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November 2005: Volume 10, Issue 3
EDINA > News > Newsline > Newsline 10.3 > New improved Go-Geo!
New improved Go-Geo!
A new version of Go-Geo!, the UK academic spatial data portal operated and maintained by EDINA, was launched on 1 September 2005 at the Royal Geographic Society - Institute of British Geographers Conference in London.
Primarily a data discovery tool, Go-Geo! searches metadata catalogues across the UK. The new Metadata Editor tool allows individuals to create and edit their own metadata to describe spatial data they have collected or which they curate.
Go-Geo! also offers links to other GI-related quality controlled resources, and aims to support the full research project life cycle.
Use of Go-Geo! portal has been steadily increasing, due in part to the large number of web sites in the UK and abroad now pointing at Go-Geo! The number of resources listed is also growing, with almost daily input from across the academic community.
Go-Geo! is a key component of the UK academic Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), is financially supported by JISC, and can be accessed free of charge.
New features in Go-Geo
- My Go-Geo! is a special feature for staff and students in UK further and higher education institutions (Athens login is required). It allows personal information and preferences to be stored and access to features such as the Go-Geo! Metadata Creator, alert registrations and the forthcoming Enquiry Organiser. In the future it will also allow access to additional resources and data sets.
- The Go-Geo! Metadata Creator (linked to from the "Supply Metadata" pages).
- A discussion forum
- The UK Data Archive catalogue metadata node.
- New updated Go-Geo! metadata format (now re-named UK AGMAP: UK Academic Geospatial Metadata Application Profile); this maps to the UK Gemini and ISO 19115 metadata formats. New Guidelines for usage in the help pages.
- Updated information about metadata sources (nodes) used.
- Web Resources sections: "Standards/Formats", and "Research/Learning Materials - Books in Print".
- Improved spatial searching: place name disambiguation interface for the simple and advanced searches and support for postcode searching in the advanced search.
- Updated layouts for search results and record displays, with new "Explain Discovery" option.