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.
• Digital Monograph Technical Landscape Study:
  A landscape study looking at the issues surrounding the adoption of e-book reader technology to assist with the publishing of scholarly literature, in particular monographs.
• 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.
• SUNCAT: exploring open metadata:
  This project will seek to determine what must be done to extend access to the catalogue, including holdings' information.
• 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

Maps & Data projects

• AddressingHistory Phase 2:
  The project created an online tool to combine data from digitised historical Scottish Post Office Directories with contemporaneous historical maps.
• 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.
• Geospatial Engagement and Community Outreach (GECO):
  The overarching purpose of GECO is to foster a community(ies) of users of geospatial resources (data, services, support). Geospatial, taken in its broadest sense underpins a vast array of academic endeavour - geography represents a fundamental organising axis for information.
• Spatio-Temporal Energy Efficiency Visualisation (STEEV):
  This project will build a stakeholder engagement tool visualising historic, current and future energy efficiency estimates at the level of individual buildings.
• Interoperable Geographic Information for Biosphere Study:
  The IGIBS project is building on prior work demonstrating how Shibboleth (the open source software that underpins the UK Access Management Federation) can be used to provide an organisational model for Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI).
• Usability Service Enhancements to Digimap (USeD):
  This JISC-funded project is looking at ways of improving the Digimap Data Download facility.
• Linked Data Focus:
  A project to produce Linked Open Data output from several different EDINA projects and services.
• GoGeo as Linked Data (GOLD):
  The work will expose the GoGeo Catalogue and the Scottish Government Spatial Discovery Portal CSW content as a Linked Data triple store.
• 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.
• Geographical Tagging of Resources:
  GeoT will wrap existing open source software for reading, writing, and manipulating image, audio, and video metadata, into a web service.
• 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