Reference & Multimedia projects

• Organisation and Repository Identification:
  The ORI project will develop a standalone middleware tool for identifying academic organisations and associated repositories.
• Piloting An E-Journals Preservation Registry Service (PEPRS):
  A project to scope, build and test a pilot e-journals preservation registry service (PEPRS) that will provide users with information about which electronic journals have arrangements in place for digital preservation so that journal articles can be accessed over the long term
• Pilot for Ensuring Continuity of Access via NESLi2 (PECAN):
  PECAN is a JISC-funded project to investigate how best to support libraries and their patrons through access to e-journal content post-cancellation.
• Using OpenURL Activity Data:
  This project will take forward the recommendations of the Shared OpenURL Data Infrastructure Investigation to further explore the value and viability of releasing OpenURL activity data for use by third parties as a means of supporting development of innovative functionality that serves the UK HE community.
• Will’s World: Walking Through Shakespeare (Discovery 2012):
  A project to develop an aggregation of online sources of digital resources relating to William Shakespeare, covering performance, interpretative and contextual resources
• DiscoverEDINA: SUNCAT
  This activity will take forward some of the recommendations identified by the Phase 1 project (SUNCAT Exploring Linked Metadata), which investigated how SUNCAT could make this data openly available as linked data.
• DiscoverEDINA: JISC MediaHub
  This activity will develop a crowd sourcing feature for use within JISC MediaHub, which will store metadata contributed by users, then make it searchable and available openly as part of the existing metadata aggregation.

Maps & Data projects

• AddressingHistory:
  The project created an online tool to combine data from digitised historical Scottish Post Office Directories with contemporaneous historical maps.
• COBWEB: to create a testbed environment which will enable citizens living with UNESCO designated Biosphere Reserves to collect environmental data using mobile devices
• Scottish Spatial Data Infrastructure:
  EDINA has formed a partnership with the Scottish Government to develop a pilot discovery metadata service as a key component of a Scottish Spatial Data Infrastructure.
• Linked Data Focus:
  A project to produce Linked Open Data output from several different EDINA projects and services.
• PhoneBooth:
  PhoneBooth will repurpose the Charles Booth Maps, Descriptive of London Poverty and selected police notebooks, which record eye-witness descriptions of London street-by-street, for delivery to mobile devices.
• Trading Consequences:
  a tool to explore data about the economic and environmental consequences of commodity trading during the nineteenth century.
• CartoGrammar:
  A project to develop an open web service and supporting web site 'galleria' and tools that will allow social scientists to create, share and reuse custom, bespoke cartograms
• DiscoverEDINA: GeoT
  This activity will develop a web service, based on open source software, to extract metadata from and embed new metadata in multimedia content, with a particular focus on geo-tagging of resources.
• Digitisation and Exposure of English Place-names (DEEP)
  This project will digitize the entire 86 volume corpus of the Survey of English Place-Names (SEPN).
  

Infrastructure projects

• Knowledge Base+:
  A shared community service that is aiming to improve the quality, accuracy, coverage and availability of data for the management of electronic resources for UK HE
• EZID UK:
  This project will investigate and develop the infrastructure which might support an EZID UK service. EZID (easy-eye-dee) is a service offered by the University of California Curation Center (UC3), which makes it easy to create and manage unique, long-term identifiers for digital content.
• CloudWorkbench:
  Building capacity, experience and facility within EDINA to exploit Cloud based technology stacks for the purposes of service delivery, economic long term sustainability and compatibility with emerging UK and global digital infrastructures.
• Online Visual Dashboard:
  To give EDINA the capacity to produce a customer-focused service assessment capacity. It is intended that the OVD will be trialled initially with the Digimap for Schools service. It is expected that there will be a wide range of users for this service, including institutional service managers, school budget holders, EDINA service managers, and JISC Collections..
• REDIC:
  This project will scope and build a prototype system and infrastructure for an authoritative registry of information about research equipment and facilities (nationally or internationally) available in the CERIF format for use by researchers in the course of their work.
• Repository Junction Broker:
  Project is to scope, build and test a deposit broker tool to assist open access deposit into, and interoperability between, existing repository services.