, the return rate was low. A number of user surveys have been conducted recently and user 'fatigue' at completing questionnaires seems to be prevalent. The evaluation of the aerial photography service, developed as part of the work on 'changing landscape' showed that users wanted access to rural areas as well as cities e.g. North Wales, Northern Scotland and that an alternative source to 'Cities Revealed' data from GeoInformation Group needs to be sought. The demonstrator service providing access to a sample of the OS Historical Map encountered a number of technical challenges and was not released to trial users as a result. Funding for a further project is now being sought.
e-MapScholar, which began in January 2001, aims to develop tools and learning and teaching materials to enhance and support the use of geo-spatial data currently available within tertiary education in learning and teaching, including digital map data available from the EDINA Digimap service. e-MapScholar proposes to enhance the usability and learning potential of spatial data resources, that already exist within the tertiary education sector, by developing three sets of new resources: Teaching Case Studies, Software Tools and Customisable On-line Tutorials and a Virtual Placement. The project is funded by the JISC to form part of the Distributed National Electronic Resource and works closely with other projects funded under the same programme.
After a slow start, the project is now progressing well. The project has recruited all necessary staff and held a Requirements workshop with end-users. Consortium members have also assembled a series of reports that have fed into a Requirements document. A prototype system for managing the content provided by the project has been devised, and the project partners have agreed a structure for the learning materials and devised an XML schema. Case studies into the use of OS digital map data and other data have been commissioned from a number of teaching staff and it is hoped to make these available on the EDINA web site in the new year.
This project was completed at the end of AY 2000/2001. It investigated the use of numeric data in learning and teaching in UK HE and generated good practice guidelines. The final report is available.
EDINA is responsible for two of four projects in the JOIN-UP Programme, a cluster of projects funded under the infrastructure part of the JISC DNER Programme. These four individual projects have been combined with a view to each contributing separate but compatible, and inter-operable, component parts to the four-part DNER structure of Discover/Locate/Request/Access. Thus JOIN-UP addresses the linkage between references found in discovery databases (such as Abstracting and Indexing (A & I) databases and Table of Contents databases) and the services that provide the full-text material (typically journal articles), in printed or electronic form. The three lead partners in the JOIN-UP Programme are EDINA; Docusend (led by King's College, London, in partnership with the LAMDA electronic document delivery service); and the British Library.
Xgrain: The aims of this project are both to provide a fundamental part of the DNER, enabling connectivity of the national Abstracting and Indexing databases; and to contribute to the use of the DNER in learning and teaching, by developing a learning and teaching portal. (See http://edina.ac.uk/projects/joinup/xgrain/)
ZBLSA aims to provide a neutral location broker to be access by portals in the DNER. The feasibility study and prototype are nearly complete, funding is now being sought for further development and implementation of a service. We will work with SwetsBlackwell/NESLI, ingenta and a limited number of other full text providers in the first instance. (See http://edina.ac.uk/projects/joinup/zblsa/)
Engagement with the FE sector to date
Following the announcement that the Further Education Funding Councils had commenced funding the Joint Information Systems Committee (the JISC), EDINA began to undertake familiarisation and liaison work with the FE sector.
We have so far been engaged in the following activities:
Establishment of a base in FE
New EDINA Office
In July 2001, EDINA, opened an office in St Helens College on Merseyside, in the Centre for ICT Developments at the Town Centre Campus. This innovative example of 'outreach' is aimed at helping EDINA understand how to enhance our services for the diversity of need in the post-16 sector. Two members of staff are based there: the Learning and Teaching Projects Co-ordinator and the Learning and Teaching Projects Officer.
As well as its activities in providing both Higher and Further Education programmes, St Helens creates online learning resources for staff development and for use in learning and teaching. St Helens was awarded Accredited Status by the Further Education Funding Council (replaced by the Learning and Skills Council).
The aims are to:
Digimap Trial to FE Colleges
JISC have funded a one year pilot project from July 2001, the objectives being:
Seven FE colleges based throughout Britain, selected to represent the diversity of FE colleges, have been trained, given full access to Digimap and access to support through the EDINA helpdesk. In addition, the colleges have been encouraged to produce teaching materials demonstrating the use of Digimap in FE Education. A full report of the evaluation will be made available to JISC in July 2002.
With FE sector staff
FE staff are taking part in Steering Committees of JISC projects at EDINA, developing learning and teaching materials;
Attendance at the FERL 2000 conference, November 2000;
EDINA staff met with RSC Manager of South East Region on 23 February 2001;
Attendance at BECTa NLN 'Creating the Content' workshop, 19 March 2001;
Attendance at CAT Vendors' Meeting on 6 April 2001 - met new JISC FE Content Co-ordinator;
Attendance at launch of Scottish RSCs and Scottish Advisory Services for Content and Staff Development, 25 April 2001, Perth College EDINA staff had opportunity to discuss work with JISC FE Content Co-ordinator;
Contacts established with Scottish RSC staff to work on development of services and promotional materials for FE;
EDINA staff met RSC Manager, London on 10 May 2001;
EDINA staff are due to present on EDINA services to meetings of ILT Curriculum staff in RSC London arranged seminars in the Summer.
With the JISC
Attendance at JASPER/FE meeting in September 2000;
Discussions, by phone, email and in person, with JISC FE co-ordinators;
Provision of materials on EDINA JISC-funded services for the Netskills workshops "Internet Resources for FE";
Three EDINA members of staff have attended separate Netskills "Internet Resources for FE" workshops in various locations and discussed EDINA services with FE staff. At the most recent, in Edinburgh, EDINAs new Training Officer was given the opportunity to make a short presentation about services.
Attendance at JISC conference in May 2001, "Working in Partnership".
EDINA appointed a member of staff as the new Training Officer who has FE experience and will work with RSC and FE staff to re-design our promotional materials and services for the post-16 sector.
A list is given in Appendix 6.
The Data Library, as a host of EDINA BIOSIS and other life science services, is a partner in E-BioSci, a three-year EU Fifth Framework project led by the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). E-BioSci is an initiative to set up a platform that will provide services relating to access and retrieval of digital information in the life sciences, ranging from bibliographic or factual data to published full text. Its objectives are to explore technologies and protocols that will permit the establishment of a European-based research infrastructure of global significance and, where appropriate, to act in a co-ordinative capacity to achieve these goals. The Data Library role, with BIOME as an associate partner, is to build the UK node for the portal to facilitate cross-searching and to host E-BioSci specific databases. Following project planning activity during 2000/2001 the EU has endorsed the project with a likely start date at the end of 2001. This is also an opportunity to link the DNER with European initiatives: e-BioSci activities have relevance to the Xgrain and ZBLSA work carried out by EDINA under the DNER programme; the JISC Collections Manager is a member of the E-BioSci Governing Body.
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, which was founded some 20 years ago, includes information system specialists, database librarians or administrators, archivists, researchers, programmers and managers. Peter Burnhill is immediate past President, and Alison Bayley is Assistant Treasurer. IASSIST holds an annual conference in the USA or Canada for three years out of four and in Europe in the fourth year. The Data Library hosted the conference in Edinburgh in 1993. The 2001 conference was held in Amsterdam. The 2002 conference will be held in The Roper Center and The Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, USA.
The EDINA Steering Committee is chaired by Derek Law, Librarian and Director of Information Strategy at Strathclyde University. The Committee includes representation from the JISC, MAU, UKOLN, JIBS User group, and Edinburgh University, as well as individual members of the UK academic community.
The EDINA Management Group meets under the chairmanship of Richard Field, Vice Principal, Academic Services & Information Strategy, to consult and advise the Director about the general direction and strategy for EDINA. The University's Librarian and its Director of Computing are also members.
A statement of expenditure for 2000/2001 is given in Appendix 4.
In terms of future services we look forward to the launch of a service for the Index to The Times, 1790-1980, and TRILT, the Television and Radio Index for learning and teaching facility being run as a service for the BUFVC.
In planning for the future, EDINA has a number of challenges and opportunities consistent with its mission and strategic aims.
The first is associated with services in the traditional area of the 'digital library'. For this, EDINA will seek to add to its portfolio of specialist bibliographic datasets, going beyond this to establish its role with respect to services which help users locate, request and access services on the full text of articles. This requires active discussions about the relation between EDINA and NESLI, the National Electronic Site Licensing Initiative.
A second major challenge for EDINA is to expand its research data and geographic data services - 'to put data into the digital library'. This has been a continuing challenge for EDINA and the Data Library, reflecting international concerns on how best to provide researchers with access to research data.
Being based in the Data Library, EDINA has an extensive understanding of the needs and support requirements of users with regard to research data. However, the experience of the Digimap service is that these resources can be made accessible to a much wider constituency, motivating widespread IT literacy as well as the adoption of 'information skills'. A good working relationship has been developed between EDINA/Data Library and a variety of research data providers, and we plan to build on this.
We will continue to pay particular attention to the needs of the Further Education sector and the demands of life-long learning, building on our relationship with LTSN, RSCs and others in the DNER to exploit existing and new resources for learning and teaching. Our efforts continue to address the issue how EDINAs services can enhance its productivity in learning and teaching, and we expect to learn much from the Digimap FE trial. In addition, attention will be paid to relevant content for Further Education, as well as Higher Education. This includes, where appropriate, assisting in the 'rescue' of services resources that have outgrown their current set-up, and bringing them into the DNER. For example, prospect of support from the JISC has been secured to move UPDATE, an index to the UK agricultural press, from the University of Aberystwyth to EDINA.
We shall also continue and intensify work on the DNER infrastructure, in particular with respect to the discovery and location of journal literature. Two projects funded under the DNER programme, Xgrain and ZBLSA are part of the JOIN-UP cluster of DNER infrastructure work, which addresses the linkage between references found in discovery and the services that provide the full-text material (see section 11). It is intended that both projects, while designed to be independent tools, will yield early benefits for EDINA services and their users. An important aspect of the JOIN-UP work is its "Technology Watch" brief, as part of which we will, in conjunction with our partners, set up a number of seminars bringing together expertise in linking technology and interoperability issues. This will help us keep abreast, assess and make appropriate use of new developments, such as OpenURL and SFX, the Open Archives Initiative and the newly emerging Z39.50 New Generation (ZNG). We will draw on and seek to expand our relationship with representatives from the DOI Foundation and the Cross-Ref Initiative. Our membership and role in the Association of Subscription Agents and Intermediaries (ASA) will continue to assist us in this process.
A further challenge, and opportunity, is that posed by the emergence and importance of sub-UK and regional focuses of activity. The development of most relevance to EDINA is clearly that of the Scottish Parliament, following on that of the creation and policy operation of SHEFC. EDINA is increasingly being approached to act as the Scottish Datacentre, as it has the requisite range of resources and experience in providing online data services, and has some guarantee of continued existence. This is reflected, for example in further development plans for the Statistical Accounts of Scotland service and for SALSER.
Winning the contract to be the Geographic Data Unit for the ESRC/JISC 2001 Census Programme, gives us the opportunity to re-examine the nature of the service we should be offering. To that end, during the early part of the year a review of the service will be conducted. Users and other Census data units will be contacted as part of the consultation process. Work will continue on the migration of UKBORDERS to Laser-Scan GIS. New features will be added to the service including, for users registered for both Digimap and UKBORDERS, the ability to view boundaries overlaid on OS maps. The interface will be enhanced with the facility to both select and confirm data selection via a map-based interface. Other data, e.g. Experian postcode sector boundary data, will be added during the year.
Development of Digimap will continue with the release of Digimap Carto, a Gazetteer service and the enhancement of the data downloader service. The task of data management has proved to be a large undertaking than expected, both in terms of staff time and data storage. OS changing the specification of its data products exacerbates the problem. We would hope that having now gone through the cycle twice, next year the process should be more normal. During November we will be migrating the databases underlying EDINA Digimap to Laser-Scan Gothic v.4 architecture. Improvements to service performance are expected as a result.
JISC have funded EDINA to undertake a 9 month project to investigate the impact of Ordnance Surveys new product, Mastermap. OS MasterMap is designed to, among other things, replace OS largest-scale product Land-Line. The data is designed for use as an intelligent digital map within GIS and database systems and provides a seamless representation of the whole of Great Britain. In OS MasterMap data there is a closer correspondence between data features and discrete real-world objects than has been the case in previous generations of Ordnance Survey products. MasterMap will bring significant benefits to users but will create challenges for EDINA with regard to its delivery and the support of users.
Further work will be undertaken on interoperability between EDINA geo-services and other JISC data services. We have made a request to JISC to use part of the small scale development money for this.
During the coming year, the two DNER development projects, Geo-data Portal and Geo-Crosswalk will begin. We anticipate that both projects will have a significant affect on how geo-data is thought about within both the DNER and the Higher and Further Education Communities and will raise the profile of the Tertiary education sector within the UK Geographic Information Community.
EDINA is part of a consortium project funded under the New Opportunities Funds 50 million creation of learning materials programme. This offers a landscape of information complementing related programmes in other sectors including central Government's UKOnline portal, the National Electronic Library for Health, higher and further education's Distributed National Electronic Resource, and learning materials provided through the media and commerce. The 'Sense of Place - National' consortium represents 22 projects and is led by the British Library. EDINA will be hosting the service developed under the 'A Vision of Britain through Time' project which aims to provide core information for the local history of everywhere in Great Britain.
Also of note is that the existing hardware used to support EDINA's services was first in service in July 1996. Replacement of the hardware deployed to support the EDINA Services is proposed during the Academic Year 2002/2003.
In general, the overriding challenge for EDINA will remain that of collaborative interworking with our partners to deliver cost-effective and salient services to our principal 'market': staff and students in UK Higher and Further Education. This includes working with other datacentres, with the RDN faculty hubs and, most notably, with other academic support staff.
Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Art Abstracts
Bibliographic references and abstracts of articles from 280 periodicals - journals, yearbooks and museum bulletins - published in English and other major languages, from 1984 to the present. Art Abstracts is published by H.W. Wilson.
Art Index Retrospective
Index of art reproductions and helps researchers study the body of work of an artist or track down reproductions. Provides searchable indexing spanning 55 years of art journalism from 420 noted publications around the globe, reflecting coverage provided from 1929 to 1984. Art Index Retrospective is published by H.W. Wilson.
EconLit
Indexes and abstracts more than 550 international economic journals. Source material includes journal articles, essays, research papers, books, dissertations, book reviews, and working papers. Contains more than 350,000 records and covers subjects from accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labour, marketing, demographics, modelling, economic theory, planning, and more. Produced by the American Economic Association.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
Assists both generalists and specialists in keeping abreast of cutting-edge developments in disciplines concerned with the nature and use of language. Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics, various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts comes from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.
MLA International Bibliography
Indexes critical scholarship on literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Coverage includes journal articles, series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, proceedings and other materials. Includes all records indexed from 1963 to the present, approximately 1,400,000 records, and is updated ten times a year. Produced by the Modern Language Association of America.
PAIS International
Bibliographic index with abstracts covering the full range of political, social, and public policy issues. Topics covered include economic, political, and social issues, business, finance, law, international trade and relations, public administration, government, political science, and any topics that are or might become the subject of legislation. Covers selected journal articles, books, statistics, yearbooks, directories, conference proceedings, pamphlets, reports, government documents, and microfiche. Produced by the Public Affairs Information Services, Inc.
Palmer's Index to The Times
The only index to articles in the Times for every issue from October 1790 to December 1905 (After which the indexing of the Times was continued as The Official Index of the Times). Palmers is published by Chadwyck-Healey.
Social Services Abstracts
Bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. From Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.
Sociological Abstracts
Access to the research literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioural sciences. Covers articles relevant to sociology and related disciplines such as anthropology, economics, education, health and medicine, social psychology, etc. From Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.
Statistical Accounts of Scotland
Online version of the two accounts of all Scottish parishes conducted in the 1790s and 1830s and published as the First and New Statistical Accounts of Scotland. Together they provide an invaluable record of all 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.
Agriculture, Environment & Life Sciences
AGDEX
Extensive database of over 85,000 article titles or abstracts from the agricultural press, compiled since 1971 by the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC).
BIOSIS
Previews Electronic version of Biological Abstracts (BA), the largest printed reference publication for life sciences information; and Biological Abstracts/RRM (Reports, Reviews, Meetings), the companion printed reference to books, meetings and research reviews. BIOSIS Previews database covers data from 1985 onwards.
CAB Abstracts
Bibliographic database compiled by CAB International. Covers the significant research and development literature in the fields of agriculture, forestry, aspects of human health, human nutrition, animal health and the management and conservation of natural resources.
Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database
Access to abstracts and references to the literature covering air, land, water, and noise pollution as well as bacteriology, ecology, toxicology, risk assessment, environmental engineering, environmental biotechnology, waste management, and water resources. ESPMD is published by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.
Engineering, Informatics & Physical Sciences
Ei Compendex and Ei Page One
Most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering information database in the world, with over 3 million summaries of journal articles and conference proceedings, and 220,000 new additions every year. Ei Page One gives the user access to tables of contents in world engineering literature. Produced by Engineering Information Inc. (Ei).
Inspec
Regarded as the premier database for access to the worlds 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.
General Reference
Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory
Includes annuals, continuations and conference proceedings, deriving input data from over 80,000 U.S. and foreign serials publishers. Approximately 47,000 discontinued titles from 1974 onward are included. Gives full buying and ordering information on the major output of international serials publishing. Complete bibliographic citations, with buying and ordering information, subject information, and Dewey Decimal Classification Number for all currently available issues are provided.
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.
Digimap
Delivers Ordnance Survey Map Data to UK Higher Education. 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 UKBORDERS UK Boundary Outline and Reference Database for Education and Research Study, offers access to database of UK digitised boundaries. Includes coverages relating to population census, administrative, electoral and postal areas. 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.
UKBORDERS™
UK Boundary Outline and Reference Database for Education and Research Study, offers access to database of UK digitised boundaries. Includes coverages relating to population census, administrative, electoral and postal areas. 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.
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| Arts Institute, Bournemouth | X | |||||||
| Aston University | X | X | X | |||||
| Bath Spa University College | X | X | ||||||
| Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) | X | X | X | |||||
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| Bolton Institute of Higher Education | X | X | ||||||
| Bournemouth University | X | X | ||||||
| Bradford and Ilkley Community College | X | X | ||||||
| British Geological Survey | X | |||||||
| Brunel University | X | X | X | |||||
| Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College | X | |||||||
| Cambridge University | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| Canterbury Christ Church University College | X | X | X | X | ||||
| Cardiff University | X | X | X | X | X | |||
| Central Science Laboratory | X | X | ||||||
| Centre for Ecology and Hydrology | X | |||||||
| CES Ltd | X | |||||||
| Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School | X | |||||||
| Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education | X | X | ||||||
| Chester College of Higher Education | X | X | ||||||
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| Coventry University | X | X | ||||||
| Cranfield University | X | X | ||||||
| Cumbria College of Art and Design | X | |||||||
| De Montfort University | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||
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| Dublin Institute of Technology | X | X | X | |||||
| Dundee University | X | |||||||
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| Edinburgh College of Art | X | X | X | |||||
| Falmouth College of Arts | X | X | ||||||
| Friends of the Earth | X | |||||||
| Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology | X | X | ||||||
| Glasgow Caledonian University | X | X |
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| Heriot-Watt University | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Imperial Cancer Research Fund | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Imperial College | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Institute of Cancer Research | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Institute of Education | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Keele University | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Kent Institute of Art and Design | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Kings College London | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Lancaster University | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Leeds College of Art and Design | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Liverpool John Moores University | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
| London Guildhall University | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| London Research Center | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| London School of Economics & Political Science | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loughborough University | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Macaulay Land Use Research Institute | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manchester Metropolitan University | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||
| Middlesex University Higher Education Corporation | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Napier University | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||
| National Foundation for Educational Research | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| National University of Ireland, Galway | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Natural Environment Research Council | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Norwich School of Art and Design | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nottingham Trent University | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||
| Oxford Brookes University | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Queen Mary & Westfield College | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Queens University Belfast | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Robert Gordon University | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| School of Oriental and African Studies | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Scottish Agricultural College - Auchincruive | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Scottish Funding Council for Further and Higher Education | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sheffield Hallam University | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Somerset College of Arts and Technology | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Southampton Institute | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Southbank University | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Staffordshire University | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Suffolk College | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Surrey Institute of Art and Design | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| The London Institute | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Open University | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Trinity College, Dublin | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| UMIST | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
| United Medical & Dental Schools of Guy's & St Thomas's Hospitals | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| University College, Chichester | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| University College, Cork | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| University College London | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||
| University College Worcester | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Aberdeen | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Abertay Dundee | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Bath | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Birmingham | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Bradford | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Brighton | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||
| University of Bristol | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Central England | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Central Lancashire | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Durham | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
| University of East Anglia | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| University of East London | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Edinburgh | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||
| Palmer's | BIOSIS | UKBORDERS | Art Abstracts | Ei Compendex | Inspec | Digimap | Art Index | |||||||||||||||||
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| University of Exeter | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Glamorgan | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Glasgow | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||
| University of Greenwich | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Hertfordshire | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Huddersfield | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| University of Leeds | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||
| University of Leicester | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||
| University of Limerick | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Lincolnshire and Humberside | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Liverpool | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||
| University of Luton | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Manchester | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||
| University of Newcastle | X | X | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||
| University of North London | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Northumbria at Newcastle | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Nottingham | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Oxford | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Paisley | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Plymouth | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Portsmouth | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Reading | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Salford | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| University of Southampton | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||
| University of Stirling | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Strathclyde | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Sunderland | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Surrey | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Surrey, Roehampton | X | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Sussex | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Teesside | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| University of the West of England | X | X | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||
| University of Ulster | X | X | X | X | X | |||||||||||||||||||
| University of Wales, Aberystwyth | X | X | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Palmer's | BIOSIS | UKBORDERS | Art Abstracts | Ei Compendex | Inspec | Digimap | Art Index | |
| University of Wales, Bangor | X | X | X | |||||
| University of Wales, College of Medicine | X | |||||||
| University of Wales, Institute of Cardiff | X | X | ||||||
| University of Wales, Newport | X | X | X | |||||
| University of Wales, Swansea | X | X | ||||||
| University of Warwick | X | X | X | |||||
| University of Westminster | X | X | ||||||
| University of Wolverhampton | X | X | X | |||||
| University of York | X | X | ||||||
| Wakefield College | X | |||||||
| Writtle Agricultural School | X |
Travel & Subsistence - 38,376
Maintenance - 55,573
Phone, postage and stationery - 2,176
Publicity Material (including documentation) - 19,300
Staff Training - 5,854
Membership Fees - 689
Conferences (outreach) - 3,984
Total - 125,952
Staff costs - 598,302
Total Expenditure - 724,254
Peter Burnhill - Director
Alison Bayley (PT) - Deputy Director
Ingrid Earp - Administrator
Maureen Edwards - Administrative Assistant
Robin Rice - Data Librarian
Stuart Macdonald (PT) - Data Library Assistant
Alan Ferguson - Manager & Software Engineer
Gavin Inglis - Software Engineer
John Murison - Manager & Software Engineer (until 3/01)
Tim Stickland - Software Engineer
Ben Soares - Software Engineer
Morag Macgregor - Software Engineer
Jonathan Hunter - Software Engineer
Ian Stuart - Software Engineer (from 10/00)
David Medyckyj-Scott - Manager & Project Leader
Andrew Corbett - Software Engineer
Gordon Anderson - Software Engineer
Chris Higgins - Software Engineer
John Macdonald - Software Engineer (from 10/00)
Tom Waugh - Software Engineer (until 5/01)
Anup Pradhan - Software Engineer
Alistair Towers - Project Officer
Tim Urwin - Project Officer
Barbara Morris (PT) - Project Officer
Helen Chisholm (PT) - Manager (from 3/01)
Margarete Tubby-Hille - Deputy and Content Development
Barbara Morris (PT) - Co-ordinator
Helen McVey - Computing Assistant
Paula Cuccurullo - Computing Assistant
Stuart Macdonald (PT) - Computing Assistant
Moira Massey - Learning and Teaching Project Co-ordinator
Andrew Bevan - Promotions
Peigi MacKillop - Training Officer (from 2/01)
Claudia Gröpl - Events Co-ordinator
Hugh Buchanan - Support Officer (until 7/01)
Emma Sutton - Support Officer
Duncan Elder - Support Officer (from 11/00 to 4/01)
Paul Milne - Documentation Officer
September 2000
British Cartographic Society Conference, Oxford
GIS 2000 Exhibition, London
ALT-C Conference, Manchester
Human Factors 2000 Symposium, Loughborough
Association of Survey Computing Conference, London
Regard Conference 2000, Bristol
DRH Conference, Sheffield
October 2000
UKSG Conference, London
November 2000
EDINA-LTSN Awareness Day, Edinburgh
LTSN Engineering Scottish Launch, Glasgow
Information for Scotland, Edinburgh
Art Librarians Society Exhibition, London
AGI Scotland Conference, Glasgow
FERL Conference, Stratford
Statistics Users Conference, London
December 2000
Arts and Humanities Online, London
Online 2000, London
January 2001
Institute of British Geographers/RGS Conference, Plymouth
Arts and Humanities Online, Bristol
February 2001
Arts and Humanities Online, Edinburgh
Ordnance Survey Educational Conference, Glasgow
OS University Conference, Coventry
ASA Conference, London
March 2001
Arts and Humanities Online, Manchester
April 2001
UKSG, Edinburgh
JISC RSC Launch, Perth
GISRUK Conference, Glamorgan
CADE Conference, Glasgow
British Sociological Association Conference, Manchester
BEST LTSN Conference, Windermere
May 2001
Arts and Humanities Online, Belfast
Arts and Humanities Online, Dublin
IASSIST Conference, Amsterdam
JISC Conference, London
GeoInformation Group, Edinburgh
JISC 'Working in Partnership', London
June 2001
Digital Earth Conference, New Brunswick, Canada
Library and Information Show, Birmingham
Geo Conference, Imperial War Museum, London
Scottish Social Attitudes Conference, Edinburgh
July 2001
ALLCU, Elmwood College
Institute of Learning and Teaching Conference, York
Digital Resources for the Humanities 2001, London
ICCC/IFIP 5th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Canterbury
September 2000
Launch event for LTSN Centre for Geographical, Earth and Environmental Sciences, London
JASPER FE/RSC day, London
Institutional web managers workshop, Bath
Scottish EARL development and consultancy day, Glasgow
Census Output Working Group meeting, London
October 2000
AGI Council meeting, London
Workshop for gazetteer galactica, Essex
JISCmail training, Edinburgh
Knowledge management seminar, Edinburgh
FE JISC service awareness workshop, Newcastle
Scottish Research Association meeting, Edinburgh
Scottish Census Advisory Group meeting, Edinburgh
November 2000
Interoperability at the Coalface, UKOLN Management Briefing, London
JIBS User Group AGM, London
JISC Geo Data Working Group meeting, London
Association of Geographical Information Awards, London
Scottish Visual Arts Group meeting, Edinburgh
Data Archive - new developments meeting, London
'Built environment education: the way forward' seminar, London
JISC DNER learning and teaching and infrastructure meeting, Manchester
eLib synthesis meeting, London
Scottish Placenames Database day, Edinburgh
December 2000
AGI Council Meeting, London
'Successful implementation of a learning environment', seminar, Durham
'Internet resources for FE: JISC services', seminar, Glasgow
Digimap Steering Committee, Edinburgh
Scottish Census Advisory Group meeting, Edinburgh
January 2001
JASPER/DNER Seminar, London
Land Value Information Unit launch, Paisley
Scottish Census Advisory Group meeting, Edinburgh
February 2001
Statistical Account Joint Board Meeting, Edinburgh
BUFVC Course, Locating Moving Images Archives, London
Archivists meeting, London
JISC Project management training, London
UKOLN hybrid libraries workshop, Edinburgh
March 2001
ANGEL Project Board Meeting, Edinburgh
AGI Council meeting, London
BIOME meeting, London
SUN/Access seminar, Edinburgh
BECTa NLN Crafting the Content FE workshop, Widnes
Census advisory meeting, Manchester
April 2001
MODELS workshop on Authorisation, Warwick
Digimap Steering Committee, Edinburgh
FE learning materials demo, London
Scottish Digital National Imagery Seminar, Edinburgh
Council of Association for Geographical Information, London
JIBS meeting on linking, Oxford
TRILT Steering Committee meeting, London
EEVL meeting, Edinburgh
JISC/BECTa meeting for CAT/NLN suppliers, London
ASSIGN meeting at ASLIB, London
May 2001
Tourist Board meeting, Edinburgh
ANGEL Project Board Meeting, Edinburgh
JISC DNER meeting of PIG, London
OS DNF workshop, London
RDN Portal meeting, Edinburgh
Information Warfare, Edinburgh
JISC Awareness Day - disability and technology, London
ISSN meeting, Paris
ESRC/JISC Census 2001 workshop, Leeds
June 2001
RSLP Project Dissemination Event, London
Introduction to GIS Course, Newcastle
QMC JISC seminar, London
Institutional Web Management workshop, Belfast
How to design an eye-catching newsletter, seminar, Edinburgh
E-Book Seminar, Edinburgh
British Household Panel Survey workshop, Stirling
MIMAS Open Forum, Manchester
IMS workshop, Manchester
Join Up steering group meeting, London
DNER programme meeting, London
PAF (Postal Address File) User Group AGM, London
Scottish Census Advisory Group meeting, Edinburgh
July 2001
JISC Assist Meeting for Resource Guide Providers, London
September 2000
EDINA engineering workshops with EEVL, Edinburgh (6 attendees)
EDINA engineering workshops with EEVL, Nottingham (10 attendees)
EDINA engineering workshops with EEVL, London (14 attendees)
October 2000
CASA Workshop, Edinburgh
November 2000
Digimap training module 1, Middlesex (12 attendees)
Teaching PERL course, Edinburgh
December 2000
Digimap training module 2, Middlesex (11 attendees)
January 2001
Digimap training module 1, Edinburgh (16 attendees)
Digimap training module 2, Edinburgh (8 attendees)
Statistical Account Launch, Edinburgh
February 2001
EDINA demo in LRC, Edinburgh
Mapping Census Data, Edinburgh
April 2001
EDINA Geo Data Forum, Newcastle
June 2001
FE Digimap Induction Day, Manchester (13 attendees)
Digimap training module 2, Manchester (17 attendees)
Digimap training module 4, Manchester (8 attendees)
Census Mapping course, Glamorgan
July 2001
Digimap training module 3, Portsmouth (8 attendees)