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Presentations & Publications

Below are some of the publications and presentations we have produced during the current academic year (August to July), most recent first.

There are also numerous Digimap Training presentations.

Archive of older presentations...

Presentations

Presentation Title and Link Presenter Event
April 2012
A Tour of the Statistical Accounts of Scotland Helen Aiton Historic Scotland Lunchtime Seminar, Edinburgh, 18 April 2012
UK RepositoryNet+ Mimas Workshop Andrew Dorward UK RepositoryNet+ Workshop with Mimas, Manchester, 5 April 2012
March 2012
Geology Digimap
Video also available		 Vivienne Carr Online webinar, 28 March 2012
Mastering Social Media Nicola Osborne Mastering Social Media Workshop - Innovative Learning Week event for the Institute for Academic Development (IAD), Edinburgh, 24 March 2012
Research Data Management:Approaches To Institutional Policy Robin Rice Managing Research Data Programme: Policy workshop, Leeds, 12 March 2012
PECAN Phase 2: Pilot for Ensuring Continuity of Access via Nesli2 Adam Rusbridge Pecan Workshop, London, 12 March 2012
UK LOCKSS Alliance: Today’s scholarly content, secured for tomorrow Adam Rusbridge Curation in the Cloud, London, 7-8 March 2012
AddressingHistory – Lessons and Messages Stuart Macdonald Geospatial in the Cultural Heritage Domain – Past, Present & Future, Kings College, London, 7 March 2012
The UK Federation Helpdesk Gary Gray McShib (Scottish Shibboleth users forum), Edinburgh, 6 March 2012
This Talk is Meta (and so is this title) Nicola Osborne CIGS Web 2.0 and Metadata Seminar 2012, Edinburgh, 2 March 2012
February 2012
AddressingHistory: Crowdsourcing the Past Stuart Macdonald American Association of Geographers (AAG) Meeting, New York, 25 February 2012
Geospatial Metadata and Spatial Data: It's all Greek to me! (PDF file, 18 Mb) Tony Mathys Current Issues and Applications of the Geospatial Technologies Lecture, Department of Geography and Environment, Aberdeen University, 24 February 2012
Using Data from Digimap in ArcGIS
Video also available		 Vivienne Carr Online webinar, 24 February 2012
Using Data from Digimap in Autocad
Video also available		 Vivienne Carr Online webinar, 22 February 2012
Digimap OS Collection Data Download Services Webinar
Video also available		 Vivienne Carr Online webinar, 15 February 2012
How to Use Linkedin to Start Your Career Nicola Osborne How can Linkedin help my career?, University of Edinburgh, 8 February 2012
JISC MediaHub Webinar
Video also available		 Vivienne Carr Online webinar, 8 February 2012
Historic Digimap Webinar Vivienne Carr Online webinar, 1 February 2012
January 2012
The Keepers Registry: Enabling Trust in E-Journal Preservation Peter Burnhill Trust and E-journals, London, 31 January 2012.
UK RepositoryNet+: A Socio-Technical Infrastructure to Support Repositories Andrew Dorward UK-CORR Members Meeting, Portsmouth, 27 January 2012.
EDINA Digimap Webinar - Roam
Video also available		 Vivienne Carr Online webinar, 25 January 2012
Geospatial Tech in teaching and learning Addy Pope Geospatial Tech in teaching and learning, Saviour or sideshow (GEES HEN) conference, Milton Keynes, 18 January 2012
December 2011
Tweet Dreams are Made of This Nicola Osborne IT Futures Conference 2011, Edinburgh, 13 December 2011
Delivering Postgraduate Training - MANTRA Robin Rice International Digital Curation Conference, Bristol, 5 December 2011
November 2011
Managing academic identities in social media Nicola Osborne Digital HSS event, Edinburgh, 24 November 2011
Research Data Management at Edinburgh: Effecting Culture Change Stuart Macdonald FECYT Recolecta Research Data Management Webinar Series, 24 November 2011
Stirling University Geospatial Metadata Workshop Tony Mathys Geospatial Metadata Workshop, Stirling, 17 November 2011
JISC MediaHub: Service development & immediate plans Andrew Bevan CHArt Conference, London, 17 November 2011
Prezi & Public Engagement Training for Edinburgh Beltane Nicola Osborne Prezi: a new way to create presentations, Edinburgh, 16 November 2011
Introduction to Collaborative by Nature: Interoperable Geospatial Approaches to the Environment Chris Higgins Collaborative by Nature: Interoperable Geospatial Approaches to the Environment, Cardiff, 11 November 2011
Introduction to Digimap Collections
Video also available		 Vivienne Carr Introduction to Digimap Collections webinar, online event, 2 November 2011
October 2011
What Edinburgh is already doing and how it's working Robin Rice Research Data Management Seminar, The Open University, Milton Keynes, 20 October 2011
Digimap Site Reps Update Vivienne Carr and Guy McGarva Digimap Site Rep Update Webinar, 19 October 2011
PEPRS and the Keepers Registry Fred Guy UKSG day at the British Library, London, 13 October 2011
Spatio-Temporal Energy Efficiency Visualisation (STEEV) tool Stuart Macdonald JISC GECO / STEEV Green Energy Tech Event, Edinburgh, 13 October 2011
Overview of ShareGeo & GoGeo Addy Pope JISC GECO / STEEV Green Energy Tech Event, Edinburgh, 13 October 2011
Research Data mantra (management training) Online course launch Robin Rice MANTRA: Effecting culture change in research data management through online training, Edinburgh, 10 October 2011
MANTRA & Open Educational Resources Stuart Macdonald MANTRA: Effecting culture change in research data management through online training, Edinburgh, 10 October 2011
Research Data MANTRA Demo Cuna Ekmekcioglu MANTRA: Effecting culture change in research data management through online training, Edinburgh, 10 October 2011
The EU INSPIRE Directive and what it might mean for UK academia James Reid INSPIRE for the social sciences, Colchester, 7 October 2011
The Keepers Registry Peter Burnhill and Pierre Godefroy ISSN Directors' Meeting, Sarajevo, 4-7 October 2011
September 2011
JISC MediaHub Vivienne Carr and Rick Loup JISC MediaHub webinar, 28 September 2011
Social Media for Scientists Nicola Osborne Science and Social Media, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge UK, 22 September 2011
Going for GOLD - Adventures in Open Linked Geospatial Metadata James Reid AGI GeoCommunity11 Conference, Nottingham, 20 September 2011
Introduction to the University Data Library and national data services Stuart Macdonald Graduate School of Social & Political Science Induction, University of Edinburgh, 15 & 16 September, 2011
Getting and Using Data from Digimap in ArcGIS Guy McGarva and Addy Pope Esri UK and Eduserv, Edinburgh, 13 September 2011
August 2011
Introduction to the GECO Project Nicola Osborne DevCSI / JISC GECO Open Mapping Workshop, Glasgow, 25 August 2011
Getting started with PostGIS geographic database Lasma Sietinsone DevCSI / JISC GECO Open Mapping Workshop, Glasgow, 25 August 2011
Map Styling Tools and Interactive maps on the web with OpenLayers Addy Pope DevCSI / JISC GECO Open Mapping Workshop, Glasgow, 25 August 2011
Social Media for Historic Collections Nicola Osborne Social Media presentation for University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections Communications & Marketing Group, Edinburgh, 23 August 2011.
Mapping the Repository Landscape (Round Table) (PDF) Theo Andrew, Peter Burnhill, Sheila Fraser Repository Fringe 2011, Edinburgh, 3 August 2011
Using OpenURL Router Activity Data (Pecha Kucha) Sheila Fraser Repository Fringe 2011, Edinburgh, 3 August 2011

Publications

Publication Title and Link Author(s) Details
OGC® Engineering Report for the OWS Shibboleth Interoperability Experiment (PDF Download) Editor: Chris Higgins OGC® Public Engineering Reports, 6 April 2012.
AddressingHistory: A Web 2.0 Community Engagement Tool and API Stuart Macdonald IASSIST Quarterly, Volume 35, Issue 3, Fall 2011
Digital Monograph Technical Landscape study
Choose a format: 		Liza Daly EDINA published report for JISC, Dec 2011
Going for GOLD - Adventures in Open Linked Metadata James Reid, Will Waites, Ben Butchart Paper presented at the AGI GeoCommunity11 Conference, Nottingham, 20 September 2011
Shibboleth Access Management Federations as an Organisational Model for SDI Christopher I Higgins, Michael Koutroumpas, Andreas Matheus and Andrew Seales International Journal for Spatial Data Infrastructures Research, Vol 7 (2012)
Research Data Management Initiatives at University of Edinburgh Robin Rice & Jeff Haywood Paper presented at the 6th International Digital Curation Conference, December 2010
Geospatial resources for supporting data standards, guidance and best practice in health informatics(PDF file, 1.5 MB) Tony Mathys & Maged N. Kamel Boulos BMC Research Notes, Volume 4, January 2011
Amplification and Analysis of Academic Events through Social Media: A Case Study of the 2009 Beyond the Repository Fringe Event Nicola Osborne In Wankel C. and Wankel L. (eds.) Higher Education Administration with Social Media Including Applications in Student Affairs, Enrollment Management, Alumni Relations, and Career Centers. Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 167-190. 2011
Collaboration to Data Curation: Harnessing Institutional Expertise Stuart Macdonald & Luis Martinez-Uribe New Review of Academic Librarianship, Volume 16, Issue S1 2010, pages 4 - 16
Securing Geospatial Information (PDF file, 989.1 KB) Chris Higgins, Andreas Matheus & Steven Ramage Geoconnexion, Volume 9, October 2010
Lowering the barriers from Discovery to Delivery: a JISC funded EDINA and Mimas project (PDF file, 1.3 MB) Fred Guy & Joy Elizabeth Palmer Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 38 No. 3, September 2010
AddressingHistory - An online community engagement tool (PDF file, 134.2 KB) Stuart Macdonald ALISS Quarterly, Volume 5, no. 4, July 2010
Piloting an E-journals Preservation Service (PEPRS). (PDF file, 112 KB) Peter Burnhill & Fred Guy The Serials Librarian, 58: 1, 117-126. Author Posting. (c) 'The North American Serials Interest Group, Inc., 2010.
This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of The North American Serials Interest Group, Inc. for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in The Serials Librarian, Volume 58 Issue 1, January 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03615261003622742
Evaluation of Georeferencing (PDF 176 KB) Richard Tobin, Claire Grover, Kate Byrne, James Reid & Jo Walsh Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval, Zurich, Switzerland, February 2010
Research Data Practice in the Life Sciences Stuart Macdonald UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, University of Oxford, 7 December 2009
SUNCAT: the next steps for the UK's national serials catalogue Zena Mulligan In Interlending & Document Supply 37(4) (2009) 215-222, October 2009
SUNCAT Impact and Satisfaction Survey Report (PDF file, 143 KB) Zena Mulligan EDINA published report for JISC, October 2009
User Engagement in Research Data Curation Stuart Macdonald Lecture Notes in Computer Science – Research in Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Volume 5714/2009
JISC SIS Web 2 Case Study Nicola Osborne Contribution to JISC Shared Infrastructure Services Landscape Study - A survey of the use of Web 2.0 tools and services in the UK HE sector, August 2009