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EDINA Annual Review 2008/2009The British Geological Survey are very happy with the uptake of Geology Digimap, and have been drawing up alist of other data sets that might be added to the collection at no extra cost to JISC Collections. Various otherapproaches have been made to EDINA about additional Collections for Digimap. For example, the NERCCentre for Ecology and Hydrology are talking to JISC Collections and EDINA about making their new LandCover Map (LCM) available to UK academia through Digimap.Delivery of the new WellcomeFilm collection to FSOL began in February 2009 and is scheduled to continueuntil December 2009. A total of 258 new films had been added by 31 July 2009. The service continued to offeraccess to three film trails and 47 reviews. Three new case studies were added in 2008-2009, making 11.Liaison continued with the multi-institution HE Academy project led by Glasgow University tasked withproducing exemplars of the use of NewsFilm Online content in a number of different subject areas in HE. Acommenting facility has been developed during 2009, with the intention to include it in service in Autumn 2009.EIG provides access to a collection of some 60,000 images, augmented every year by c. 3,000 new images,delivered as monthly updates.Correspondence including letters from parish ministers to Sir John Sinclair relating to the Statistical Accounts ofScotland; and from Sir John to individual parish ministers encouraging them to forward the statistical account oftheir parish, and the original correspondence received by Sir John Sinclair regarding the parish of Forganny wereadded to the subscription service during 2008/2009.SALSER, the serials catalogue for Scottish academic and research libraries, was updated in 2009. After muchpreparatory work, progress was made in making SALSER more current. The Scottish libraries that contributedata to SUNCAT also have it loaded into SALSER now, Stirling University being the latest contributor. OtherScottish libraries make regular updates. Several libraries began contributing once again, including GlasgowCaledonian University and Glasgow School of Art. The SALSER team continued their communication withother libraries and hope that some holdings will be updated later in 2009, and new libraries added.Agcensus provides grid square agricultural census data for England, Scotland and Wales, and was accessed by 17academic and non-academic organisations in 2008-2009. During the year a significant enhancement was made tothe service to enable the creation of agricultural census ‘Mash-ups’ with a new ‘KML’ output added to thestandard CSV format. KML (Keyhole Markup Language) is a file format that uses XML-based language tomanage geographic information. The EDINA agcensus data is offered for download in OGC Standard KML.UKBORDERS is an integral part of the ESRC Census Programme, for which EDINA acts as the GeographyData Unit.A set of learning objects was produced by an e-learning developer on a short-term contract, and experts in UserSupport, covering geographic concepts for census data learning. A consultant created other online learningmaterials, which demonstrate the principle of having open materials in Jorum that link to authenticated materialsin other services provided by EDINA.Present a coherent and useful service portfolioEDINA seeks to provide a coherent and useful service portfolio to its client communities. Management of eachindividual service lifecycle and how it relates to other services in the portfolio was identified as a crucial factor inachieving this objective, and a number of cross-service groups were established in 2008-2009 to share expertiseacross the data centre.Go Geo! and GeoCrossWalk were selected by JISC as pilot cases to test its then-new transition from project toservice process, and enabled EDINA to develop expertise in this important area.9