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Newsline 17.4

COBWEB project enables ‘citizen science’ in UNESCO Biospheres
Developing an infrastructure for environmental reporting using mobile devices.
UKBORDERS to take on new branding
Taking on branding from the UK Data Service Census Support Service.
Cartogrammar
Rolling out a web service to create statistical mapping.
New Digimap case studies
New case studies in the fields of history, geology, palaeontology, landscape architecture, and archaeology.
Tell us what you think: User satisfaction surveys
Take this opportunity to tell us what you think about EDINA services.
Redevelopment of SUNCAT Platform
New interface design and a raft of under-the-bonnet improvements.
PECAN post-cancellation access project final report published
Highlighting the findings and outcomes of the project and recommendations for further activity.
New MANTRA Data Management Training unit published
The seventh unit: Data protection, rights and access.
Knowledge Base+ shared service to help libraries manage e-resources
Addressing challenges of inadequate data and metadata about publications, packages, subscriptions, entitlements, and licences.
Using OpenURL Activity Data: final report and recommender
Highlighting the outputs and outcomes of the project, notably the development of a Recommender that locates an article and suggests related publications using a database of recommendations based on OpenURL activity data.
Updated EDINA reports
New versions of the Community Report and Annual Review are available.
New Staff
Rocío von Jungenfeld and Richard Wincewicz join EDINA.
Forthcoming Events

Newsline 17.3

EDINA web site developments
A fresh design for the EDINA web site with greater prominence for social media.
Aggregated blogs on the EDINA web site
A summary of the new feeds appearing on the EDINA homepage.
JISC MediaHub latest release: search widget; Explore by Place
Recent developments with the multimedia platform.
Geoforum 2012
Summary of the community event in June.
Open Repositories 2012: an international gathering
Report from the July conference in Edinburgh.
UK RepositoryNet+
Progress on the repositories initiative including the selection of Wave 1 and 2 components.
PhoneBooth shows impact of mobile technology in education
Project deliverables now available from website.
Accessing ceased or cancelled content with LOCKSS
Integrating the LOCKSS software with leading link-resolver systems.
New Staff
Pratyusha Doddapaneni, David Girdwood, Mhairi O’Hara, William Petit and Chris Yocum join EDINA.

Newsline 17.2

2012: A good year for repositories
The Open Repositories 2012 Conference will be a showcase for several repository initiatives at EDINA.
Cartogrammar maps help display data
The Cartogrammar project attempts to break down some of the barriers in the creation and use of cartograms.
Tools and enhancements for Digimap for Schools
National grid lines overlay and a larger, full-screen map view makes the schools mapping application even more useful.
EDINA in team for English place names exploration
The Digital Exposure of English Place-Names project will provide a gazetteer for the Unlock web service.
Keepers Registry extends
The National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSLC) has joined other leading archiving organisations in the Keepers Registry.
Research data service offers new online training course
MANTRA, the research data management course, has recently moved from project to service status.
EDINA impact videos: introduction to key services
Statistical Accounts of Scotland, UKLOCKSS, and Unlock now all have video introductions.
Latest EDINA documents
Community Report March 2012, Digimap Newsletter, UKLA Roundup, SUNCAT - Benefits and impact survey report
Will’s World: There’s an app for that!
A fun mobile game using Shakespeare data provided by EDINA won top honours at Culture Hack Scotland this year.
New Staff
Sandy Buchanan, Matt Cuthbert, Dorothy Graves McEwan and Muriel Mewissen join the crew at EDINA.
Forthcoming Events

Newsline 17.1

Reflecting on user feedback
EDINA are endeavouring to listen to the feedback of our users across all our services in order to improve offerings to UK HE and FE.
Thematic Mapper application added to UKBORDERS
The UKBORDERS Thematic Mapper application can be used to create a shaded choropleth map from area-based statistics uploaded in a CSV file.
JISC MediaHub adds new content and features
New content such as 'Night Mail' and features such as 'Explore by Learning Materials' have recently been added.
Digimap Homepage
A new Digimap homepage is under development with the aim of making it easier and quicker for users to access the applications within Digimap.
UK RepositoryNet+
JISC intends to establish a socio-technical infrastructure to provide managers of institutional repositories with shared services.
Trading Consequences
An international collaboration to explore thousands of pages of historical documents related to international commodity trading in the British Empire during the 19th century.
UK Discovery
EDINA is contributing to the JISC/RLUK Discovery programme being managed by Mimas, our sister datacentre, to open up the databases behind existing websites through the creation and enhancement of metadata.
News in Brief
- PhoneBooth
- Geoforum coming in June
- GoGeo upgrades resource interface and metadata tool
- Digimap for Schools
Quaker library joins SUNCAT
About 2,000 serial records from the Library of the Society of Friends have just been loaded into SUNCAT.
New Staff
Cesare Bellini, Kelley Campbell, Andrew Dorward, David Speed, Alex Stuart
Forthcoming Events

Newsline 16.4

Digimap rounds off year with the launch of new Data Download page
The Digimap Ordnance Survey Collection now has a new Data Downloader, with an improved search and data selection interface. Also news of a new Digimap home page and geo-service surveys.
Digimap for Schools celebrates its first birthday
One year on and the Digimap for Schools service has gone from strength to strength.
Mobile EDINA
Over the next few months EDINA will be developing a range of clients for your iPhone and Android handsets, combining our existing services with the opportunities afforded by internet equipped, GPS enabled smartphones.
MANTRA building momentum
The new MANTRA website has already been visited by 3,000 people since its launch on 10 October, and received international recognition from the data curation community.
Open Repositories 2012: a conference theme and web site
Edinburgh will be hosting the Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR12), for which a theme has been announced and a web site launched.
CLOCKSS archive adds four publishers
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Ammons Scientific, the Laser Institute of America, and the Japan Institute Of Heterocyclic Chemistry.
JISC MediaHub: new features
The service continues to be developed and offers more features for users.
New libraries, videos and case studies for SUNCAT
New libraries plus extra online resources for SUNCAT users.
JISC GECO: events summary
The JISC GECO project has been busy in October and November supporting events throughout the UK.
Latest EDINA publications
New EDINA reports, presentations and videos
Final report on digital monograph study
The study’s final report is now available.

Newsline 16.3

Who is looking after your e-journals?
The Keepers Registry Beta service, at thekeepers.org, will be launched on 4 October 2011.
OR2012 comes to Edinburgh in July 2012
The Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2012) will be held in Edinburgh 9-13 July, 2012
Postcode link to boundary mapping data
The UKBORDERS Postcode Data Selector tool now lets allows users relate any boundary data set to any postcode directory.
Digimap news
Updates, enhancements and new features.
Geodoc news
Users can now ensure that their metadata complies with all the widely used metadata standards.
Early days of JISC MediaHub
As part of its continuous development, JISC MediaHub has been refreshed.
MANTRA for change
The MANTRA project developed online learning materials that reflect best practice in research data management in social science, clinical psychology, and geoscience.
Using OpenURL Activity Data final report released
The JISC-funded OpenURL Router Activity Data project has released its final report.
New look SALSER
SALSER, the Serials catalogue for Scottish academic and research libraries, has a fresh look while keeping the same basic functionality with some useful enhancements.
SUNCAT case studies
A new case study around the UK Research Reserve’s use of SUNCAT is now available.
EDINA and JISC Collections manage UK federation
JISC Collections and EDINA have taken over management of the UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research.
Events round-up
INSPIRE conference, Repository Fringe 2011, Carmichael Watson launch.
EDINA website changes
Over the month of October we will be making incremental but significant changes to the EDINA home page and some support pages.
New staff
David Ellis, Mike Gale, Panos Terzis
Forthcoming events

Newsline 16.2

JISC MediaHub: the definitive academic video, image & sound resource
Overview of the new EDINA media service.
GoGeo: New look, new search architecture
GoGeo now sports an interface improved in usability, functionality and visual design.
Conor Smyth, new head of Geo Services
Conor took over the position of Head of Research and Geodata Services at EDINA on 3 May 2011.
Release of OpenURL Router Data
EDINA has released the first set of OpenURL Router Data under the Open Data Commons.
New tools for Digimap
Digimap has rolled out new functionality for both the Digimap Roam and Geology Roam interfaces.
Key EDINA services renewed
Cab Abstracts, Land Life Leisure, Statistical Accounts, agcensus.
Integrate SUNCAT into your library services
A handy guide has been created to highlight SUNCAT Google and Facebook apps, the benefits of adding SUNCAT to your link resolver, federated or cross search service, library catalogue or website.
Augmented reality for smartphones
The final version of the TechWatch Report Augmented Reality for Smartphones report is now available.
E-Journals: who is looking after what?
A new registry service was launched at a meeting of the ISSN Governing Board in Paris on 28 April 2011.
Digimap for Schools wins GOLD Certificate
Digimap for Schools service won an award at the Geographical Association’s 2011 Publishers’ Awards.
Usability Service Enhancements to Digimap (USeD)
The USeD project will focus on improving the usability and learnability of the Digimap Data Downloader.
GoGeo goes for GOLD
GOLD exposes the GoGeo Catalogue and the Scottish Government Spatial Discovery Portal CSW content as a Linked Data triple store.
EDINA hands over Jorum
EDINA’s role in Jorum will come to a successful conclusion on 31 July 2011 after nine years of joint development between EDINA and Mimas.
Forthcoming events

Newsline 16.1

JISC Collections and EDINA to run UK federation
JISC Collections and EDINA will manage the UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research (the federation) from 1st August 2011.
User satisfaction surveys give services thumbs-up
A large majority of the respondents of recent user satisfaction surveys found our services easy to use, saved them time and would recommend them to others.
Jorum News:
- Resource discovery - direct from your website
  The Jorum team at EDINA and Mimas has been developing a set of widgets for embedding in web pages to view and find relevant learning and teaching resources.
- Which licence is best for my Jorum contribution?
  The licencing regime at Jorum is being simplified, from three options to two.
EDINA social media summary and guidelines
An update on EDINA's recent social media activity.
Popular geospatial article features Go-Geo!
Go-Geo! features in recent research published by BioMed Central,and is ranked among the most viewed articles.
Open University joins SUNCAT contributing libraries
The Open University is the first new SUNCAT contributing library of 2011.
UKBORDERS funded to July 2012
UKBORDERS has received funding for an additional year from August 2011-July 2012.
Two new EDINA geo-projects
Work has begun on two new JISC-funded geo-spatial projects at EDINA.
ShareGeo ArcGIS depositor plugin
EDINA has developed a plugin that makes sharing geospatial data even easier: the ShareGeo plugin is an extension for ESRI ArcCatalog.
Digimap for Schools at the BETT Show
EDINA's Digimap for Schools service was featured at the Ordnance Survey stand during the BETT Show in January at London's Olympia Exhibition Centre.
UK LOCKSS Alliance website to be relaunched
The UK LOCKSS Alliance website is being relaunched in March 2011.
Using OpenURL activity data
EDINA is currently undertaking a project funded by JISC to explore how OpenURL Router activity data could be made available as an aggregation on which services could be built for the good of the academic community.
Staff News
Robin Taylor joins EDINA.
Forthcoming events

Newsline 15.4

Digimap goes to school
Digimap for Schools is a service that makes the benefits of the OS data and maps in Digimap availabe to schools.
Marine Roam charts new waters
Marine Roam provides a simple mapping interface to SeaZone's Hydrospatial data, giving access to detailed offshore information around the coast of the UK.
JorumOpen: better preview and editing
In response to feedback received in the recent user survey, enhanced features have been added to the JorumOpen collection.
Scoping Study: Aggregating Image, Film & Sound Metadata
Final report of a study to scope the feasibility, viability and value of creating an aggregation of metadata about images and time-based media is now available.
The sounds of Scotland
Tobar an Dualchais makes available more than 15,000 recordings from Scotland's past.
News in brief...
- Mediahub: First look
  This is the initial design of the Mediahub user interface, a guide to which is on the blog http://mediahub.blogs.edina.ac.uk/
- AGI Awards: Digimap Highly Commended
  EDINA has received a Highly Commended mention at the annual Association for Geographic Information (AGI) Awards for Innovation and Best Practice.
- Photos in Geology Roam
  Geology Roam, the latest mapping service in Geology Digimap, now has a new feature allowing users to access over 3000 photographs of geological locations.
- Trinity College Dublin: the latest library added to SUNCAT
- Go-Geo! latest metadata newsletter
  The Autumn/Winter 2010 edition of Metadata News is available to read online or download.
Chalice project helping to create digital historical gazetteer
The Connecting Historical Authorities with Linked Data, Contexts and Entities (Chalice) project is helping to create a digital gazetteer of historical place names covering a thousand years of recorded history.
AddressingHistory launch
A new EDINA project will provide a tool to link data from historical Post Code directories to contemporaneous maps.
Tell us what you think: User satisfaction surveys
We are currently conducting user satisfaction surveys and would be very grateful if you could take a few minutes to answer some questions about your usage and experience of a selection of our services.
New staff
Nik Pardoe and Neil Mayo join EDINA.
Forthcoming events

Newsline 15.3

Newsline 15.2

Interesting times for Digimap
Overview of Digimap developments and guide to the relevant articles in this edition of Newsline.
Ordnance Survey and Open Data
How the Ordnance Survey's Open Data programme compares with what is on offer through Digimap.
AddressingHistory
A new EDINA project will provide a tool to link data from historical Post Code directories to contemporaneous maps.
Updated Geodoc metadata tool meets new regulations
A new version of Geodoc, the metadata authoring tool from Go-Geo!, was released in late April.
Geology Roam mapping tool
A new interface for the Geology Digimap online mapping service.
Digimap for Schools
A new Digimap service targeted at schools is now available.
Historic Digimap - new mapping and download facilities
An upgrade to the mapping interface of the historic map service is coupled with a brand-new download facility.
e-Journals are forever? workshop on preserving access to content
A workshop to bring together those responsible for e-journal strategy and archiving in the UK
First meeting of the UK LOCKSS Alliance Steering Committee
The newly established UK LOCKSS Alliance Steering Committee gathered for the first time in April 2010.
News in brief...
- JISC Repository Definition Project
  A project to work on a JISC repository.
- EDINA gets social
  A new EDINA web page links to our activities using social media.
- EDINA presentations and publications now available online
  Another new EDINA web page provides links to many EDINA presentations and publications.
Staff News
Welcome to Hiten Vaghmaria, the new Service Manager for Jorum, and Gary Gray, supporting the UK Access Management Federation.
Forthcoming Events
Upcoming conferences, exhibitions, and training events.

Newsline 15.1

Ease and continuing access to journal content
Current developments to ensure the continuity of access to online journals.
Open Access Repository Junction project website
A new website and blog will help keep information flowing on the progress of the project.
Corporate documentation updated
New versions of the Community Report, Annual Report, Annual Review, and Strategy and Business Development Plans are all available online.
JorumOpen offers Creative Commons resources
An overview of the different licences and levels of access to Jorum resources.
More Wellcome films in Film & Sound Online
Eighteen new films have been added to the collection.
Digimap: Roam rolls out across collections
Roam-style interfaces are being developed for all the Digimap collections.
Land Life Leisure service changes
The service will no longer be updated.
Digimap 10th birthday event
A report on the 10th birthday bash in Edinburgh in January.
Staff News
A fond farewell to David Medyckyj-Scott, and a welcome to Sheila Fraser.
Forthcoming Events
Upcoming conferences, exhibitions, and training events.

Newsline 14.4

Unlock: a new Geo-service
New service helps make geodata discoverable.
All set for JorumOpen
Developments at Jorum include a new Open Access licence.
Scoping NESLi post-cancellation
The JISC-funded PECAN project scopes the concerns of librarians about access to post-cancellation e-journal content.
Digimap 10th birthday event
Support staff are invited to a 10th birthday bash in Edinburgh.
LOCKSS program preserves medical journal series
The LOCKSS program has saved access to a medical journal which would otherwise have been unavailable to institutional subscribers.
New film trails for archaeology and social history
Two film trails added to Film & Sound Online.
Depot for international OA
The Depot opens for international institutions.
Personalisation project produces middleware demonstrators
EDINA has built two demonstrators of middleware services to aid personalisation.
Asian photo archive complements Film & Sound Online collection
The School of Oriental and Asian Studies (SOAS) archive of Professor Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf including photographs, cine film and written materials is now open for people to use.
GeoDoc tool leads way to new geospatial metadata standards
GeoDoc enables metadata authors to conform to a set of international standards.
EDINA focus on stewardship
A new area on the EDINA web site highlights work on ensuring continuous access to resources.
New staff
Fiona Culloch is our new member of staff.
Forthcoming Events
Upcoming conferences, exhibitions, and training events.

Newsline 14.3

Digimap "Classic" becomes "Roam"
A re-engineered service replaces Digimap Classic with a faster, more useful interface.
New Digimap OS Collection licence
Key changes relate to the definition of Authorised User and to the publication size restrictions.
Do you need help with maps? New survey will identify user needs
An online survey of all users of geospatial data and resources within the academic community hopes to identify user needs.
Better software, better Digimap
New software makes Digimap faster, more flexible.
SUNCAT links to journals' tables of contents
Table of contents functionality helps users find the right journals.
Land Life Leisure improves links to full-text
Summary records have a new field which links to abstracts and full-text.
Digital Images for Education
A new JISC Collections "archive" will contain over 500 hours of film and 56,000 photos, all copyright-cleared for use in education.
OpenURL usage data: what are they good for?
The Shared OpenURL Data Infrastructure Investigation project issues final report, recommendations.
New staff
Four new faces.
EDINA news on the web
Links to recent news items on the EDINA web site.
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Higher Education Access to Geospatial Data in Europe
Two recent surveys show the state of play for access to geospatial data in Europe.
Forthcoming Events
Upcoming conferences, exhibitions, and training events.

Newsline 14.2

Key service renewals for 2009
Digimap, Film & Sound Online, CAB Abstracts, Land Life Leisure, Statistical Accounts, and agcensus.
SUNCAT user satisfaction survey
Survey confirms users are getting the most out of SUNCAT.
SALSER updated
New libraries and a new go button.
UKBORDERS single login
Athens login to disappear from UKBORDERS.
DataShare project success
DataShare has advanced the current provision of repository services for accommodating datasets in the UK.
EM-Loader entry short-listed in Repository Challenge
Prototype to help researchers submit papers to a repository gains a place on international competition short-list.
CLOCKSS preserves access to discontinued OUP title
Journal title ending triggers CLOCKSS archive.
New faces on EDINA Helpdesk
Two arrive, one leaves.
Supporting you remotely
Online courses to resume in fall.
Film & Sound Online update
More Wellcome films swell ranks of Film & Sound Online.
Jorum Learning & Teaching competition
Jorum hosts competition for learning objects.
Forthcoming Events
Upcoming conferences, exhibitions, and training events.