December 2006: Volume 11.4
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In this Issue:
- Changes at Jorum
- Significant improvements to report as Jorum reaches the end of its first successful year.
- Geology Digimap launch
- News about the launch of Geology Digimap in January 2007. An indispensable tool for geologists.
- MasterMap Early Adopters Programme
- EDINA is about to commence on an Early Adopters Programme for the new OS MasterMap data, which will replace Land-Line.Plus data.
- VSM portal demonstrator project commences
- JISC gives EDINA the go-ahead to lead a project to build a demonstrator portal for accessing moving and still image collections.
- SEE-GEO and GEESE
- Two new JISC funded projects to link together work undertaken by the Grid, Shibboleth and Geographic Information communities.
- EDINA helps save sounds of Scotland
- An ambitious project to safeguard and make available the voices and knowledge of the Gaelic and Scots oral traditions.
- Gaining access to web-based services: The UK Federation
- How to gain access to services via the UK Federation.
- SUNCAT workshops presentations online
- Slides from the workshops to introduce SUNCAT to librarians around the country are now available online.
- DCC workshop: Maintaining long-term access to geo-spatial data
- The UK Digital Curation Centre (DCC) held a one-day workshop on maintaining long-term access to geospatial data.
- Land Life Leisure open to the public
- Land Life Leisure has now been extended to a consortium of public libraries in West Wales.
- New Intute tutorial
- A new edition of the Internet for Social Statistics online tutorial has been released in the Intute: Virtual Training Suite.
- EDINA is moving house...
- Stop Press!
- Forthcoming Events
- Upcoming conferences and exhibitions held next year.
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Editor: Paul Milne