EDINA Annual Review 2012–2013

What EDINA Does:

A Community Report

Annual Review2012-2013

1. Chair’s Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2. Director’s Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

3. Stories of Contribution and Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

4. Meeting Our Strategic Goals in 2012-2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

5. Strategic Context and the Future. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

6. EDINA Management Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Appendix 1: EDINA Services during Aug 2012-July 2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Appendix 2: Total number of monthly logins for EDINA JISC services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Appendix 3: Registered Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Appendix 4: Staff at EDINA and Data Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Appendix 5: Conferences, Meetings, CPD and Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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EDINA Annual Review: 2012-2013

1. Chair’s Introduction

WelcomeAs independent Chair of EDINA’s Management Board, and on behalf of its Members and Associates, I am delighted to write this introduction to EDINA’s Annual Review, 2012/13.

Changing timesHigher and further education in the UK are still going through unprecedented changes in culture, technology and funding sources. Institutions throughout the UK are working within much tighter funding constraints, with value for money a key driver. Changes in England, in particular, have seen higher fees and the loss of much direct public funding, shifting much of the burden of paying for education to the individual rather than the state. Such changes will result in yet more pressure for high quality, cost-effective teaching and learning opportunities.

Similarly times are changing for researchers. Things are moving quickly in terms of funders’ policies for sharing and management of datasets and scholarly communications, including the various flavours of Open Access. Researchers need support in locating, accessing, sharing and archiving essential documents and data for the long-term benefit of themselves, their institutions, our country and indeed the whole world.

At the same time, Jisc has become a Registered Charity owned by Universities UK, the Association of Colleges and Guild HE, and this, too, is having impact on all individuals and organisations that have dealings with it, including of course EDINA.

PartnershipThe partnership between Jisc and EDINA to run online services for higher and further education in the UK is expressed in a formal Funding Agreement between Jisc and the University of Edinburgh. The Management Board is established under that Funding Agreement and advises EDINA staff on all manner of strategic issues.

As retiring Chair, it has been a pleasure to work with such a supportive and knowledgeable Management Board. The discussions we have had are always informed, intelligent and incisive and they have helped EDINA to steer its way forward in these challenging times. I welcome my successor, Professor Mark Brown, to the Chair and am confident that EDINA will continue to go from strength to strength within the new Jisc family of services and organisations.

I am certain that EDINA will continue to provide high-quality online shared services, tools, supportive infrastructure and expertise to help institutions, students, lecturers and researchers achieve their objectives. EDINA offers a suite of tried and tested resources and a strong commitment to serve all of its communities, with quality improvement built in to its processes. It has been an honour and a pleasure to be associated with EDINA in recent years. I commend its services to you. Read on for a flavour of what the expert staff at EDINA have been doing, especially (but not exclusively) in the past academic year …

Professor Charles Oppenheim, Chair of the EDINA Management Board

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2. Director’s Report

What EDINA DoesEDINA exists in order to enhance and to be integral to the quality and productivity of research and education, in the UK & beyond. We do this as a Jisc-designated centre for online service delivery and expertise.

What we do – as our special contribution - is develop and deliver online services and digital infrastructure. In part that means working to help ensure ease and continuity of access to the digital resources needed for scholarship and skills and to the record of scholarship.

Having played a successful part since 1995/96, and repeatedly building upon experience as Edinburgh University Data Library, we have confidence in our role in enabling Jisc to address sector priorities and to support national strategies:

Flagship services for content & discovery include Jisc MediaHub, Digimap Collections, SUNCAT and the new Keepers Registry - having respective focus on multimedia, geo-spatial data & mapping, and e-journals, not forgetting learning materials such as MANTRA for research data management and modules covering the basics of geo-spatial data.

Integral to this, and with middleware allowing a broad definition of infrastructure, EDINA has pioneered the creation of the UK academic spatial data infrastructure, repository and OpenURL components for scholarly content, as well as the UK access management federation (variously with Janet and Jisc Collections)

There is effective online advice and guidance with active and expert Helpdesk support, enabling our customers and decision-makers engage with innovative digital content and technologies and achieve their goals

This service-orientation is underpinned by a proven track record in cutting edge technological investigation and delivery, acting as a centre of excellence for research and development in strategic areas for Jisc.

Our work is based upon critical understanding of what is needed by the individuals who consume services and what is required by our customer organisations, drawing upon feedback from users and the knowledge and expertise we have gained in working with support staff in universities, colleges, research institutes and educational organisations across many years.

For a full view of our work, I would ask you to turn to our twice-yearly Community Report, provided online and in print as a ‘good read’ about the full range of project and service activity at EDINA.

Funding and expertiseSet within the University’s Information Services and with established links into faculty, such as the School of Informatics and the Institute of Academic Development, EDINA is able to offer a highly competitive and cost-effective range of shared services for UK research and education.

Peter Burnhill, Director of EDINA

View a video introduction from our Director on YouTube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km5A4wqzSdY

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The valued annual investment by Jisc enables an economy of scale and a critical mass of skill and talent to be sustained at EDINA for the benefit of the research, education and skills sector. This is complemented by funding from the European Union, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Research Council and Government attracted by EDINA’s international as well as national reputation.

2012/13Reporting on the past academic year prompts reflection on what we all understand as an era of ‘interesting times’, both for the sectors we serve and for the wider national global economy in which universities, colleges and skills providers operate, and also for Jisc and the Jisc family of support organisations of which EDINA is one.

It has been essential during this period to maintain focus on what EDINA is for and does best – the development and delivery of online services for research and education. This we have done as will be evident for readers of this Annual Review – a productive and memorable year.

The Annual Review outlines some key success stories, which detail our contribution to the developing infrastructure now supporting scholarly and skills-based endeavour and practice in the UK. Perhaps not so obvious is the priority of attention my senior colleagues and I have had to give to reach some understanding of the changes in our environment that have been taking place and to communicate those effectively without causing alarm.

This is my opportunity to thank all across EDINA for that focus and continued world-class delivery of services. Thanks are also due to those to whom we report. First, thanks go to the University and its leadership for supporting our planning, both in terms of financial sustainability in the face of uncertainty and our determination that EDINA should retain and add to its capabilities. Second, but most importantly to Professor Charles Oppenheim who has provided guidance and wisdom that has been appreciated by EDINA staff and Board members alike.

What we can do for youWe are focused on providing you with cost-effective shared services and infrastructure for research and education. This leverages the acknowledged expertise of our staff and the world-class technical facilities available at the University of Edinburgh, part of the communities that Jisc and the wider Jisc family seek to serve. These continue to be financially-challenging times and operating to agreed service levels we are confident that we will continue to provide you with trustworthy and quality assured services. That said, we can always do better, so please contact us at [email protected] to find out how we can help.

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3. Stories of Contribution and Success

Digital content and discovery

Geospatial enabling and data infrastructure Digimap CollectionsThe Digimap Collections from EDINA provide online access to, and support for, the most comprehensive set of maps and geospatial data available to UK higher and further education, ranging from Ordnance Survey to historical, geological and marine maps and data. Substantial improvements to all of the services have been made over 2012/13, which were showcased at the EDINA GeoForum, as well as at other high profile events during the year.

The improvements included the release in August 2013 of consistent functionality for all the Roam interfaces, including look-and-feel across the Collections and new save and print interfaces; and the release in 2012 of measurement and annotation tools in all Roam services.

Further improvements included the recent launch of the new Geology Download. This replacement interface looks very similar to the Data Download service in the Ordnance Survey Collection and so benefits from all the enhanced functionality and ease of use.

Annual surveys demonstrate the extent to which the Digimap services have become integrated into the teaching of a broad range of subjects, and enabled research not previously possible.

Usage of the Digimap Collections represents a commercial value of nearly £40 million for all the printed maps and data downloaded by subscribing institutions from August 2012 to May 2013. This figure is a conservative value, accounting for the reuse of data within each institution. It represents excellent value for money for universities and colleges in the UK.

Helping to enable the UK academic SDISpatial data infrastructures (SDIs) aim to make the discovery, use and reuse of geospatial data and services more transparent, cost effective and interoperable. EDINA acts on behalf of Jisc and the academic sector, sitting on various working groups in the Government’s UK Location Programme (UKLP) and on the Scottish Spatial Information Board, both acting within the European Union’s INSPIRE Directive.

EDINA has been at the forefront of developing the academic SDI by deploying industry approved geospatial standards, developed and promoted by International Organization for Standardisation (ISO) and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), which form the bedrock for data discovery and exchange. EDINA has been a member of the OGC since 1999 and co-Chairs its University Working Group.

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3. Stories of Contribution and Success

EDINA continues to engage and support the sector through awareness raising activities, providing advice on INSPIRE, and promoting UKAMF/Shibboleth for the protection of OGC web services.

Geo support for resource discoveryEDINA services GoGeo, Geodoc, ShareGeo Open and Unlock form key parts of the academic SDI. They ensure that geospatial resources can be documented, discovered and reused and that search ‘by location’ can be provided in other non-spatial Jisc collections. GoGeo and Geodoc ensure the UK HE sector can engage with the UK Location Programme and the INSPIRE Directive.

In GoGeo and Geodoc, users can find data, geospatial services and resources, and create and publish standards-compliant geospatial metadata. Several enhancements have been undertaken this year. The contents of four new international geospatial metadata catalogues are discoverable via the data search. Geodoc now not only pushes metadata to GoGeo for publication but also to data.gov.uk.

Online mapping and learning resources for schoolsA collaborative venture with Ordnance Survey and Jisc Collections, Digimap for Schools provides easy access at low subscription rates to a range of current OS maps, including the most detailed mapping available for Great Britain.

We now have a dynamic map of the type and geographic spread of subscribing schools available from the service home page. Sharing this information publicly is important as it ensures that teachers feel they are part of a growing number of schools shifting to online teaching, plus enabling teachers to know who else locally is a user.

Available for free to download from the Digimap for Schools and the Times Educational Supplement websites are around 70 learning resources. They were created by expert teachers and cover all stages of the primary and secondary curricula. The resources have been downloaded 17,500 times from TES since April 2012.

In June 2013, we ran our first Digimap for Schools webinar. 55 participants signed up, most of whom indicated that it had been a useful experience. We plan to run further webinars, and schools are invited to email [email protected] if they would be interested.

UK Data Service Census SupportEDINA, as part of the UK Data Service Census Support (UKDSCS), assists users in discovering and using the resources of the 1971-2011 census of population. These resources underpin much social science endeavour in the UK and are a key asset for teaching and research.

Whilst continuing to provide the same suite of services and functionality that users are familiar with, UKDSCS provides a more holistic and consistent view of census

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resources to end users. Associated longer term changes will ultimately make it easier for users of the census resources to discover, learn about and use the full range of census resources - boundary data, aggregate statistics, interaction (flow) data and anonymised records. At the same time, the new 2011 census outputs are being released by the national census agencies and UKDSCS is making these resources available to the academic community using its existing value added services.

Continuity of access to scholarly contentThe Keepers Registry – information about archiving arrangements for scholarly journalsEnsuring future access to scholarly literature is an international priority. The Keepers Registry is a key component in the national infrastructure being created by Jisc to ensure continuity of access to scholarly resources, of which e-journals are a significant part. Developed jointly by EDINA and the ISSN International Centre in Paris, with the ISSN Register, the authoritative source for the identification of serial publications worldwide, at its heart, the Keepers Registry aggregates the metadata supplied by the world’s leading archiving agencies.

The Registry is now moving into full service. It has growing support among the library and policy community, nationally and internationally. This year invited presentations have been given at ‘UNESCO Memory of the World’; at ‘Digital Future & You’ at the Library of Congress; at IFLA 2013; and at the UKSG 2013 Annual Conference. A breakout session there provided the opportunity to present the Keepers Registry and UK LOCKSS Alliance in the wider context of e-journal archiving.

UK LOCKSS Alliance – cooperative movement of UK academic librariesLots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS) is an international initiative to safeguard scholarly content. Launched in August 2008, the UK LOCKSS Alliance (UKLA) is a cooperative movement of UK academic libraries that are committed to identify, negotiate, and build local archives of material that librarians and academic scholars deem significant. EDINA leads the provision of support for the UKLA.

This year an investigation has taken place into a Consortial Managed Archive (CMA), a shared service to support continuing access built around a UK Private LOCKSS Network. This model has the potential to serve several functions and user communities.

A use case and prototype for a CMA for open access content was developed jointly with the UK RepositoryNet+ project. A proposal for the Consortial Managed Archive for Subscription Content was put to and supported by the Electronic Information Resources Working Group (EIRWG).

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Making the digital library workSUNCAT and OpenURL Router – strategic shared content and middleware servicesMaking the digital library work has been a Jisc priority for many years. Developed at EDINA, SUNCAT is a strategic shared service comprising an aggregation of metadata about journals and serials (especially in print and electronic format). It aggregates, de-duplicates and adds value, saving time and resources: loan requests can be verified and all users can find out which institutions hold particular journals. CLs can also download MARC21 records to improve the bibliographical quality of local records. A preview version of the forthcoming new interface was announced at UKSG.

SUNCAT supports national infrastructure and community initiatives, including KB+. UK Research Reserve members are provided with a specialised service to assist decision making on the retention and disposal of print journals.

OpenURL resolvers source the ‘appropriate copy’ of an article for any particular user using local subscription information. OpenURL Router from EDINA is a central registry of resolvers that re-routes requests to the appropriate OpenURL resolver for each user. It is used in SUNCAT to provide access to the full text of articles. Strategic middleware for the effective operation of library products, it makes the management of links between bibliographic services and resolvers at institutions faster and simpler.

Subscription managementMultimedia and educationKnowledgeBase + - shared knowledge baseThis is a high profile activity for Jisc and the UK library community. HEFCE has provided funding to create a shared service knowledge base, KB+, for UK academic libraries to support the management of e-resources, including publication, licence and subscription management information, usage statistics, alerting services, and workflow management tools. Jisc Collections is leading this work, with EDINA a member of the project team contributing to its development. KB+ is a product of the work SCONUL carried out in 2009 into shared services to support the UK academic community.

EDINA is providing hosting for the KB+ platform and has also developed a reporting tool which allows the UK academic community to display and export publication information; and is implementing a licence comparison feature for release into service in Autumn 2013.

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Multimedia and educationJisc MediaHub – building digital literacy through multimedia materialsJisc MediaHub enables researchers, teachers and students in the UK to use copyright-cleared multimedia content in education and research. It offers search and browse of Jisc-licensed collections, and also links to freely-accessible and licensed content provided by others.

April 2013 saw the release of further enhancements to the service, and two new collections have also been added this year: the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge), which contains 1,000 still images; and the Bioscience ImageBank collection. There are other collections in the pipeline, including a substantial science collection to balance a predominance of arts and humanities content.

Subscriptions to Jisc MediaHub are much cheaper than commercial rates from stock libraries. Jisc Collections announced new deals for Jisc MediaHub subscribers in HE from 1 August 2013, and from 1st August 2013, the service is free to the FE sector.

Mobile internetWe are investing in the next generation of digital infrastructure to enable EDINA to support the mobility of researchers, students & teachers, and for multi-platform/device delivery.

FieldTrip GB is a data capture app from EDINA for iPhone and Android devices. It simplifies the process of capturing data in the field and is equally at home in urban and rural environments. The main features of the app include:

• Free to download and use• Bespoke mash-up of OS Open Data and OpenStreetMap• High quality background maps• Map caching to allow off-network usage• Geo-tagged data capture including images, audio and GPS tracks• Authoring Tool to allow creation of data capture forms• Record Views to visualise and share results

We have presented the app at a number of events including GISRUK 2013, the BGS hosted “Smartphone apps, maps and augmented reality” and the Higher Education Academy “Maps In The Cloud” event hosted by Google. Feedback indicates that people really like the simplicity, robustness and accessibility of the platform and we are looking forward to additional reports of use in the field!

Research Data Management materials – MANTRAThe Research Data MANTRA course is an open, online training course intended for self-paced learning by PhD students and early career researchers or by anyone interested in learning more about research data management (RDM). It is available

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from EDINA or for download as openly licensed re-usable learning objects from Jorum. It was developed by the Data Library team at EDINA in collaboration with the Institute for Academic Development, University of Edinburgh, and funded by Jisc.

During this year, two new units have been published: ‘Data protection, rights & access’; and ‘Sharing, preservation & licensing’. The materials are now based on html5 rather than Flash and can be viewed on iPads. An external evaluation report of the project was delivered in September 2012. A new home page has been designed to target users better; it will be launched in September, 2013.

Several of the Jisc Managing Research Data Programme projects have reported using MANTRA for training staff and researchers. In addition, MANTRA has been used as a basis for training liaison librarians in research data management at the University of Edinburgh. The Data Library has released the training package as a DIY training kit in RDM for librarians at other institutions.

Dissemination of the training kit through the year included: a presentation at the Jisc MRD meeting in Birmingham, 25-26 March; an invited article in ALISS; an invited tutorial at the COAR General Assembly in Istanbul; a peer-reviewed paper and presentation at DIGCURV in Florence; an invited presentation at an OpenAIRE/LIBER workshop in Ghent; and Pecha Kucha presentation at IASSIST in Cologne.

Gaelic folkloreThe Carmichael Watson collection is a major Scottish folklore website resulting from funding awarded to the Centre for Research Collections at the University of Edinburgh from the Arts and Humanities Research Council and most recently the Leverhulme Trust.

The papers of the pioneering folklorist Alexander Carmichael (1832-1912) is the foremost collection of its kind in the country: a treasure-chest of stories, songs, customs, and beliefs from the Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland. Through cataloguing, indexing, transcribing, translating, digitisation and conservation, this important collection has now been opened up and made accessible to the academic and broader community.

EDINA worked closely with the Centre for Research Collections to provide technical guidance during the archival process. The output of that process then fed data into the website, which is the public interface to the archives. EDINA designed the look and feel and the technical architecture for the website, and provided the changes necessary to support the support the new phase IV material launched in Fort William in April 2013.

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Digital infrastructure and technology

Access and identity managementUKAMF – enabling access to resources for UK education and researchThe UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research continues its sustained growth, and is the largest federation for research and education in the world.

The UK federation’s membership consists of identity providers (IdPs) at universities, colleges and schools, and service providers (SPs) offering a range of online services from academic research journals to literacy materials for schools, and from video archives to mapping data. Much of the sustained growth in the size of the UK federation has come from SPs.

EDINA operates the helpdesk for the UK federation, provides support for installation and configuration, and manages the UK federation metadata. Having been carried out in partnership with Jisc Collections, this work is now part of a more generic Access and Identity Management focus being led by Jisc.

Inter-federation workFollowing the success of the inter-federation pilot with the Irish federation Edugate, the UK federation is now also inter-federating with the US federation inCommon to provide access to the US based physics resource LIGO for researchers based in the UK.

EDINA contributed to a consultation process on EduGAIN, a European project to connect national education federations. The UK federation joined in June 2013. Development work has also been done on the metadata aggregator software. It is likely that this software will be used ultimately by EduGAIN.

The same inter-federation technology and procedures developed at EDINA are being used to provide users in Sweden and France with access to KnowledgeBase+. This work will also use eduGAIN. Jisc will be able to promote KB+ as one of the first UK services available internationally via eduGAIN.

Moonshot pilotJanet is running a Moonshot service pilot from April 2013 for 18 months. EDINA is participating in this as part of the University of Edinburgh submission. We will investigate the use of Moonshot to manage access to geospatial information.

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Advice and guidance

The user experienceHelp and support for using servicesOur User Support staff members provide expert and professional help for users of EDINA services, including the following highlights:

• Our helpdesk and support provision, which regularly receives praise from users and customers for its speed, efficiency and effectiveness;

• We launched a new website, with a fresh interface and managed in a Drupal Content Management System (CMS), and made further improvements through the year;

• We provided numerous training webinars and workshops;• The very successful and well attended Geoforum took place in London in June

2013. Once again, live blogging and social media amplification were important parts of the event;

• Extensive Digimap Collections help and support pages from the EDINA website were reviewed and incorporated into a CMS to improve change control. The information is openly available and reflects the new look and feel of the Digimap interface;

• Regular quarterly newsletters were issued throughout the year.

Sharing and reusing open educational resourcesEDINA is committed to providing open resources to assist teachers and students. During the past year:

New case studies were published, as well as video tutorials and updated interactive help pages, to support the interface improvements in the Digimap Collections.

Social media outreach and knowledge exchangeEDINA undertakes outreach in a number of areas, including sharing our expertise in using social media, through:

• Dialogue with, and support for, EDINA service and project users, stakeholders and partners through channels including blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc.;

• Collaboration, invited and submitted presentations, delivery of workshops and training, provision of advice, amplification of events including symposia, conferences, hack days etc., and participation in studies, e.g. AHRC Crowd Sourcing Study.

Our Social Media Officer is a Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Spreading the Benefits of Digital Participation Inquiry; a Member of the Student Communications Task Group, part of the University’s three-year Enhancing Student Support

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initiative, providing specialist advice to non-University of Edinburgh institutions; and a Member of the Journal of Open Research Software Editorial Board. She has published widely on social media, including contributions to books and journals, and teaches on the University’s MSc in Digital Education.

Assessing user satisfactionWe made available online surveys of nine of our services from October 2012 to January 2013, and in March 2013 we published the results at our website. A large majority again found the services easy to use and saved them time, and said that they would recommend them to others. As part of our push for quality improvement, we have again examined users’ suggestions for improvements and will publish at our website what we intend to do to address them.

The customer/stakeholder experienceHelp and support for decision-makers and stakeholdersEDINA acts on behalf of Jisc and the sector in the development of the academic Spatial Data Infrastructure and in Access Management. It undertakes awareness raising activities and provides advice on INSPIRE for universities, provides advice to Jisc, and this year has worked with Jisc to prepare the UK federation for joining the European EduGAIN inter-federation. This builds a “trust fabric” that will ultimately open up the range of educational and research services available to users, while increasing the number of users that can use services, thus lowering costs per user.

The EDINA helpdesk is the first port of call for decision-makers and support staff working in universities, colleges and schools. Queries by email or telephone are handled promptly, with onward referral if required to experts within and outside EDINA.

Our quarterly newsletter keeps site representatives and others updated with news about our services. Produced in print and online, it is very well received.

Workshops and webinars aimed at “training the trainer” are delivered all year round; and we welcome invitations to hold workshops at events throughout the country. We collaborate closely with Jisc’s Regional Support Centres and hold joint events with them.

The Online Visual Dashboard (OVD) project is aimed at giving EDINA the capacity to produce a customer-focused service assessment capacity. For institutional service managers the OVD will provide answers to frequently asked questions, such as:

• “How many printed maps did my institution create between September and December 2012?”

• “What has been the value of the data downloaded this financial year?”• “Has this service provided value for money?”

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An openly licensed DIY training kit has been added within the MANTRA website to include everything that a small group of librarians anywhere would need to conduct their own training in research data management. Released as an output from the Data Library’s training sessions with the University of Edinburgh liaison librarians, this includes the schedule used by the University and podcasts of speakers’ slideshows with audio narration to be used in the absence of local expert speakers.

Providing value for moneyWe are now sending per-institution savings to Digimap site representatives. Researchers, teachers and students interested in knowing these figures should ask their site representative, and if not known to them, ask our helpdesk ([email protected]).

The figures calculated do not include the value of any of the support materials, training courses and help desk facilities that are all part of Digimap and other services run by EDINA.

Improved technical reliabilityEDINA infrastructure benefits from synergy with the University of Edinburgh. The University possesses a large scale computing infrastructure and leveraging marginal use of that is cost effective for Jisc and our customers. The University and EDINA continue to monitor the comparative cost of external cloud hosting and currently University hosting remains significantly less expensive.

Migration of storage to the new Compellant Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructure has continued this year. This will result in significant cost savings and performance improvements and provides a vendor-neutral and long-term storage solution. Significant performance improvements have been observed.

EDINA also shares backup infrastructure with the University, and incremental upgrades to this have been taking place and will continue over the rest of 2013.

Capacity as Jisc centre of expertiseEDINA enables JISC to address sector priorities and support national strategies. Its primary advantages lie in economy of scale and having a critical mass of skill/talent, utilising a prominent university’s infrastructure and broader support network, yielding cost effective and highly competitive products at marginal cost. Running high demand services against Service Level Agreements with innovation challenges develops well rounded engineering capability and the valuable capacity to transition projects to services, normally a high risk activity.

EDINA provides high quality, cost-effective helpdesk, training and support services, and has a reputation for excellent user support, which we seek to maintain and improve upon each year. Various staff members at EDINA are recognised nationally/internationally as experts in their fields and have links with many important organisations.

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Research and development

Repository services and open accessUK RepositoryNet+- infrastructure for open access research literatureIn July EDINA completed work to help Jisc rationalise and put onto a sustainable footing the considerable investment that it had made over the past 10 years in shared services projects for Open Access and institutional repositories.

Known as UK RepositoryNet+ (RepNet), this two-year project investigated and set-up a socio-technical infrastructure capable of supporting a suite of services for the deposit, curation and exposure of Open Access research literature. This included processes that would enable the services to work together according to agreed (ITIL) terminology and service level definitions, as well as processes to gather requirements and meet these in a coordinated way.

The RepNet provides links to the components, information about the work undertaken, and a collection of the outputs produced during the extensive outreach and stakeholder engagement activity. Jisc will be taking the co-ordination of this work forward from 1 August 2013.

ORI and RJ Broker – components provided to UK Repository Net+EDINA contributes two components to the RepNet infrastructure, which are both standalone middleware tools. The Organisation and Repositories Identification (ORI) tool is designed to identify academic organisations and their associated repositories, while Repository Junction Broker (RJ Broker) handles the delivery of research articles to from data suppliers such as publishers and subject repositories to multiple institutional repositories.

End-to end use cases demonstrated successful transfers between two data suppliers (Nature Publishing Group and Europe Pub Med Central), the broker and selected individual repositories. The technology deployed is of great interest to Jisc and others. Jisc has invited EDINA to continue to provide these components to Repository Shared Services from 1 August 2013.

6th Annual Repository Fringe, Edinburgh, 31 July – 2 August 2013Repository Fringe, organised by EDINA, the Digital Curation Centre and the University of Edinburgh, provides an annual forum for repository administrators, developers/coders, and information professionals to interact and explore the application of innovative technologies including cultural developments (such as research data management principles and open data, social media, altmetrics) to their on-going repository work in a relaxed and informal environment.

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It draws on alternative meeting formats such as ‘the unconference’, ‘hackdays’, and the wired conference to create an active, participative and eclectic atmosphere within which to share ideas. A festival mood is also enhanced by co-location with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which helps to attract national and international delegates to the forum. As ever, social media was used to amplify the event for the benefit of attendees and those who could not be present.

Unique, long-term identifiers for digital contentEZID UKEZID (easy-eye-dee) is a service offered by the University of California Curation Center (UC3), part of the California Digital Library (CDL). EZID makes it easy to create and manage unique, long-term identifiers for digital content.

Collaboration between Jisc, EDINA and UC3, this project is investigating and developing the infrastructure which might support an EZID UK service. In particular how individuals and organisations can more easily acquire long-term identifiers without the need to subscribe to a larger service package. This will lower the barriers for individuals and smaller organisations acquiring such identifiers. The intention is to further encourage self-publishing and other forms of scholarly communications, including the work of amateur scholars, and open access publication.

Crowdsourcing environmental dataCOBWEBWork is well under way on the Citizen Observatory Web (COBWEB) project, which started in November 2012 for four years. EDINA is leading this EU-funded research project.

The main aim is to create a test-bed environment which will enable citizens living within UNESCO designated Biosphere Reserves to collect environmental data using mobile devices. Information of use for policy formation and delivery will be generated by quality-controlling the crowdsourced data and aggregating with Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) type reference data from authoritative sources.

In the process the project aims to build up shared expertise in these new and developing technologies and understand how crowdsourcing/citizen science techniques combined with SDI-like initiatives like the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), INSPIRE and UK Location Programme can deliver both societal and commercial benefits.

COBWEB is approaching the end of its first year. This milestone marks the end of initial design and stakeholder engagement. In the forthcoming year, we will now start implementing the COBWEB platform and building the first demonstrator(s) focused on the Dyfi Biosphere Reserve in Wales.

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Breaking down barriers in producing and using cartogramsCartogrammarThe Cartogrammar project, funded by ESRC, attempts to break down some of the barriers in the creation and use of cartograms. A cartogram is a map on which geography and statistical information are shown in diagrammatic form. Cartogrammar has delivered both a production strength generic service and an associated toolset for the benefit of a broad social science audience.

The website and Application Programming Interface (API) developed at EDINA is aimed at circumventing the need to apply complex tools, specialist knowledge and a significant computational overhead in order to produce a cartogram. It uses a ‘wizard’ like workflow to handle the uploading of user supplied data and to capture the cartogram generation parameters. It also hosts a gallery of user contributed cartograms in order that they may be showcased and reused by others.

The project was completed in September 2012. Cartogrammar has been tested successfully with some of the 2011 early census release data for England. The website also includes a user guide and some sample data files to assist in getting started producing cartograms.

Historic metadata captureIn July 2012 EDINA embarked on a project in partnership with the National Library of Scotland (NLS) to capture and deploy metadata relating to the inclusion of survey dates for two historic map series in the NLS collection covering England and Wales. The series that were chosen were the six inches to the mile (1840s-1940’s) and the 25 inches to the mile (1850s – 1940s) County Series.

This project is complementary to work already undertaken in 2009 to capture and deploy survey dates from historical Scottish series. As proven by the 2009 Scottish project, it is expected that this recent project will lead to significantly improved metadata with more appropriate and accurate ‘date’ information presented to users.

Currently the only date information held by EDINA for these series relates to the publication date of the map. The addition of survey dates will allow more accurate dating of the map resulting in the historical map data becoming more usable for research and teaching purposes. The data capture was completed on schedule, and at present the data is going through a quality assurance stage before being uploaded to Digimap where the data is planned to be made available via Ancient Roam.

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Trading ConsequencesTrading Consequences is a collaborative project between partners in the UK and Canada and is part of the Digging Into Data programme supported by both UK and international funders. It runs to December 2013.

The project has joined two leading-edge areas of historical enquiry (transnational history and environmental history) with innovative techniques developed in geo-referencing and visualisation. The team consisting of historians, computational linguistics specialists and computer scientists have explored how to visualise global trade in commodities during the 19th-century and the associated environmental consequences.

Using a variety of digitised texts, this project extracts information on primary resources harvested, mined, traded and consumed in the 19th century, geo-locates the references to these resources and correlates ‘these mentions’ with a set of potential environmental impacts. The general goal has been to adapt geo-referencing and visualisation techniques for the uses of historians researching with large quantities of textual data. For the computational linguists and computer scientists, historians have served as a test group for honing techniques for broader application and refinement. The exchange of information on assumptions and techniques has also demonstrated some of the limitations of the research techniques.

Time travel for the scholarly webHiberlinkCitation of sources is a fundamental part of scholarship. The Hiberlink project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, aims to assess the extent of ‘reference rot’ in a vast corpus of online scholarly work using text mining and information extracting tools. The ‘reference rot’ problem occurs whenever the original version of a link resource is not available anymore.

The problem has two aspects. First, the http:// link that references a resource may no longer work. Second, the content at the end of the link may have evolved and may even have become dramatically different from when originally referenced. So when eventually an online scholarly work is revisited and its references are double checked by a researcher in order to confirm evidence, establish context, inform policy and decision making, or for any other practical purpose, the original information referenced on websites or in online databases may have changed or even ceased to exist; hampering or preventing the research process.

We also aim to identify practical approaches to support pro-active archiving and time stamps in references in order to improve continued access to scholarly work for future generations of researchers.

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Online hack eventWill’s WorldIn December 2012, EDINA held a week long online hack to encourage innovative uses of the Open Access registry of online Shakespeare resources previously developed by the Will’s World project. This experimental event made extensive use of social media tools to run the event online and remotely including Google+ Hangouts: a free video conferencing tool allowing up to nine participants to join a call with live streaming and archiving to YouTube. The quality and diversity of the hacks impressed the judges.

The use of social media as the main support for communication helped in creating a well-documented trail of the event. The event wiki, project blog, YouTube channel, Pinterest boards, Tweeter and Google+ feeds were used throughout to broadcast the event and provide a catch-up facility to the participants. They remain available after the event and act as an account of the hack.

Discover EDINADiscover EDINA attempts to address a number of the key problem areas identified by the Jisc Resource Discovery Taskforce and the Discovery programme, specifically services that support the creation and enhancement of metadata, enhancements to existing aggregations, and services that support more effective reuse of metadata.

As part of the open data strand of the SUNCAT part of the project, we have made available individual library records that we have had agreement to release. It was decided to adopt an opt-in policy. This approach was taken since it was felt that CLs needed to be fully aware of the commitment they were making and to have the opportunity to specify any particular restrictions. In the event most of the participants availed themselves of the opportunity to specify, unambiguously, which data they were agreeing to being made open. Information about licensing and the technical approaches taken may be found in the blog.

The primary purpose of the Tagger strand of the project is to assist in enriching and exposing ‘hidden’ metadata within resources – primarily images and multimedia files. Images for example embed a lot of descriptive and technical metadata within the file itself, which may be carrying a ‘secret’ payload of information, some of which may be potentially compromising. Tagger helps by providing tools to expose those hidden features and makes it easy to review, edit and manage the intrinsic metadata routinely bundled in resources. It has concentrated on, but not been limited to, geotags.

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Improving business intelligenceThe Online Visual Dashboard (OVD) project is aimed at giving EDINA the capacity to produce a customer-focused service assessment capacity.

Using Digimap for Schools as an exemplar, all the required data sources have been mapped and harvested to a central database to allow the presentation of key information sets. We have examined the data visualisation options and how to present the most relevant statistics in support of improved internal business intelligence.

Phase 1 of the project has finished. It is intended that the project will be included as part of an on-going internal ‘Efficiencies’ project, as business intelligence and service monitoring are important strategic tools for both EDINA and its stakeholders. It is intended that dashboard functionality will be rolled out to other services throughout the following 24 months. It is expected that there will be a wide range of users for this service, including institutional service managers, budget holders, EDINA service managers, and Jisc Collections.

Exploiting cloud-based technology for future service deliveryThe aim of the Cloud WorkBench (CWB) project is to build capacity, experience and facility within EDINA to exploit Cloud based technology for the purposes of service delivery, economic long-term sustainability and compatibility with emerging UK and global digital infrastructures. Cloud technologies have the potential to be strategically important and it is important therefore that EDINA has experience in using and deploying Cloud based services that it manages and develops.

Phase 1 of the project has used a teaching-based case study, tackling a real world problem from the Geospatial Information Services domain. The project will offer Digimap users a personal workbench where they can easily access all their Digimap data alongside a range of geospatial software tools in their own persistent personal cloud space that is already pre-configured and authenticated. We are using OSGeo Live as a source for the virtual machines.

Cloud Workbench now offers a management console giving a supervisor the ability to launch multiple instances of the service. It can be configured to load a selection of software such as PostgresSQL/PostGIS, Geoserver GDAL and Spatial Lite. Users can load their own data and save them for reuse. Security is managed through the use of SSH Keys and single sign on via the UK Access Management Federation.

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4. Meeting our strategic goals in 2012/13

EDINA’s Strategy governing our activity over the last academic year was that for 2011/14. We published an updated Strategy for 2013/16 in April 2013.

We aimed to provide added value, high quality, cost-effective services, leveraged by R&D, enhancement activity and engagement with others

What we did:

• See our ‘Stories of Contribution and Success’• See our Community Reports (edina.ac.uk/about/docs.html)• See the News items at our website and our quarterly newsletter• See our Blogs (blogs.edina.ac.uk)• Ask us anything else you want to know – contact [email protected]

We aimed to enhance EDINA’s resource base through staff talent, technology and effective management of resources

What we did:

• Recruited, retained, trained and developed a flexible complement of skilled staff. 7 staff members were recruited during 2012/13, bringing valued knowledge and experience. EDINA has 89 staff and works with 3 consultants under contract.

• Developed and maintained our IT capability. See Customer/Stakeholder Experience

• Provided effective governance and management of resources. EDINA’s Management Board met three times, in November 2012, March 2013 and June 2013. Regular financial and performance reports were made to the University of Edinburgh and Jisc as required.

We aimed to sustain and develop a well-founded UK national academic data centre, offering value for money to the community

What we did:

• Generated sufficient funding to meet our strategic goals in the medium- to long-term.

• Managed appropriately our financial and legal liabilities. EDINA met all of its staffing obligations and external compliance requirements. A detailed Risk Register was maintained.

• Aimed to ensure long-term sustainability of activity, resource and finance. EDINA has a Business Continuity Fund to support sustainability and long-term planning.

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5. Strategic context and the future

StrategyEDINA published its Strategy for 2013/16 in April 2013. In it we noted that digital technologies are and will remain key enablers of the changes necessary to support flexible delivery of education, of research contributing to economic growth and prosperity, and of engagement with business and the community.

Jisc and EDINA offer services that assist institutions deal with some of their most pressing concerns, including reducing costs, research excellence, improving student outcomes and meeting their expectations, and achieving competitive advantage.

EDINA currently has three forward planning horizons: business planning for 2013/15; strategic objectives for December 2014; and a 2020 vision. Later this year we will describe strategic objectives for December 2016.

Business planningJisc is the main sponsor and funder of EDINA, and is now a registered charity. Greater clarity has been forthcoming during the past year on the role that EDINA will play in the Jisc family in future, and it has been variously described as a Jisc centre of expertise, Jisc centre for online services, and Jisc Data Service Centre. One of these descriptions will no doubt emerge as the favourite over the coming year!

2014/15 will see a change in the charging models to fund Jisc infrastructure, data and content services. At the time of writing this Review, this new economic model is still under discussion at Jisc. We expect academic year 2013/14 to be a further year of change implementation towards the new model, including consultation with the sector. EDINA continues to provide ‘business as usual’ and work towards its strategic objectives for 2014.

Strategic objectives for 2014EDINA has identified 12 strategic objectives for December 2014, along with actions and enabling measures. They are detailed in our Strategy for 2013/16 and we are well under way with progress towards achieving these objectives.

2020 VisionAt the time of writing this Review, EDINA is developing detailed personas for the 2020 Vision, in which we are “inhabiting the minds” of our stakeholders, customers, service users and developers to see what they expect to be happening then. Once we have these ready, we will publish the Vision.

EDINA’s 2013/16 Strategy is viewed as a ‘staging post’ on the way to 2020.

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6. EDINA Management Board

As part of the Funding Agreement between Jisc and the University of Edinburgh, EDINA is required to have a Management Board. Its roles are to:

• Support and advise the management of EDINA• Oversee the strategic direction and operation of EDINA

Its responsibilities are to:

• Oversee the progress of EDINA, receiving reports on its performance in meeting its obligations under the Funding Agreement and Service Level Agreement

• Consider and approve EDINA’s business plans, as required by the Funding Agreement

• Receive and consider representations that Jisc might make under the terms of the Funding Agreement

• Oversee and support EDINA in its promotion to the wider community• Ensure that EDINA fulfils its obligations set out in the Funding Agreement in all

material respects

ChairProfessor Charles Oppenheim, Independent Consultant, formerly Professor of Information Science and Head of Department, Loughborough University [to June 2013]

Dr Mark Brown, Independent Professional, formerly Librarian, University of Southampton [from June 2013]

Jisc representativesMr Norman Wiseman, Head of Services, Jisc [to June 2013]

Ms Lorraine Estelle, Executive Director Jisc Digital Content and Discovery and Divisional CEO Jisc Collections [from June 2013]

University of EdinburghProfessor Jeff Haywood, Vice Principal Knowledge Management, Chief Information Officer and Librarian of the University of Edinburgh

Director of EDINAMr Peter Burnhill

MembersDr Mark Brown, Librarian, University of Southampton [to June 2013; now Chair of the Management Board]

Ms Lorraine Estelle, Executive Director Jisc Digital Content and Discovery and Divisional CEO Jisc Collections [to June 2013; now Jisc representative]

Ms Elizabeth McHugh, Electronic Resources Manager, University of Highlands and Islands; representing the JIBS user group

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AttendeesMs Rachel Bruce, Innovation Director, Digital Infrastructure, Jisc

Mr David Utting, Director of Service Relationships, Jisc [to May 2013]

Ms Christine Rees, Head of Bibliographic and Multimedia Services, EDINA

Dr Conor G. Smyth, Head of Research and Geodata Services, EDINA

Ms Moira Massey, Head of Cross-Service Strategy and Planning, EDINA

Ms Ingrid Earp, Senior Administrator, EDINA

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Appendix 1: EDINA Services during Aug 2012-July 2013

Reference & Multimedia

Film, Images & SoundJISC MediaHubJISC MediaHub enables cross-searching and exploration of over 1,300,000 items of TV news, documentary films, still images and classical music. Part of the JISC eCollections service that provides a single point of access to several major multimedia archives licensed by JISC Collections, it also allows users to search and link out to external third-party media collections.

Journal CataloguesSUNCATThe UK national catalogue of serials has two principal aims: to be the key resource for locating serials titles in UK research libraries, and to be a source of high quality records to help upgrading of local catalogues. SUNCAT holds information on the serials held in over 90 of the largest research and university libraries in the UK.

SALSERThe union catalogue of serials holdings for Scottish universities, the municipal research libraries of Edinburgh and Glasgow, numerous smaller Scottish research libraries and the National Library of Scotland enables users to not only discover which serials are held where; they can also connect to the participating libraries' catalogues for more detailed holdings information.

Historical MaterialsStatistical Accounts of ScotlandThe online version of the full-text of two complete surveys of Scottish parishes conducted in the 1790s and 1830s, published as the First and New Statistical Accounts of Scotland, provides a record of many aspects of life in Scotland at the time.

Article ReferencesLand Life LeisureCovering current developments in agriculture and all rural topics, the database originated in the academic and research community led by a team at Aberystwyth University. The contributing indexers were Coleg Sir Gar, Bicton, Harper Adams, Pershore, Myerscough and Royal Agricultural Colleges.

Repositories and Journal PreservationOpenDepot.orgAn international facility to deposit peer-reviewed papers, articles, and book chapters (e-prints).

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UK LOCKSS AllianceAn international initiative to ensure libraries remain central to the process of scholarly information management, the UK LOCKSS Alliance is a cooperative movement of UK academic libraries that are committed to identify, negotiate, and build local archives of material that librarians and academic scholars deem significant.

CLOCKSSAn international preservation scheme for scholarly publications based on a distributed long-term archive network of publishers’ current and past content. The content is stored in secure LOCKSS-managed storage under the stewardship of globally-distributed research and university libraries.

The Keepers RegistryAn online record of global stewardship by organisations that have taken responsibility for ensuring long-tern continuity of access to international scholarship. The service contains a record of what journal titles each organisation is preserving, together with a statement of the extent of the content that is held.

Repository Junction BrokerAssists Open Access deposit into and interoperability between existing repository services. The discovery tool allows institutions or authors to be matched to appropriate repositories.

Maps & Data

GeoData DiscoveryGoGeoEnables users to discover geospatial information, data and services for education and research, and to learn about geospatial metadata.

Maps & DatasetsDigimap Ordnance Survey CollectionDelivers Ordnance Survey map data to UK HE and FE. Data is available either to download to use with appropriate application software such as geographical information systems or computer aided design, or as maps generated online. Allows users to view, annotate and print maps of any location in Great Britain at a series of predefined scales.

Historic DigimapOffers historic Ordnance Survey maps of Great Britain to UK HE and FE, generated by Landmark Information Group. The collection includes maps at a range of scales published between 1843 and 1996. Users can print maps and download them as geo-referenced images for use in geographical information systems or image processing software.

Geology DigimapDelivers geological maps and data from the British Geological Survey (BGS). Users can view maps through a web browser, save maps for printing and download the geological map data for use in geographical information systems.

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Marine DigimapProvides marine and coastal zone mapping and data products from SeaZone Solutions Ltd. Users can browse, view and print online marine maps and download thematic marine geographical information for use in geographical information systems.

Digimap for SchoolsOnline mapping service for use by teachers and pupils in schools, providing easy access to a range of current Ordnance Survey maps.

UK Data Service Census Support Provides access to a variety of facilities and tools by which users can use a full collection of digitised boundary datasets and supporting datasets, including geographic look-up tables. The main group of boundaries correspond to the various levels of 1971 to 2011 Census geography designed for spatial visualisation and analysis of Census statistics.

agcensusDelivers agricultural census data for Great Britain as grid square estimates for a geographic area for a particular year at a specified resolution. The spatial distribution of census items for a given region and resolution for a particular year can also be mapped.

Sharing DataShareGeo OpenA spatial data repository that promotes data sharing between creators and users. It is the place where researchers, students and lecturers at UK universities or colleges can deposit data for anyone to download and use.

GeoDoc A tool to create and publish standards-compliant geospatial metadata.

Research Data MANTRAOnline learning materials reflecting the best practice in research data management, available through an open licence for re-using, rebranding, repurposing.

Middleware and Infrastructure ServicesUK Access Management Federation for Education and ResearchFacilitates federated access management in the UK. Operated by EDINA and JISC Collections.

OpenURL RouterDesigned to help service providers solve the appropriate-copy problem by routing an OpenURL query to the OpenURL Resolver being used by a given user’s institutional library. The OpenURL Router links bibliographic services to full text via OpenURL Resolvers.

Digimap OpenStreamA Web Map Service (WMS) offering Ordnance Survey OpenData products via an application programming interface (API).

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UnlockProvides a facility to extract and locate place-names found in text documents and metadata. It also provides a search for place-names, locations and shapes across different sources of geographic information.

EDINA Developer CornerCode and documentation shared publicly by the technical teams behind EDINA services and projects.

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Appendix 2: Total number of monthly logins for EDINA JISC services

Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Total

Digimap OS Collection

9496 14060 49068 49430 26034 39978 49332 36695 30446 23214 12176 12234 352163

Geology Digimap

1387 1987 7406 6714 3102 4555 7647 5374 3128 2764 1822 1614 47500

Historic Digimap

3057 4842 13310 11690 7073 10435 11369 7825 7009 5895 4022 4087 90614

Land Life & Leisure

62 100 279 163 121 292 283 197 192 124 43 24 1880

Marine Digimap

155 184 583 522 336 579 756 691 361 219 136 221 4743

MediaHub 4388 5275 6576 7315 4527 6635 10006 7503 5878 2657 1963 1482 64205

SUNCAT Open

8298 14588 15030 8209 6831 8731 8109 15221 11967 9142 11196 9408 126730

Monthly total

26843 41036 92252 84043 48024 71205 87502 73506 58981 44015 31358 29070 687835

0 20000 40000 60000 80000 100000 120000

August

October

December

February

April

June

Sessionss

Mon

ths

Monthly sessions to EDINA Jisc services

2012-‐2013

2011-‐2012

2010-‐2011

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Appendix 3: Registered Institutions

Subscribing Institutions to EDINA ServicesThe number of institutional licences in 2012/13 for the Jisc-sponsored EDINA services is shown below, in the context of uptake in the previous four years:

Reference and Multimedia

Land Life Leisure *SUNCAT OpenURL Router LOCKSS JISC MediaHub2008/2009 41 70 94 18 -2009/2010 39 77 95 18 -2010/2011 26 77 100 20 -2011/2012 25 86 105 16 1642012/2013 22 91 111 15 199

Maps and Data

Digimap- OS Historic Digimap Geology Digimap Marine Digimap2008/2009 161 72 43 152009/2010 151 74 47 162010/2011 144 76 50 162011/2012 147 78 51 182012/2013 153 82 56 22

*Contributing libraries, who have uploaded their institution’s serials’ data to SUNCAT.

List of Registered Institutions with the services for which they are registered

Digimap-OS Geology Digimap

Historic Digimap

Marine Digimap

JISC MediaHub

Land Life Leisure

UK LOCKSS Alliance

SUNCAT UKRR

Aberdeen College *

Aberdeen University * *

Aberystwyth University * * * * * * *

Alton College *

Anglia Ruskin University * *

Anniesland College *

Arts University Bournemouth * * *

Askham Bryan College * * * *

Aston University * *

Bangor University * * * * *

Barnsley College *

Bath University *

BBSRC *

Bicton College *

Bilborough College * *

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Historic Digimap

Marine Digimap

JISC MediaHub

Land Life Leisure

UK LOCKSS Alliance

SUNCAT UKRR

Birkbeck College, University of London

* * *

Birmingham City University * *

Birmingham University * *

Bishop Burton College *

Blackpool and the Fylde College * * *

Bolton University *

Borders College *

Bournemouth and Poole College *

Bournemouth University * * * *

Bradford College *

Bradford University *

Bridgend College *

Bridgwater College * * *

Brighton, Hove & Sussex Sixth Form College

* *

Bristol University *

British Film Insititute *

British Library *

Bromley College *

Brooklands College *

Calderdale College *

Cambridge University * *

Canterbury Christ Church University

* *

Canterbury College * *

Cardiff University * * * * * * *

Cardonald College *

Carnegie College * *

Central College Nottingham *

Central Sussex College *

Chelmsford College *

Chesterfield College * *

Chichester College *

Cirencester College *

City and Islington College *

City College Norwich *

City Lit *

City of Bath College *

City of Bristol College * * *

City of Glasgow College *

City of Sunderland College * *

City University * * * * *

Clydebank College *

Colchester Institute *

Coleg Sir Gar *

Cornwall College * *

Coulsdon College *

Courtauld Institute of Art * *

Coventry University * *

Cranfield University * * * *

Craven College *

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Historic Digimap

Marine Digimap

JISC MediaHub

Land Life Leisure

UK LOCKSS Alliance

SUNCAT UKRR

Croydon College *

Cumbernauld College *

De Montfort University * * * *

Derby College *

Doncaster College *

Dumfries and Galloway College *

Dundee College *

Dundee University *

Durham University * * * * * *

East Berkshire College *

East Norfolk Sixth Form College *

East Riding College *

Easton and Otley College * *

Edge Hill University * * * *

Edinburgh College *

Edinburgh College of Art *

Edinburgh Napier University * *

Edinburgh University * *

Elmwood College *

Essex University *

Exeter University *

Farnborough Sixth Form College * *

Forth Valley College of Further and Higher Education

*

Franklin College *

Glasgow Caledonian University * * * * *

Glasgow School of Art * * *

Glasgow University * *

Gloucestershire College *

Goldsmiths College, University of London

*

Gower College Swansea * *

Greenhead College *

Guildford College of FE & HE *

Hadlow College *

Halesowen College * * *

Harlow College *

Harper Adams University * *

Hartpury College * *

Havering College of Further and Higher Education

*

Hereford Sixth Form College *

Heriot-Watt University * *

Holy Cross College * *

Huddersfield New College * *

Hull College * *

Hull University *

Hungtingdon-shire Regional College

*

Imperial College London * * * *

Institute of Engineering and Technology

*

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Historic Digimap

Marine Digimap

JISC MediaHub

Land Life Leisure

UK LOCKSS Alliance

SUNCAT UKRR

Instution of Civil Engineers *

Isle of Wight College *

Keele University * * * *

Kent University *

Kidderminster College *

King’s College London * * * * * *

Kingston University * * * *

Lancaster and Morecambe College

*

Lancaster University * * * * *

Leeds City College *

Leeds Metropolitan University * * *

Leeds Trinity University College *

Leeds University * *

Leicester College *

Leicester University *

Lincoln College * *

Liverpool Hope University College

* *

Liverpool John Moores University

* * * *

Liverpool University * *

London Business School *

London Metropolitan University * *

London School of Economics and Political Science

* * * * * *

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

* *

London South Bank University * * *

Loughborough University * * * * *

Manchester Metropolitan University

* * * *

Manchester Public Libraries *

Manchester University * *

Mid Cheshire College *

Middlesex University *

Milton Keynes College *

Motherwell College *

Moulton College * * * *

Myerscough College *

National Art Library *

National Institute for Medical Research

*

National Library of Scotland *

National Library of Wales *

Natural History Museum * *

NERC *

New College Nottingham * * *

New College Pontefract *

New College Stamford *

New College, Swindon * * * *

New College, Telford *

Newcastle University * *

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Historic Digimap

Marine Digimap

JISC MediaHub

Land Life Leisure

UK LOCKSS Alliance

SUNCAT UKRR

Newcastle-under-Lyme College *

Newman University *

Northampton College *

Northern Regional College *

Northumbria University * * * *

Nottingham Trent University * * * * *

Nottingham University *

Oaklands College *

Oldham Sixth Form College *

Open University * * * * * * * *

Oxford and Cherwell Valley College

*

Oxford Brookes University * * * *

Oxford University * *

Palmer’s College * *

Peter Symonds’ College *

Peterborough Regional College *

Petroc College *

Priestley College *

Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College

*

Queen Mary, University of London

* * * * *

Queen’s University Belfast *

Reading University * *

Reaseheath College *

Redbridge College *

Reid Kerr College *

Richmond-upon-Thames College *

Riverside College Halton *

Robert Gordon University * *

Roehampton University *

Rose Bruford College *

Rotherham College of Arts & Technology

*

Royal Agricultural University * *

Royal Asiatic Society *

Royal Botanic Gardens *

Royal College of Art * *

Royal College of Music

Royal College of Nursing *

Royal Geographical Society *

Royal Holloway, University of London

* * *

Royal Institute of British Architects

*

Royal Museums Greenwich *

Royal Society *

Royal Society of Medicine *

School of Oriental and African Studies

*

Science and Technology Facilities Council

*

Scottish Agricultural College *

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Historic Digimap

Marine Digimap

JISC MediaHub

Land Life Leisure

UK LOCKSS Alliance

SUNCAT UKRR

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

*

Scottish National Gallery Research Library

*

Senate House Libraries * *

Sheffield Hallam University * * * * *

Sheffield University * *

Shrewsbury College of Arts & Technology

*

Sir George Monoux College *

Society of Antiquities *

Society of Friends *

Solihull College *

Solihull Sixth Form College * *

Somerset College of Arts and Technology

* -

South Downs College *

South Eastern Regional College *

South Essex College of Further and Higher Education

*

South Staffordshire College *

South Thames College *

South Worcestershire College *

Southampton Solent University * *

Southampton University * *

Sparsholt College, Hampshire * *

St Andrews University * *

St Brendan’s Sixth Form College *

St Charles Catholic Sixth Form College

*

St David’s Catholic College *

St Mary’s University College *

Stafford College *

Staffordshire University *

Stirling University *

Stow College * *

Stratford-upon-Avon College *

Strathclyde University *

Sussex University * *

Swansea Metropolitan University

*

Swansea University * * *

Tate Library *

The Adam Smith College, Fife *

The College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London

* *

The College of West Anglia *

The Oldham College *

The Queen’s University of Belfast

*

The Sixth Form College, Colchester

* *

The South Gloucester-shire and Stroud College

* *

Totton College *

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Historic Digimap

Marine Digimap

JISC MediaHub

Land Life Leisure

UK LOCKSS Alliance

SUNCAT UKRR

Trafford College *

Trinity College Dublin *

University Campus Suffolk *

University College Dublin *

University College Falmouth * * * * *

University College London * * * * * * *

University College Plymouth St Mark & St John

*

University for the Creative Arts * *

University of Aberdeen * *

University of Bath * * *

University of Bedfordshire *

University of Birmingham * * * * *

University of Bolton *

University of Bradford * * *

University of Brighton *

University of Bristol * * *

University of Cambridge * *

University of Central Lancashire * * *

University of Chester * * *

University of Cumbria * * * * *

University of Derby *

University of Dundee * * *

University of East Anglia * * *

University of East London * * *

University of Edinburgh * * * * * *

University of Essex *

University of Exeter * * * *

University of Glamorgan *

University of Glasgow * * * *

University of Gloucestershire * *

University of Greenwich * * *

University of Hertfordshire * * *

University of Huddersfield * *

University of Hull * * * * *

University of Kent * * * *

University of Leeds * * *

University of Leicester * * * *

University of Lincoln *

University of Liverpool * * * * *

University of London Research Library Services

* *

University of Manchester * * * * *

University of Newcastle upon Tyne

* * * * *

University of Northampton * *

University of Nottingham * * * *

University of Oxford * * * * *

University of Plymouth * * * * *

University of Portsmouth * * * *

University of Reading * * * *

University of Salford * * *

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Historic Digimap

Marine Digimap

JISC MediaHub

Land Life Leisure

UK LOCKSS Alliance

SUNCAT UKRR

University of Sheffield * * *

University of Southampton * * *

University of St Andrews * * * *

University of Stirling * * * *

University of Strathclyde * *

University of Surrey * *

University of Sussex * * *

University of Teesside *

University of the Arts London * * *

University of the Highlands and Islands

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University of the West of England

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University of Ulster *

University of Wales Trinity Saint David

* * * *

University of Warwick * *

University of Westminster * * *

University of Winchester * * * *

University of Wolverhampton * *

University of Worcester * * *

University of York * * * * *

Walford and North Shropshire College

* *

Walsall College *

Warwick University *

Warwickshire College * *

Wellcome Library *

Wellcome Trust *

West Herts College *

West Lothian College *

West Nottinghamshire College *

West Suffolk College *

Westminster Kingsway College *

Weymouth College *

Wiener Library, Institute of Contemporary Art

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Wiltshire College *

Winstanley College *

Wirral Metropolitan College *

Women’s Library *

Worcester College of Technology

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Writtle College * * *

Yale College of Wrexham *

Yeovil College *

York University *

Zoological Socity of London *

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Appendix 4: Staff at EDINA and Data Library

Peter Burnhill Director Vacancy Deputy Director Moira Massey Cross Services & Strategy ManagerIngrid Earp (PT) Senior Administrator Julie Lockley Administrative Secretary/Director’s PA Wendy Macadie (PT) Project Administrator (from Jan 13)Aileen Scott Johnson Administrator (on secondment from June 13)Julie Whitefield (PT) Clerical Officer

Local ServicesRobin Rice Data LibrarianAnne Donnelly Data Library Assistant (to Sept 12)David Girdwood Data Library AssistantRocio von Jungerfeld Data Library Assistant (from Oct 12)Stuart Macdonald Assistant Data LibrarianGeorge Hamilton Software Engineer/DSpace Developer

IT Technical InfrastructureAlan Ferguson Manager & Head of InfrastructureDavid Elsmore Web ArchitectSteve Glover Access Management Support Officer Gary Gray Federation Team Leader Matt Hodson Senior Computing Officer Sara Hopkins Access Management Support Officer Gavin Inglis (PT) Computing OfficerNik Pardoe Small Systems Support Officer David Richmond Computing OfficerAlex Stuart Access Management Support Officer Monica Warnock Access Management Support Officer (from Mar 13)

Service DeliveryBibliographic and Multimedia ServicesChristine Rees Manager & Head of Bibliographic and Multimedia Service DeliveryNatasha Aburrow-Jones Project OfficerMark Allan Software Engineer Cesare Bellini Software Engineer Paula Cuccurullo (PT) Bibliographic Assistant Donna Cruikshank Project Manager (from Mar 13)Pratyusha Doddapaneni Software Engineer Andrew Dorward Business Manager Fred Guy Project ManagerCelia Jenkins Bibliographic Assistant

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Rick Loup (PT) Multimedia Services Development OfficerMorag Macgregor Software EngineerNeil Mayo Software EngineerMuriel Mewissen Project Manager Zena Mulligan (PT) Project OfficerNiall Munro Software EngineerWilliam Petit Software Engineer Des Reid Software Engineer Adam Rusbridge UK LOCKSS Alliance CoordinatorBen Soares Senior Software EngineerDavid Speed Software Engineer Tim Stickland Senior Software Engineer/Workgroup LeaderIan Stuart Software EngineerGareth Waller Senior Software EngineerMoira Whitson Senior Library AssistantRichard Wincewicz Software Engineer (from Sept 12)Chris Yocum Technical Support – RepNet (to Mar 13)

Learning and TeachingVacant Learning and Teaching Manager Peter O’Hare Technical Support Officer Catherine Fleming (PT) Project Officer Cuna Ekmekcioglu (PT) Learning and Teaching Business Development

Geo-Data and Research ServicesConor Smyth Manager & Head of Research and Geo-data Service DeliverySandy Buchanan Project Manager Ben Butchart Senior Software Engineer James Crone GIS Analyst Matt Cuthbert Software Engineer Ian Fieldhouse Software EngineerMike Gale GIS Engineer Colin Gormley Software EngineerGeorge Hamilton Software Engineer Johnny Hay Software Engineer Fiona Hemsley-Flint (PT) GIS EngineerChris Higgins Product and Services Development Workgroup LeaderMhairi O’Hara GIS Engineer (from Aug 12) Murray King Software Engineer Lukasz Kryger Software Engineer Michael Koutroumpas Senior Software Engineer (from Apr 13)Tony Mathys Metadata OfficerJohn Pinto Software Engineer Andrew Pope (PT) Portal Content Coordinator James Reid Business Development Workgroup Leader/Service Manager Anne Robertson (PT) Project Manager

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Andrew Seales Senior Software EngineerDimitrios Sferopoulos Software Engineer Mark Small Software EngineerPanos Terzis Software Engineer Tim Urwin Geo Data Manager/Workgroup LeaderJo Walsh Services Manager (to Sept 12)

User SupportHelen Aiton (PT) Manager and Head of User Support

Helpdesk Helen McVey Helpdesk CoordinatorPaula Cuccurullo (PT) Helpdesk Assistant Sian Gowans (PT) Helpdesk Assistant

Outreach and SupportTom Armitage Support OfficerAndrew Bevan User Support Workgroup LeaderCarol Blackwood User Support Officer Vivienne Carr Training Officer Emma Diffley (PT) User Support Workgroup LeaderDorothy Graves McEwan User Support Officer (to Jun 13)Rick Loup (PT) Support OfficerGuy McGarva (PT) Support OfficerAndrew Pope (PT) Portal Content CoordinatorNicola Osborne Social Media Officer

DocumentationJacqueline Clark Web and Graphic Designer Paul Milne Web and Documentation Officer

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Appendix 5: Conferences, Meetings, CPD and Training

Conferences

SeptemberUNESCO Conference, Vancouver, CanadaOpen Source GIS Conference, Nottingham Digital Research 2012, Oxford Scottish Learning Festival, Glasgow CIGS 2nd Linked Open Data Conference, Edinburgh m-libraries, Milton Keynes Open Knowledge Foundation First International Festival - Open Knowledge in Action, Helsinki , FinlandSLIC/MmITS/SCURL E-books Conference, Edinburgh

OctoberCNI Fall 2012 Membership Meeting, Washington, USA‘Open Public Services 2012: Implementing Reform, Delivering Change’ , London EPUG-UKI Conference 2012, London State of the Map Scotland, Edinburgh AR in Education, London Postgresql Conference Europe 2012, Prague, Czech RepublicSLCI/MiITS/SCURL/SALCTG Annual E-Books Conference, Edinburgh Internet Librarian International 2012, London

NovemberJISC Oversight Group Meeting, London FAM12, Birmingham RSC South East efair, Farnborough Public Perceptions of Privacy & Confidentiality, Edinburgh JISC RSC Learning Resources Annual Conference, Manchester e-Infrastructure for the Future of Education & Research, Athlone, IrelandOnline Information, London JISC Collections AGM, Bristol GEO-IX Plenary, Foz do Iguasso, Brazil

DecemberUN Expert Meeting on Crowd Sourced mapping for Disaster relief and Crisis management, Vienna, AustriaAGI Cymru Annual Conference, Cardiff Engage 2012 - NCCPE annual conference, Bristol BUFVC - Get Creative >> Raising awareness of moving image & sound content in your institution, London

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JanuaryThe Geological Society Higher Education Network Annual Meeting, Nottingham RSP Event, ‘Supporting and Enhancing your Repository’, London Citizen’s Observatories Coordination Workshop, Brussels, BelgiumBETT 2013, London Heriott Watt Crucible V Lab 1, Edinburgh Citizens Observatory Meeting, Brussels, BelgiumInternational Digital Curation Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands

FebruaryRSGS Talk, Edinburgh RSC Yorkshire & Humber: HE Conference 2013: Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century, Leeds Intermediate/Advanced Perl techniques, London Royal Society of Edinburgh Spreading the Benefits of Digital Participation Launch Event, Edinburgh JISC Discovery Summit, London Sharing environment monitoring data; Benefits, barriers and future standards, Birmingham Innovative Learning Week in Informatics : Smart Data Hack, Edinburgh University of Edinburgh MSc in eLearning Alumni Seminar Event, EdinburghSmart Data Hack, Innovations learning Week, Informatics, Edinburgh Workshop to inform requirements gathering exercise on CKAN for academic RDM, London JIBS Discovery workshop, London Technology for Marketing & Advertising (TfM&A), London AGI Scotland, GlasgowGeospatial Metadata Workshop at the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen JISC Discovery Summit Developer Day, London

MarchCadcorp User Group Meeting Northern Region, ManchesterDataCite workshop, London What Does Peer Review of Data Mean? London OKFN Edinburgh Meet-up #5, Edinburgh Social Media Community Event, Edinburgh Gateway 2 Research Hack, Birmingham HEA GEES Postgrads who teach, Edinburgh Fedora UK&I User Group, Durham Digital Preservation Training Programme, LondonHTML5: Evolution or Revolution? Edinburgh Guardian Changing Media Summit, London Time Travel Project Start Up Meeting, Edinburgh JISC Non-Text-Based Content expert Group, London

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AprilGeographical Association Conference 2013, Derby Latin American Forum, Edinburgh GISRUK 2013, Liverpool 2nd UK Ontology Network meeting, EdinburghTwitter and Microblogging: Political, Professional and Personal Practices, Lancaster elearning@ed 2013, Edinburgh UKSG Conference, Bournemouth GEO European Projects Workshop 7, Barcelona, SpainRSC Scotland Learning Technologist Forum, Dundee Big Data in the Public Sector, Edinburgh Managing and Using Social Media to Develop Your Academic Identity Online, Cardiff An Introduction to RDA - a joint CIGS/BDS workshop, Glasgow Carmichael Watson Phase IV Launch, Fort William RepNet Project Board, London COBWEB Design Forum, Machynlleth/Wales ISSN, Paris, FranceUKSG Conference, Bournemouth DPC Directors Group, York ARLIS RDA implementation workshop, London EPUG-UKI meeting and AGM 2013, London An introduction to RDA - a joint CIGS/BDS workshop, Glasgow Carmichael Watson Phase IV Launch, Fort William

May Digital Scholarship Day of Ideas 2, Edinburgh Scottish Crucible - “Research in the media” panel, Edinburgh DigCurV - Framing the Digital Curation Curriculum Conference, Florence, ItalyJISC Collections HE Roadshow, Edinurgh Smartphone Apps, Maps and Augmented Reality, Keyworth, NottinghamMaps in the Cloud Workshop, London RSP event, ‘Implementing Funder Mandates’, London HE Academy Arts & Humanties annual conference, Brighton IASSIST 2013, Cologne, GermanyRSP Webinar: RJ Broker, Online Dyfi Woodlands Community Consultation, Machynlleth UNESCO Colloquim Wales, Aberystwyth ‘Dealing with Data - what’s the role for the library?’ Gent, BelgiumIntroducing Heriot-Watt Engage, Edinburgh 4th Annual Meeting of COAR, Istanbul, Turkey

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JuneJisc RSC Scotland Annual Conference, Edinburgh Terena Networking Conference, Maastricht, NetherlandsFrom FP7 to Horizon 2020, glasgow RSP event: Increasing the full-text deposits in your institutional repository, London Jisc RSC Yorkshire & Humber Annual Conference, Leeds CIGS: Metadadata and Web 2.0, Edinburgh EDINA Geoforum, London Insights into Digital Media webinar (Jisc RSC East Midlands), Online Jisc RSC Northwest Annual Event 2013, St Helens Research Data: Storage and Security, Edinburgh Presentation on Using Social Media to Communicate Your Research for the “Research Funding: What Next? Looking at the Next Steps Post PhD” day, part of the ESRC’s Summer School held at the University of EdinburghOpen Repositories 2013, Charlottetown, CanadaGold OA Infrastructure Workshop, London National Library of Scotland Strategy Workshop, Stirling

JulyMeeting with SDLC, Edinburgh Jisc RSC Eastern e-Fair, Chelmsford Mobile Resources Library Access Issues Workshop, London Using Data and Information in Special Collections in Non-Traditional Ways, Edinburgh Repository Fringe 2013, Edinburgh

Meetings

August ISSN Directors, Lisbon, PortugalRSE Digital Scotland: Reaping the Benefits Inquiry Committee Roundtable with Stakeholders, Edinburgh

SeptemberUKLP task & Finish Group, EdinburghMeeting with Clara O’Shea and Marshall Dozier of MSc in eLearning team, EdinburghKB+ project, YorkFOSS4G 2013, NottinghamMSc in Science Communication and Public Engagement tutors meeting, EdinburghJIBS User Group Committee, EdinburghUK RepositoryNet Advisory Board, YorkStudent Communications Task Group, Edinburgh

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Discovery Phase 2 Final Programme , BirminghamJISC Discovery Final, Birmingham

OctoberUK Environmental Observation Framework Data Advisory Group, LondonUK RepositoryNet+ - Service and Innovation Partners Group, EdinburghRepNet SIGP meeting, EdinburghRDTF advisory group: review of work, LondonRepNet, BathSnowflake, EdinburghDyfi Catchment and Woodland Research Platform, AberystwythUK federation Technical Advisory Group (TAG), LondonCOBWEB and Welsh Government, CardiffIRIOS-2 end of Project, NewcastleCLOCKSS Fall Board, New YorkKB+ testers group, LondonCOBWEB TECH, Dublin, IrelandFuture Earth Town-Hall, London

NovemberCOBWEB WP5 Kickoff , MunichNLS, National Sound Archive Portal Project Stakeholders, EdinburghScottish Accessible Information Forum, GlasgowEDINA Management Board, EdinburghCOBWEB Kick off, EdinburghARLIS National Co-ordination Committee (NCC), LondonJISC Review of non-text-based media activity, EdinburghUKLA Steering Committee, YorkJISC OSG, LondonScottish Visual Arts Group (SVAG), EdinburghRepNet SIPG, Edinburgh

DecemberUKOLN, BathePrints team, SouthamptonARLIS National Co-ordination Committee (NCC) , LondonJISC Multimedia Expert Group, BristolCOBWEB WP2, Aberystwyth

JanuaryUniversity of Edinburgh Digital Imaging Unit, EdinburghOGC Technical Committee, Redlands

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RepNet Advisory Board, EdinburghStudent Communications Forum, Edinburgh

FebruaryScottish Digital Library Consortium (SDLC) Repository Development Group, St. AndrewsRoyal Society of Edinburgh Spreading the Benefits of Digital Participation - Evidence Gathering Event in Dundee (six in total), DundeeRoyal Society of Edinburgh Spreading the Benefits of Digital Participation Inquiry, EdinburghRepNet with University of St Andrews, St AndrewsUK LOCKSS Alliance Steering Committee, YorkCOBWEB WP2 Use Case, AberystwythUKLP Business Interoperability WG telcon, AberystwythSpatial Information Board, EdinburghGEOSS AIP-6 telcon, TelconBBSRC Crowdsourcing arranged by Edinburgh Beltane, Edinburgh

MarchUKDS away day, ColchesterBritain from the air launch, EdinburghARLIS NCC, LondonKB+ Board, LondonJISC AIM, LondonOS DFS, LondonJisc, RepNet and Components Planning, LondonCOBWEB Centre for Alternative, MachynllethCOBWEB WP3, Dublin, Eire

AprilUK federation policy board, LondonRoyal Society of Edinburgh Spreading the Benefits of Digital Participation Inquiry - Evidence Gathering for SMEs, DumfriesFOSS4G Face2Face, NottinghamBeltane Annual Gathering Hack Session Planning, EdinburghRoyal Society of Edinburgh Spreading the Benefits of Digital Participation Inquiry - Evidence Gathering in Hawick, HawickRepNet Project Board, LondonCOBWEB Design Forum, MachynllethDyfi Woodlands COBWEB, Machynlleth

MayKB+ , YorkCulture Hack Scotland Pre-Hack, EdinburghCOBWEB Dyfi Biosphere Partnership prep, Machynlleth

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Dyfi Biosphere Partnership Annual, MachynllethRoyal Society of Edinburgh Spreading the Benefits of Digital Participation - Accessibility Evidence Gathering Round Table, EdinburghSymplectic User Group, Leeds UK federation AIM advisory board, LondonPURE User Group, DundeeUniversity of Gottingen Visit, EdinburghCOBWEB WP2, Aberystwyth

JuneScottish Visual Arts Group (SVAG) , EdinburghISNI Identification of Institutions, Paris, FranceRepNet Project Board, LondonSTARS, St AndrewsEDINA Management Board, EdinburghSpatial Information Board, Edinburgh

JulyCOAR General Assembly, Istanbul, TurkeyCOBWEB Advisory Board, MachynllethCOBWEB Welsh Government, AberystwythAlexander Street Press Academic Video, LondonCOBWEB Coordination with UCD, MachynllethCOBWEB Tourism Use Case, Machynlleth COBWEB Dyfi Woodlands, Machynlleth

Continuing Professional Development for EDINA staff

Practical Project Management, EdinburghNetskills Project Management , ManchesterPRINCE2 course, EdinburghManaging Capability, EdinburghITIL Service Transition, EdinburghGetting The Most from Your Annual Review, EdinburghCulture Hack Scotland 2013, GlasgowAutoCAD training, EDINACompetency Framework Training, EdinburghUnderstanding Competencies, EdinburghITIL Training, EdinburghQA ITIL IT service management foundation , EdinburghEngaging Others, EdinburghFRBR for the Terrified , EdinburghWikipedian in Residence , Edinburgh

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Training Courses presented by EDINA staff

AugustJISC Communications Channels workshop, Newcastle

SeptemberAcademic Blogging Workshop for 18th Century Cultures - MSc Students, EdinburghWorkshop with Mimas, Manchester, Manchester

NovemberDigimap Collections, Leeds RDM training, School of Geosciences, EdinburghJISC MediaHub - progress update (Webinar), Edinburgh

JanuaryIntroduction to Perl training course, Edinburgh

FebruaryAn overview of digital media services provided by Jisc (Webinar), BristolDigimap Essentials, Exeter

AprilMSc in Science Communication and Public Engagement - lecture, EdinburghDigimap Collections, LondonDigimap Collections, London

MayDigimap Collections, NewcastleDigimap Collections, University of Kent, CanterburyUK Data Service (Webinar), Edinburgh

JuneDigimap Collections, BirminghamPresentation on Using Social Media to Develop Your Academic Profile and Engage Others in Your Research for the University of Edinburgh Informatics Research Staff Society, Edinburgh

JulyUK Data Service Update - Census Geography Tools (Webinar), Edinburgh

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EDINA Annual Review 2012–2013