Joint Information Systems Committee

Digimap 10th Birthday

Rachel Bruce, JISC Innovation Group

10/04/23 | Supporting education and research | Slide 1

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JISC Vision

Easy and widespread access to information resources anytime, anywhere, a vision with technology and information management at the heart of education and research.

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ESRC Strategy

1. Global Economic Performance, Policy and Management

2. Health and Wellbeing

3. Environment, Energy and Resilience

4. Security, Conflict and Justice

5. Social Diversity and Population Dynamics

6. New Technology, Innovation and Skills

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JISC- (& ESRC-) funded services at EDINA

core components of the UK academic SDI

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Spatial Data Infrastructure

• More data, more bandwidth, more possibilities …

• Geospatial Working Group (GWG) Vision, Jan 2007

• E-Framework/SEE-GEO, Academic SDI Technical Architecture Workshop

• EDINA with New Zealand Landcare Research – linking up national spatial data infrastructures using web services – global datasets

• Global research and collaboration

Joint Information Systems Committee 10/04/23 | Supporting education and research | Slide 7

Over Zealous Programme Director, 26th November 1997

> My main feeling is that unless something can be done to radically

> speed it up, it will not get client acceptance. Even things like

> progressive display might help, as Netscape has done with images. But

> I spent so long just twiddling, staring at an un-changing screen,

> wondering if anything was happening or if it was broken. Progress bars would help, provided they are updated.

> I begin to wonder whether network delivery is possible!

Joint Information Systems Committee 10/04/23 | Supporting education and research | Slide 8

Lorraine Estelle, 9 January 2008

Dear Members

You may be interested to know that analysis of the EDINA logs show that December saw the registration of the

100,000 Digimap OS Collection user!

The total at the end of December was 100,867... that's about 51 registrations each working day for the last 8 years.

Kind regards

Lorraine