APPENDIX 1: EDINA Services and Project Activity

Services

Reading & Reference

Article References

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.

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. The current contributing indexers are Coleg Sir Gar, Bicton, Harper Adams, Pershore, Myerscough and Royal Agricultural Colleges.

Journal Catalogues

SUNCAT

The 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. SUNCAT holds information on the sriels held in 86 of the largest research and university libraries in the UK.

SALSER

The union catalogue of serials holdings for Scottish universities, the municipal research libraries of Edinburgh and Glasgow, numerous smaller Scottish research libraries and the National Library of Scotland. Through SALSER, users can not only discover which serials are held where; they can also connect to the participating libraries' catalogues for more detailed holdings information.

E-books

Statistical Accounts of Scotland

The online version of the full text of two complete surveys 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.

Deposit Academic Papers

OpenDepot.org

An international facility to deposit peer-reviewed papers, articles, and book chapters (e-prints).

Repositories and Journal Preservation

UK LOCKSS Alliance

An international initiative to ensure libraries remain central to the process of scholarly information management. The UK LOCKSS Alliance is a cooperative movement of UK academic libraries that are committed to identify, negotiate, and build local archives of material that librarians and academic scholars deem significant.

CLOCKSS

An international preservation scheme for scholarly publications based on a distributed long term archive network of publishers’ current and past content. The content is stored in secure LOCKSS-managed storage under the stewardship of globally distributed research and university libraries.

The Keepers Registry

An online record of global stewardship by organisations which have taken responsibility for ensuring long-tern continuity of access to international scholarship. The service contains a record of which journal titles each is preserving, together with a statement of the extent of the content that is held.

OA Repository Junction

The junction assists Open Access deposit into and interoperability between, existing repository services. The discovery tool allows institutions or authors to be matched to appropriate repositories.

Multimedia & Education

Film, Images & Sound

JISC MediaHub

Part of the new JISC e-Collections service which provides a single point of access to three major multimedia archives licensed by JISC Collections, enabling cross-searching and exploration of over 500,000 items of TV news, documentary films, still images and classical music. JISC MediaHub also enables users to search and link out to external third party media collections.

NewsFilm Online

A collection of some 3,000 hours of downloadable television news, cinema newsreels and associated materials, selected from the ITN/Reuters archives including several key cinema newsreels. The content depicts selected events from the last 100 years through contemporaneous media reports and allows users to download and manipulate news footage for their learning, teaching and research.

Maps & Data

Geo-data Portal

GoGeo

Enables users to discover geospatial information and services for education and research. GoGeo enables users to find data, geospatial services and resources, learn about geospatial metadata and use the GeoDoc tool to create and publish standards-compliant geospatial metadata.

Maps & Datasets

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 geographical information systems or computer aided design, or as maps generated by Digimap online. Allows users to view, annotate 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 geographical information systems 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

Offers historic Ordnance Survey maps of Great Britain to UK HE and FE. The maps have been generated by Landmark Information Group. The collection includes maps at a range of scales published between 1843 and 1996. From Historic Digimap it is possible to print maps and download them as georeferenced images for use in geographical information systems or image processing software. The facility also allows users to view up to four maps simultaneously thereby showing changes 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

Marine Digimap

Provides marine and coastal zone mapping and data products from SeaZone Solutions Ltd. Users can browse, view and print online marine maps and download thematic marine geographical information 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. It includes data relating to population census, administrative, electoral and postal areas. The web-based interface provides digitised boundary datasets in many GIS formats for users to download and also hosts historical boundary data relating to the 19th and 20th centuries and contemporary and historical postcode directories.

Agricultural Census Data

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.

Sharing and Managing Data

ShareGeo Open

A spatial data repository that promotes data sharing, between creators and users of spatial data. It is the place where researchers, students and lecturers at UK HEFE institutions can deposit data for anyone to download and use.

Research Data MANTRA

On-line learning materials which reflect best practice in research data management, available through an open for re-using, rebranding, repurposing.

Middleware and Infrastructure Services

UK federation

The UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research (UK federation) facilitates federated access management in the UK and is operated by EDINA and JISC Collections.

OpenURL Router

Designed to help 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.

Digimap OpenStream

A Web Map Service (WMS) offering Ordnance Survey OpenData products via an application programming interface (API).

Unlock

Provides a facility to extract and locate place-names found in text documents and metadata. It also provides a search for place-names, locations and shapes across different sources of geographic information.

EDINA Developer Corner

The purpose of this website is to share publicly the code and documentation from EDINA technical teams. Information from one service and one project team is available.

Project Activity

Geo-spatial Projects

AddressingHistory

An online tool to combine data from digitised historical Scottish Post Office Directories with contemporaneous historical maps.

Geospatial Engagement and Community Outreach (GECO)

The overarching purpose of GECO is to foster communities of users of geospatial resources (data, services, support). Geospatial, taken in its broadest sense underpins a vast array of academic endeavour - geography represents a fundamental organising axis for information.

Scottish Spatial Data Infrastructure

EDINA has formed a partnership with the Scottish Government to develop a pilot discovery metadata service as a key component of a Scottish Spatial Data Infrastructure.

Spatio-Temporal Energy Efficiency Visualisation (STEEV)

Building a stakeholder engagement tool visualising historic, current and future energy efficiency estimates at the level of individual buildings.

Usability Service Enhancements to Digimap

In order to inform improvements to the Digimap Data Download facility, the USeD project conducted user focused research to develop stereotypical “Personas” across the user spectrum from novice to expert. The “Personas” steered the re-design of the interface.

Interoperable Geographic Information for Biosphere Study

The IGIBS project is building on prior work demonstrating how Shibboleth (the open source software that underpins the UK Access Management Federation) can be used to provide an organisational model for Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI).

GoGeo as Linked Data (GOLD)

The work exposes the GoGeo Catalogue and the Scottish Government Spatial Discovery Portal CSW content as a Linked Data triple store.

Linked Data Focus

An initiative to produce Linked Open Data output from several different EDINA projects and services.

Geo-Tagging of Resources

Development of a web service which will extract metadata from and embed new metadata in multimedia content with a particular focus on geo-tagging of resources.

CartoGrammar

Development of an open wen service and supporting web site galleria and tools that will allow social scientists to create, share and reuse custom, bespoke cartograms.

PhoneBooth

This is a collaborative project with the London School of Economics (LSE) Digital Library to build a smartphone app for delivery of the Charles Booth Online Archive held by the LSE.

Trading Consequences

A multi institutional, international collaboration between environmental historians in Canada and computer scientists in the UK to use text mining software to explore thousands of pages of historical documents related to trade in the British Empire during the 19th century.

Bibliographic Service Projects

Digital Monograph Technical Landscape Study

A six-month landscape study looking at the issues surrounding the adoption of e-book reader technology to assist with the publishing of scholarly literature, in particular monographs.

Open Access Repository Junction

Developing the Repository Junction from its current simple form contained within the OpenDepot.org, into a stand-alone broker mechanism which can be easily adopted and integrated by services or projects run by other institutions or organisations.

SUNCAT: exploring open metadata

This study will seek to determine what must be done to extend access to the catalogue, including holdings' information.

Using OpenURL Activity Data

This work will take forward the recommendations of the Shared OpenURL Data Infrastructure Investigation to further explore the value and viability of releasing OpenURL activity data for use by third parties as a means of supporting development of innovative functionality that serves the UK HE community.

PECAN - Pilot for Ensuring Continuity of Access via NESLi2 - Phase 2

Following on from Phase 1 of PECAN, the first step towards developing a potential service for use by HEIs and publishers alike will be taken by implementing the registry software needed to store, manage and access the entitlement information in a prototype.

PEPRS - Piloting An E-Journals Preservation Registry Service

Work in collaboration with ISSN International Centre to pilot to scope, build and test a pilot e-journals preservation registry service (PEPRS) that will provide users with information about which electronic journals have arrangements in place for digital preservation so that journal articles can be accessed over the long term.

Will’s World: Walking through Shakespeare

This project will develop an aggregation of online sources leading to digital resources relating to the life, times and work of William Shakespeare. A registry of open APIs and related content will be exposed to developers who will in turn create new and imaginative applications with the data and demonstrate the value of aggregated metadata.

Multimedia Projects

Tobar an Dualchais

This commissioned work involved the digitisation of thousands of hours of archive recordings from BBC Scotland, the National Trust for Scotland and the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh. EDINA developed and hosts the Tobar an Dualchais website.

Mobile Services Projects

EDINA developed a range of clients for IPhone and Android handsets, combining our existing services, Digimap Collections, SUNCAT and JISC MediaHub with the opportunities afforded by internet equipped GPS enabled smartphones.

Infrastructure Projects

EDINA technical support for the UK Federation

EDINA is providing technical support for the operation of the UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research.

SDSS Expert Group in Identity Management

Provides advice and guidance to the JISC on identity and access management

Data Library Projects

Research Data MANTRA

The development of online learning materials which reflect best practice in research data management grounded in three disciplinary contexts: social science, clinical psychology, and geoscience.