December 2004: Volume 9.4
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In this Issue:
- Digimap opens a window to the past
- After five years of delivering contemporary Ordnance Survey (OS) maps
and mapping data to tertiary education, EDINA Digimap will soon offer access
to historical maps of Great Britain, from 1843 onwards.
- GetRef - now available for institutional trial
- Now available for trial, GetRef is a cross–searching
tool developed at EDINA, for finding bibliographic references contained in
Abstract and Indexing (A&I) services.
- Support for IP-enabled access
- An institution can now request that access to the Education Media OnLine
(EMOL) and Education Image Gallery (EIG) services be enabled through IP checking.
EDINA is to examine feasibility of extending IP enabled access to other services.
- SUNCAT: launch of pilot service
- SUNCAT, the national union catalogue of serials for the UK research
community, will be launched as a pilot service in January 2005. SUNCAT includes
over twenty of the largest research libraries and provides means both of locating
serials in UK research libraries, and of upgrading local catalogues.
- The Feds are coming: developments in access
control
- The JISC has chosen the technology for access management to replace
EduServ Athens currently used to log into JISC-sponsored services, with a view
to its launch into service in 2006.
- Working together on spatial service interoperability
- JISC has recently funded a six-month project to develop a set of simple
applications that demonstrate how interoperability might benefit research and
teaching. Using spatial data, these applications will show how it is possible
to access, combine and view maps and spatial data which are held in databases
that are geographically distributed.
- Downloading map data just got easier!
- The Digimap Download facility within the EDINA Digimap service, the
interface which allows users to select and download portions of Ordnance Survey
map data products, is undergoing a face-lift.
- UKBORDERS: Out with the old, in with the new
- With the release of its direct replacement, the Boundary Data Selector,
in August 2004, it was time for the hard working and original UKBORDERS interface
to retire to the EDINA archive.
- Launch of the Digital Curation Centre
- Digital preservation and e-Science experts from around the UK and beyond
gathered at the National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh on 5 November to celebrate
the launch of the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) – a new centre of expertise in data curation and digital preservation funded by
JISC and the e-Science Core Programme.
- Forthcoming Events
- EDINA training events, times and venues
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