Geoforum 2014

Geoservices support – what’s coming and what we’ve been

up to

19th June 2014Carol Blackwood

carol.blackwood@ed.ac.uk

Digimapregistration system

Registering for Digimap

Registering for Digimap

Registering for Digimap

Registering for Digimap

Registering for Digimap

Development – user stories

User stories - short, simple description of a feature told from the perspective of the person who desires the new capability.

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Define requirements

Photo by Addy Pope

New system - how it will work

1. Register – provide user details2. Validate – email validation

3. Activate – activate access to collections

Important points

• No change for existing users

• Renew activations after 12 months

• Registrations for Historic Collection users

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Rollout and support

• Anticipated early September 2014

• Help pages• How to guides• Videos• Webinars• Suggestions? Photo courtesy of NHS Confederation - https://flic.kr/p/9YxwXp

Support Services Update

Online help - Pure Chat

Online help – videos, tutorials

http://www.youtube.com/user/EDINADigimap

Online help – service demos

http://digimap.edina.ac.uk/webhelp/digimapsupport/service_demos/service_demos.htm

Online help – Local information

http://digimap.edina.ac.uk/webhelp/digimapsupport/service_info/digimap_information.htm

http://digimap.edina.ac.uk/webhelp/digimapsupport/service_info/digimap_logos.htm

Training courses

• Derby• Oban• Bradford• Swansea• Southampton• London

Photo by Addy Pope

Workshops

cc-by-2.0 – by Anne Burgress – geograph.org.uk/p/483739

• Digimap workshop tailored for history students

• Digimap and GIS workshop for earth and env science MSc students

• Intro to Digimap and collecting data with FieldTripGB

Workshops

• British Cartographc Society Map Curators workshop

• Enhancing fieldwork learning workshop

• GeoData London• Jisc Digifest – FieldTripGB

workshops• OR2014 – Research Data

Management Workshopcc-by-2.0 – by Anne Burgress – geograph.org.uk/p/483739

Workshops - metadata

• Metadata workshops by Tony Mathys at St Andrews, Aberdeen, Manchester, UHI (via video link!) and The James Hutton Institute

• Paper at GEOMED 2013 Conference

cc-by-2.0 – by Anne Burgress – geograph.org.uk/p/483739

Webinars

• Digimap Collections: an introduction

• Digimap data in GIS• Making the most of

Roam• Historic Digimap• Environment Digimap

• We take requests!

Find where we’ll be

http://digimap.blogs.edina.ac.uk/events/

http://edina.ac.uk/events/

http://www.gogeo.ac.uk/gogeo/metadata/wshop.htm

Support services – what’s coming

• Site rep stats for all collections

• Annual calculation of data values