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Projects at EDINA

As a UK national data centre, EDINA engages in both projects and services, the former geared to development activities which inform and develop the operation of EDINA national services, either producing new services or improvement in existing services. These are generally externally-funded and often in partnership with other institutions.

Geo-spatial Projects

The Map & Data page of the EDINA website contains related services.

AddressingHistory

The will create an online tool to combine data from digitised historical Scottish Post Office Directories with contemporaneous historical maps.

Connecting Historical Authorities with Linked data, Contexts and Entities (CHALICE)

The project will generate a gazetteer of historic UK placenames, linked to documents and authority files in Linked Data form.

European Spatial Data Infrastructure with a Best Practice Network (ESDIN)

ESDIN was established by the European Commission to develop a Best Practice Network and to evaluate the theory of integrating national Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs).

Geospatial Application Profile (GAP)

It is the task of this project to develop a Geospatial Application Profile (GAP) analogous to the ePrints (SWAP) Profile for the purposes of describing geospatial resources held in repositories to assist in their discovery and reuse.

Scottish Spatial Data Infrastructure

EDINA has formed a partnership with the Scottish Government to develop a pilot discovery metadata service as a key component of a Scottish Spatial Data Infrastructure.

ShareGeo Open

ShareGeo Open is a spatial data repository that promotes data sharing between creators and users of spatial data. Data held in ShareGeo Open can also be discovered through aggregating search portals such as Go-Geo!.

Supporting Personalisation across the JISC Information Environment

The creation of two rapid demonstrators for Location-based searching for JISC IE services; and a Shared middleware service of service-content references.

Walking Through Time 2

Walking Through Time (first phase) was a simple idea: "SatNav for historical maps"; a phone app that combines GPS technology with old maps to allow users to 'walk through time'. This extension second phase of the Walking Through Time project concentrates upon developing a sustainable platform to allow us to roll-out the application across Britian via the most popular smart phone platform.

Bibliographic Service Projects

The Reading & Reference page of the EDINA website contains related services.

EM-Loader

EM-Loader will demonstrate middleware that enables easier deposit of research papers through batch upload of extant bibliographic metadata.

Open Access Repository Junction

The project aims to develop the Repository Junction from its current simple form contained within the Depot, into a stand-alone broker mechanism which can be easily adopted and integrated by services or projects run by other institutions or organisations.

Multimedia Projects

The Multimedia & Education page of the EDINA website contains related services.

Scoping Study: Aggregations of Metadata for Images and Time Based Media

This project will feed into the Resource Discovery Programme, established by JISC and RLUK, in understanding the issues, barriers and opportunities that establishing an aggregation of metadata describing images and time based media will bring.

Supporting Personalisation across the JISC Information Environment

The creation of two rapid demonstrators for Location-based searching for JISC IE services; and a Shared middleware service of service-content references.

Tobar an Dualchais

This project involves the digitisation of thousands of hours of archive recordings from BBC Scotland, the National Trust for Scotland and the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh. EDINA is developing and hosting the Tobar an Dualchais website.

VSM Portal

The Visual and Sound Materials Portal is a scoping study and demonstrator project to build a demonstrator portal for time-based media and still images - including those licensed for the JISC community, those available 'free' on the internet, and those generated within the academic and publicly-funded community.

Continuing Access and Digital Preservation Projects

CLOCKSS

CLOCKSS is partnership of libraries and publishers formed in 2005 to ensure long-term access to scholarly work in digital format.

PECAN - Pilot for Ensuring Continuity of Access via NESLi2

PECAN is a JISC-funded project to investigate how best to support libraries and their patrons through access to e-journal content post-cancellation.

PEPRS - Piloting An E-Journals Preservation Registry Service

A project to scope, build and test a pilot e-journals preservation registry service (PEPRS) that will provide users with information about which electronic journals have arrangements in place for digital preservation so that journal articles can be accessed over the long term.

Infrastructure Projects

EDINA technical support for the UK Federation

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

SDSS Expert Group in Identity Management

Provides advice and guidance to the JISC on identity and access management

Web Services Tiered Internet Authorisation (WSTIERIA)

Aims to enable interoperation of web services with the by taking two current developments (Internet2 in extending Shibboleth and EDINA in developing non-browser access to federated web services) and applying them to one or more real use cases.


Completed Projects

Recently Completed Projects

Projects completed within the last 6 months.

Projects Archive

Websites and summaries of projects which have been completed are archived in their final state.