a project at EDINA

About G.A.P. 

This site provides details of the activities of a UK (JISC) working group which is developing an Application Profile for describing geospatial resources held in institutional repositories.

This work is being undertaken within the JISC Digital Repositories programme and coordinated  at EDINA National Datacentre (Geoservices). The Geospatial Application Profile (GAP) project is running from November 2007 - April 2008.

The JISC Programme and working home page is here.

Introduction and background

Within the Discovery to Delivery area of the JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme the Intute Repositories Search Project was funded to create a search service for content held within UK repositories and to examine the issues that surround retrieval.  The first iteration of this service is basic, and focuses on ePrints (research papers) only.  A Dublin Core Application Profile for ePrints (research papers) was funded to provide consistency of search.   

Further iterations of the search Repositories Search service will need to include other media types such as images moving pictures and sound, geo-spatial data etc. 

It is the task of this  project to develop a Geospatial Application Profile (GAP) analagous to the ePrints (SWAP) Profile.