EDINA
EDINA, based at Edinburgh University Data Library, is a JISC-funded national datacentre. It offers the UK tertiary education and research community networked access to a library of data, information and research resources. All EDINA services are available free of charge to members of UK tertiary education institutions for academic use, although institutional subscription and end-user registration are required for most services.
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Recent Submissions
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Repositories Unleashing Data: Ideas
(University of Edinburgh, 2015-08-13)Participants at Repositories Fringe (RepoFringe) 2015 were invited to discuss how new audiences (particularly beyond the academic community) and new uses for data from institutional repositories could be identified and ... -
AddressingHistory—Crowdsourcing a Nation's Past
(Routledge, 2013-04-17)This paper charts the development and delivery of a Web 2.0 informed community engagement tool and application programming interface (API) developed at EDINA in partnership with the National Library of Scotland, as part ... -
Modelling Urban scale Retrofit, Pathways to 2050 Low Carbon Residential Building Stock
(IBPSA, 2013-08)A bottom up engineering modelling approach has been used to investigate the pathways to 2050 low carbon residential building stock. The impact of housing retrofit, renewable technologies, occupant behaviour, and grid ... -
Tales from The Keepers Registry: Serial Issues About Archiving & the Web
(Elsevier, 2013)A key task for libraries is to ensure access for their patrons to the scholarly statements now found across the Internet. Three stories reveal progress towards success in that task. The context of these stories is the ... -
A Pedestrian View of the Roads to Open Access: Understanding Workflows to Enrich Infrastructure
(EDINA, University of Edinburgh, 2012-08)Things are moving quickly on the policy front with respect to the roads to Open Access with renewed focus on Gold Open Access. Gold OA is essentially the purchase of a service from a publisher: that the Publisher’s (or ... -
Support for users within an educational or e-learning context
(Facet Publishing, 2012-06-22)This chapter provides an overview of popular digital resources in learning and the transition to elearning examining the changing needs of users in this process. A case study of Jorum and Open Educational resources is used ... -
Amplification and Analysis of Academic Events through Social Media: A Case Study of the 2009 Beyond the Repository Fringe Event
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2011-01)Social media tools are in increasing use across higher education and Twitter hashtags, live blogs, Facebook events and Flickr groups are becoming a regular feature of academic conferences and events. In this chapter the ... -
Lowering the barriers from Discovery to Delivery: a JISC funded EDINA and Mimas project
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2010)Abstract – Purpose The paper describes the context and the progress with the Discovery to Delivery project. Approach Having set the scene for discovery to delivery, the paper describes how the project work was ... -
Piloting an E-journals Preservation Registry Service (PEPRS)
(Routledge, 2010-04-09)It has been estimated that there are approximately 66,000 e-journals in existence with around 15,000 being scholarly journals. There are particular issues appertaining to journals in electronic format which do not apply ... -
Research Data Practice in the Life Sciences
(2009-12)The broad aim of the RIN-funded Case Studies in Life Sciences project, undertaken by a team of social scientists and information specialists from the Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation (ISSTI) ... -
Un nuevo cometido para los bibliotecarios academicos: data curation
(2009-12)Academic libraries are facing a range of new challenges in the 21st century, be it the pace of technological change, budgetary constraints, copyright and licensing, or indeed changes in user behavior and expectation. Models ... -
User Engagement in Research Data Curation
(2009)In recent years information systems such as digital repositories, built to support research practice, have struggled to encourage participation partly due to inadequate analysis of the requirements of the user communities. ... -
Edinburgh DataShare - A DSpace Data Repository: Achievements and Aspirations
(Presented at the Fedora-UK&I&EU Meeting, Oxford, 2009-12-08)An overview of the evolution of an institutional data repository, Edinburgh DataShare -
Towards the development of data libraries in the UK
(1985)Data has been described as 'a general term used to denote any or all facts, numbers, letters and symbols which refer to or describe an object, idea, condition, situation or other factor' (S.Dodd 1982). Clearly this is quite ... -
Geospatial Data-sharing in UK Higher Education: informal repositories and users’ perspectives
(2007-04)This report outlines research into the sharing of geospatial datasets by researchers based in UK universities as part of the GRADE project, a scoping exercise for the creation of a geospatial data ... -
Designing a licensing strategy for sharing and re-use of geospatial data in the academic sector
(2007-03)The GRADE Project (http://edina.ed.ac.uk/projects/grade) is one of a cluster of projects in the Digital Repositories Programme funded by the Joint Information Services Committee (www.jisc.ac.uk) of ... -
Use Case Compendium of Derived Geospatial Data
(2005-12)The realisation that “everything happens somewhere” has driven widespread commercial and non-commercial thirst for geospatial data. The ability to collect, handle and distribute geospatial information has proven of major ... -
Providing local data support for academic data libraries
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An enquiry into the use of numeric data in learning & teaching
(2001-09)Within UK higher education the renewed attention to learning and teaching is an impetus for change. Advances in information technology create new space for learning beyond the traditional classroom lecture format. ... -
The Local Data Support Landscape in the UK
(IASSIST Quarterly, 2005)This paper will report on existing data support infrastructures within the UK tertiary education community. The paper will then discuss early methods and traditions of data collection within UK territories. In addition it ...
