JISC GECO: events summary

The JISC GECO project has been busy in October and November supporting events throughout the UK.

The project is supporting the engagement and community outreach for the 12 projects funded under the JISC Geo strand and, as the projects come to the end of their funding period, there has been a flurry of events to share experience, to launch the tools developed, and to embed geospatial work in the work of the wider community.

As the projects share their final ‘product posts’, summarising achievements to date, and prepare for a large Show & Tell event in London on 28 November, it seems timely to provide an update of recent events on the GECO blog.

Two of these events were organised by projects based here at EDINA:

The STEEV Green Energy Workshop, held at the Edinburgh Centre on Climate Change, saw individuals from across sustainability, green energy, architecture and thermal imaging areas (including representatives from the academic, public and private sectors) meet, share research and practice, and to network. The STEEV team were also able to demonstrate the innovative spatial temporal visualisation tool that has been developed here at EDINA. The tool has been created to enable analysis of historical data and future models of energy efficiency data for the Neath Port Talbot area of South Wales which has been generated by researchers at the Welsh School of Architecture at the University of Cardiff, our partners in the STEEV project.

The Collaborative by Nature event was co-organised by the EDINA project IGIBS and the Bristol University-based NatureLocator projects and saw researchers from across the Welsh environment meet at the Welsh Government offices in Cardiff to discuss issues around interoperability of research data. IGIBS is a joint project between EDINA, the University of Aberystwyth and the Welsh Government and all three parties were able to present their achievements around understanding and creating interoperable and INSPIRE-compliant metadata as a result of the project.

All events have been live-blogged and photographed with most also captured as audio recordings. You can access all of these materials via the events page on the JISC GECO website.