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News Archive

PerX Harvesting

18 October 2006

Metadata record harvesting from the GRADE geospatial repository demonstrator using OAI-PMH has been shown to be a valid technology for future use.

PerX is a pilot subject-based cross-repository search tool for resource discovery in engineering (& GIS).  The project is harvesting the GRADE geospatial metadata as part of its discovery tool.  To check this out go to Advance Search.

GRADE Repository & Go-Geo! metadata workshop UK Tour

2 October 2006

The GRADE Repository & Go-Geo! metadata workshop UK Tour kicked off in March earlier this year.  The aim of the interactive workshop sessions is to introduce students and academic staff to the GRADE repository, and how to use it, and to Go-Geo! search and metadata tools, what is metadata and its importance for geospatial/ GIS data-sharing and reuse.

The podcast of the winning session down at the Kingston Centre for GIS (including live chocolate pudding demonstration!) will be available to view online shortly (after some editing perhaps! ...).

The sessions are always a lot of fun and Free.  For further information about the workshops, dates, and to sign-up, or arrange at your own institution please contact Tony Mathys.

DCC Matintaining Long-term access to Geospatial Data Event

Friday 27th October - 29 September 2006

The GRADE project will be presenting at the UK Digital Curation Centre Event about Maintaining Long-term Access to Geospatial Data, on Fri 27th October 2006, at the e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh.

More information and registration.

This one-day workshop event will cover many issues connected to the GRADE project (see Agenda) including:

Registration is now open to interested parties.  For further information contact Guy McGarva.

More information on External events attended by GRADE.

CEBE news Update GRADE Article

19 July 2006

The GRADE project has featured in a news article in the June 2006 Centre for Education in the Built Environment newsletter, written by Dr Andrea Frank at Cardiff University.

IASSIST 2006, Michigan, USA. Event success!

4 July 2006

The International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology (IASSIST) was attended by Stuart McDonald and Robin Rice of the Edinburgh University Data Library, affiliated with EDINA and GRADE.

Winners of the GRADE Informal Questionnaire Draw.

3 July 2006

GRADE are proud to announce the three winners of the GRADE Informal geospatial data-sharing questionnaire. They are:

The closing date of the draw was June 30th, and each won £50 of Amazon vouchers. A big thank you to everyone who participated in the informal geospatial data-sharing questionnaire, we had over 100 responses to date.

We would still love to get in more responses, so please do still go ahead and fill in the informal questionnaire and tell us about how you share geospatial data.

GRADE Informal geospatial data-sharing questionnaire

6 June 2006

Please take part in the GRADE Informal geospatial data-sharing questionnaire and WIN one of three £50 Amazon vouchers.

The aim of the questionnaire is to understand the barriers to geospatial data-sharing in the UK, the ways and routes researchers in academia share data 'informally', and to help improve licenses and technical issues to make data-sharing and reuse easier.

The closing date for the Prize draws will be JUNE 30th. For more information see 'Project status/work package 2', and for further details contact: bex.seymour@ed.ac.uk

Many thanks for your help!

User Survey Winner

11 April 2006

Congratulations! from the GRADE Team to Neda Hosseinzadeh Rad from Kingston University on winning the GRADE User Survey £30 Amazon Prize Draw on the 3rd April 2006.

Complete the GRADE "User Survey" questionnaire and to tell us about what functions and interface you would like a geospatial repository to have.

See the new Demonstrator Cosmetics Revamp!

22 March 2006

The GRADE geospatial repository demonstrator has now had a new design cosmetic revamp.

The cosmetic make-over was largely in response everyone participating in the testing of the demonstrator in the last two months. An enormous thanks to all those who helped. Please do keep all of the feedback coming! We hope to put into place some of the functional and technical requested improvements in the following few months.

If you wish to get involved please contact grade-support@ed.ac.uk for more details.

Best wishes from the GRADE Team!

GRADE geospatial repository demonstrator is now Live

24 January 2006

The GRADE team at EDINA have announced the release of the GRADE geospatial repository demonstrator (phase one stage).

The demonstrator is a web-based test geospatial repository. Its main purpose is as a mechanism for exploring the technical and cultural issues in the reuse of geospatial data. It has been built in order to engage with the academic GI community to aid an understanding of the tools, functionality, and user interface a geospatial repository may need, and to assess the types of geospatial datasets and potential degree of reuse of GIS data. The phase one demonstrator has basic functionality (i.e. search, upload, retrieval) which will be built and developed as the project progresses and in response to feedback.

The GRADE demonstrator is currently in a test phase with restricted use. However if you are a Digimap-user and keen to get involved with consultation stage and in testing the demonstrator, click Here to go to the Demonstrator Home Page. Or to find out further information, please make a request via:

Rebecca Seymour, Tel: 0131 6511227, email at: grade-support@ed.ac.uk

GRADE Geospatial Data Audit

10 January 2006

We are currently undertaking an audit of geospatial data within institutional repositories.

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