Services & Projects at EDINA

Middleware & Infrastructure

• UK Access Management / Shibboleth

  EDINA is providing technical support for the operation of the UK Access Management Federation for Education and Research.

• Unlock

  Unlock provides a service 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.

• Digimap OpenStream

  The Digimap OpenStream service provides access to a Web Map Service (WMS) offering Ordnance Survey OpenData products.

• OpenURL Router

  The OpenURL Router works by offering a central registry of institutions' OpenURL resolvers. An institution registers details of its resolver just once, at openurl.ac.uk. When the resolver has been registered at openurl.ac.uk, any service provider can provide users from that institution with OpenURL links to their resolver.

• EDINA Developer Corner

  This website provides developers with useful information on selected EDINA projects.

Repositories & Preservation

• The Keepers Registry

  The Keepers Registry Beta service provides easily accessible information about the archiving arrangements for electronic journals.

• UK LOCKSS Alliance

  Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS) is cooperative of libraries locally maintaining e-journal archives; EDINA provides technical and organisational support.

• CLOCKSS

  EDINA acts as an open access platform for orphaned e-journal content from the CLOCKSS Archive Node maintained by the University of Edinburgh.

• Open Access Repository Junction

  Project is to scope, build and test a deposit broker tool to assist open access deposit into, and interoperability between, existing repository services.

• UK RepositoryNet+

  The aim of the UK RepositoryNet+ project is to increase the cost effectiveness of repositories, by offering a sustained and well-used suite of services that enable repositories to operate more cost effectively.