We develop, host and deliver trusted digital services developed for UK education and research, for government and public bodies, for communities locally and globally. Our work spans subject areas with high profile examples including geospatial, cultural, historical, and research data services.
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445
Subscribing institutions
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1,080
Institutional subscriptions
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24
National services
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5,221
Support calls, annually
Our Current Work

Edinburgh DataShare
Online multi-disciplinary repository for sharing and safekeeping of research data.

Historic Digimap
Historic Digimap offers a range of historical OS mapping data products from 1843 to 1996.

Digimap: Ordnance Survey
The Ordnance Survey Collection offers a range of contemporary OS map and data products.

Digimap for Schools
Contemporary and historic Ordnance Survey mapping for primary/secondary schools (UK).

Digimap OpenStream
For desktop GIS users to stream data to their desktop without storing or managing the data.

Keepers Registry
Aggregation of metadata supplied by archiving agencies who preserve electronic journals.

MANTRA
Free online course designed for researchers or others who manage digital data for research projects.

MapStream for Schools
Streaming Ordnance Survey digital mapping at a range of scales, into GIS for the Schools sector.

OpenURL Router
Connects an OpenURL in an online service with the OpenURL resolver at the user's institution.

SUNCAT
Enabling researchers, students and librarians to locate journals, periodicals, newspapers etc.

The Statistical Accounts of Scotland Online
A wealth of information about life in Scotland during the agricultural and industrial revolutions.

UK Data Service Census Support
Providing boundary datasets, associated geographical lookup tables and postcode directories.

UK LOCKSS Alliance
Cooperative of UK libraries that build local archives of scholarly significant materials.
Featured Projects
Some of our most exciting work comes out of our research projects. If you have an idea for a new project or collaboration, or would like us to commission a new piece of work from us, please get in touch.

COBWEB
Creating a testbed environment to enable citizens living with UNESCO designated Biosphere Reserves to collect environmental data using mobile devices

Keepers Extra
Continuing access and preservation of e-journals by establing a sustainable Keepers Network around the Jisc Keepers Registry service.

Safenet
Introducing foundations of national archive infrastructure to host a UK collection of archived e-journals and clarifying continuing access rights.
Developed for Partner Organisations

Administrative Data Research
The Administrative Data Research Centre for Scotland is led by the University of Edinburgh, and brings together major Scottish research centres involved, among other activities, in linking and analysing large datasets geocoding, natural language processing and machine learning

AQMeN
The Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN) is a Research Centre that aims to develop a dynamic and pioneering set of projects to improve our understanding of current social issues in the UK and provide policy makers and practitioners with the robust independent research-based evidence

Carmichael Watson
Guide to the life and work of Scottish Gaelic folklore collector Alexander Carmichael

ESPA
The Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) research programme aims to deliver high-quality, cutting-edge research that will improve our understanding of the way ecosystems function, the services they provide and their relationship with the political economy and sustainable growth

UK Location Metadata Editor
Part of the UK Location Infrastructure (UK LI). The UK Location Metadata Editor is designed to assist in the creation, management and publication of standards compliant geospatial metadata

Tobar an Dualchais
Archive sound recordings of Gaelic and Scots from the School of Scottish Studies, the BBC, and the Canna Collection