Presentations & Publications

Below are some of the publications and presentations we have produced during the current academic year (August to July), most recent first.

There are also numerous Digimap Training presentations.

Archive of older presentations: August 2009 – July 2012.

Presentations

Presentation Title and Link Presenter Event
April 2013
Managing and Using Social Media to Develop Your Academic Identity Online Nicola Osborne Managing and Using Social Media to Develop Your Academic Identity Online Workshop, 19 April 2013, Cardiff
COBWEB, AIP-6, and Access Management Federations Chris Higgins and Andreas Matheus Geo European Projects' Workshop, 15-16 April 2013, Barcelona
E-Journals and Long Term Availability: UK LOCKSS Alliance Adam Rusbridge UKSG 2013 Conference, Bournemouth, 8-10 April 2013
E-Journals and long-term availability: an overview and panel discussion on the archiving infrastructure to meet the needs of users Fred Guy and Adam Rusbridge UKSG 2013 Conference, Bournemouth, 8-10 April 2013
Digimap Essentials Vivienne Carr Digimap Collections Training, Newcastle, 10 April 2013
Fieldtrip GB: Creating a customisable mapping and data capture app for the HEFE community Ben Butchart and Addy Pope GISRUK 2013, University of Liverpool, 3 – 5 April 2013.
March 2013
Social Media at the University of Edinburgh and Beyond Nicola Osborne UoE Social Media Community Group meeting, Edinburgh, 8 March 2013.
Marine Digimap Vivienne Carr EDINA Webinar, 6 March 2013
February 2013
Geology Digimap Vivienne Carr EDINA Webinar, 27 February 2013
Geospatial Metadata and Spatial Data Workshop (pdf 44.6 mb) Tony Mathys Geospatial Metadata and Spatial Data Workshop, University of Aberdeen, 22 February 2013
OS MasterMap data in AutoCAD Vivienne Carr EDINA Webinar, 20 February 2013
The Course of Online Events Never Did Run Smooth? Nicola Osborne University of Edinburgh MSc in E-Learning Alumni Seminar, Virtual University of Edinburgh, Second Life, 20 February 2013
Geo APIs Tom Armitage Smart Data Hack, Innovations learning Week, Informatics Bldg, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 18 February, 2013
Open Spatial Data: Sources and Tools Stuart Macdonald Smart Data Hack, Innovations learning Week, Informatics Bldg, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 18 February, 2013
Use data from Digimap in ArcGIS Vivienne Carr EDINA Webinar, 6 February 2013
January 2013
Introduction to the COBWEB Project Chris Higgins Citizen's Observatories Coordination Workshop, Brussels, 29 January 2013
Using Social Media to Communicate Your Research Nicola Osborne Heriot-Watt Crucible V, at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 24 January 2013
JISC MediaHub, Overview January 2013 Andrew Bevan An overview of digital media services provided by Jisc, Webinar, 22 January 2013
UK RepositoryNet+ Andrew Dorward RSP Event: 'Supporting and Enhancing Your Repository', London, 21 January 2013
Geology Digimap Tom Armitage The Geological Society Higher Education Network Annual Meeting, Nottingham, 16 January 2013
Implementing the Research Data Management Policy: University of Edinburgh Roadmap Robin Rice International Digital Curation Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 15 January 2013
December 2012
The Carmichael Watson Project: Putting Folklore In Its Place Neil Mayo Working Digitally with Historical Maps Workshop, Edinburgh, 13 December 2012
Research Data Management Roadmap@Edinburgh Stuart Macdonald EDINA Projects day, Edinburgh, 11 December 2012
Tales from the Keepers Registry Peter Burnhill Digital Future & You, Library of Congress, Washington DC, 10 December 2012
Developing Research Data Management Policy and Services Robin Rice Digital Curation Centre Roadshow Northeast Scotland, Dundee, 5 December 2012
JISC MediaHub
Also available on Video
Vivienne Carr JISC MediaHub Webinar, 5 December 2012
November 2012
JISC MediaHub Andrew Bevan JISC MediaHub – Progress Update Webinar, Edinburgh, 30 November 2012
UK RepositoryNet+: Jisc Oversight Group, 2012-11-29 Peter Burnhill, Andrew Dorward, Terry Sloan JISC Oversight Group, London, 29 November 2012
Ordnance Survey Data Download
Also available on Video
Vivienne Carr Digimap Ordnance Survey Data Download Webinar, 28 November 2012
COBWEB Authentication Workshop Chris Higgins Ninth Plenary Session of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO-IX), 22-23 November 2012, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil
Building research data management services at the University of Edinburgh: a data librarian's view Robin Rice Online Information, London, 20 November 2012
Organising and Documenting Data Stuart Macdonald University of Edinburgh Liaison Librarian pilot training in RDM, Edinburgh, 15 November 2012
Open @ EDINA Addy Pope OS OpenData Masterclass, Edinburgh, 15 November 2012
Shibboleth statistics using Raptor Alex Stuart e-Infrastructure for the Future of Education and Research, 8 November 2012, Athlone, Ireland
JISC MediaHub Andrew Bevan RSC Learning Resources Conference, Manchester, 8 November 2012
Introduction to Research Data Management Stuart Macdonald RDM training, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, 7 November 2012
Digimap Roam
Also available on Video
Vivienne Carr Roam: view, annotate and save/download OS maps Webinar, 7 November 2012
Usability Service Enhancements to Digimap Addy Pope IS Usability Workshops, University of Edinburgh, 1 November 2012
October 2012
JISC Managing Research Data: Liaison Librarian Training Stuart Macdonald DCC/JISC Managing Research Data workshop, Nottingham, 25 October 2012
Introduction to Digimap's Ordnance Survey Collection
Also available on Video
Vivienne Carr Introduction to Digimap's Ordnance Survey Collection webinar, 24 October 2012.
Academic Blogging Nicola Osborne Academic Blogging workshop, Edinburgh, 22 October 2012
Open @ EDINA Addy Pope State of the Map Scotland, Edinburgh, 19 October 2012.
Engaging with Social Media Nicola Osborne JISC Communications and dissemination workshop, London, 5 October 2012.
Digimap Site Rep Update
Also available on Video
Vivienne Carr Update for Digimap Site Representatives Webinar, 3 October 2012.
September 2012
Archiving The World's E-Journals: The Keepers Registry As Global Monitor Peter Burnhill UNESCO The Memory of the World in the Digital age: Digitization and Preservation, Vancouver, Canada, 28 September, 2012
DiscoverEDINA (Geo, MediaHub, SUNCAT) Muriel Mewissen JISC Discovery Programme Final Meeting, Birmingham, 28 September 2012
The Use of Linked Data in the Shakespeare Registry Project Muriel Mewissen CIGS 2nd Linked Open Data Conference, Edinburgh, 21 September 2012
Social Media & Managing your Online Presence Nicola Osborne Naturejobs Career Expo — London 2012, London, 20 September 2012
Cartogrammar poster Sandy Buchanan Digital Research 2012, Oxford, 10 September 2012
Cartogrammar Sandy Buchanan Open Source GIS Conference, Nottingham, 4 September 2012
Promoting online resources Andrew Bevan Increasing usage of e-resources, Credo/Scran/EDINA - Aberdeen/Glasgow/Edinburgh, 4-6 September 2012
August 2012
Assessing User Satisfaction for the Digimap Service Tom Armitage British Cartographic Society's Map Curators Group Workshop, Leeds, 29 August 2012
Engaging the Researcher in RDM Stuart Macdonald ANDS Webinar - Research Data Interviews, 14 August 2012

Publications

Publication Title and Link Author(s) Details
Tales from The Keepers Registry: Serial Issues About Archiving & the Web Peter Burnhill Serials Review 39 (2013) 3–20
AddressingHistory—Crowdsourcing a Nation's Past Stuart Macdonald & Nicola Osborne Journal of Map & Geography Libraries: Advances in Geospatial Information, Collections & Archives Volume 9, Issue 1-2, 2013
Fieldtrip GB: Creating a customisable mapping and data capture app for the HEFE community(PDF Download) Ben Butchart, Addy Pope, Murray King, George Hamilton, Panos Terzis, Michael Koutroumpas Paper presented at GISRUK 2013, University of Liverpool, 3 – 5 April 2013.
OGC® Engineering Report for the OWS Shibboleth Interoperability Experiment (PDF Download) Editor: Chris Higgins OGC® Public Engineering Reports, 6 April 2012.
AddressingHistory: A Web 2.0 Community Engagement Tool and API Stuart Macdonald IASSIST Quarterly, Volume 35, Issue 3, Fall 2011
Digital Monograph Technical Landscape study
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Liza Daly EDINA published report for JISC, Dec 2011
Going for GOLD - Adventures in Open Linked Metadata James Reid, Will Waites, Ben Butchart Paper presented at the AGI GeoCommunity11 Conference, Nottingham, 20 September 2011
Shibboleth Access Management Federations as an Organisational Model for SDI Christopher I Higgins, Michael Koutroumpas, Andreas Matheus and Andrew Seales International Journal for Spatial Data Infrastructures Research, Vol 7 (2012)
Research Data Management Initiatives at University of Edinburgh Robin Rice & Jeff Haywood Paper presented at the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, December 2010
Geospatial resources for supporting data standards, guidance and best practice in health informatics(PDF file, 1.5 MB) Tony Mathys & Maged N. Kamel Boulos BMC Research Notes, Volume 4, January 2011
Amplification and Analysis of Academic Events through Social Media: A Case Study of the 2009 Beyond the Repository Fringe Event Nicola Osborne In Wankel C. and Wankel L. (eds.) Higher Education Administration with Social Media Including Applications in Student Affairs, Enrollment Management, Alumni Relations, and Career Centers. Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 167-190. 2011
Collaboration to Data Curation: Harnessing Institutional Expertise Stuart Macdonald & Luis Martinez-Uribe New Review of Academic Librarianship, Volume 16, Issue S1 2010, pages 4 - 16
Securing Geospatial Information (PDF file, 989.1 KB) Chris Higgins, Andreas Matheus & Steven Ramage Geoconnexion, Volume 9, October 2010
Lowering the barriers from Discovery to Delivery: a JISC funded EDINA and Mimas project (PDF file, 1.3 MB) Fred Guy & Joy Elizabeth Palmer Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 38 No. 3, September 2010
AddressingHistory - An online community engagement tool (PDF file, 134.2 KB) Stuart Macdonald ALISS Quarterly, Volume 5, no. 4, July 2010
Piloting an E-journals Preservation Service (PEPRS). (PDF file, 112 KB) Peter Burnhill & Fred Guy The Serials Librarian, 58: 1, 117-126. Author Posting. (c) 'The North American Serials Interest Group, Inc., 2010.
This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of The North American Serials Interest Group, Inc. for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in The Serials Librarian, Volume 58 Issue 1, January 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03615261003622742
Evaluation of Georeferencing (PDF 176 KB) Richard Tobin, Claire Grover, Kate Byrne, James Reid & Jo Walsh Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, Zurich, Switzerland, February 2010
Research Data Practice in the Life Sciences Stuart Macdonald UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, University of Oxford, 7 December 2009
SUNCAT: the next steps for the UK's national serials catalogue Zena Mulligan In Interlending & Document Supply 37(4) (2009) 215-222, October 2009
SUNCAT Impact and Satisfaction Survey Report (PDF file, 143 KB) Zena Mulligan EDINA published report for JISC, October 2009
User Engagement in Research Data Curation Stuart Macdonald Lecture Notes in Computer Science – Research in Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Volume 5714/2009
JISC SIS Web 2 Case Study Nicola Osborne Contribution to JISC Shared Infrastructure Services Landscape Study - A survey of the use of Web 2.0 tools and services in the UK HE sector, August 2009

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