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September 2010: Volume 15 Issue 3
ShareGeo, a data sharing repository previously accessible only through EDINA Digimap, is now also available for all to use as ShareGeo Open. The website went live and public on 1 September 2010.
ShareGeo Open, funded by JISC, is a spatial data repository that promotes data sharing between creators and users of spatial data. Researchers, students and lecturers at UK HE and FE institutions creating geospatial data can deposit their research and operational data there for anyone to download and use.
In Spring 2010 the UK government made a significant number of datasets freely available to the general public. This included many core datasets held by the Office of National Statistics, Central Government and Ordnance Survey. The availability of national coverage core data licensed under Creative Commons creates a framework to permit the sharing of derived data. ShareGeo Open provides the infrastructure to enable that derived data sharing.
ShareGeo within Digimap continues to provide a place for the sharing and re-use of derived geospatial datasets within the Digimap service under the JISC Collections licensing arrangements.