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Contents1. Director’s introduction ................................................................................................................................................. 1!2. Highlights in our Year, 2008/2009 ............................................................................................................................... 2!Providing Managed Access to Licensed Resources........................................................................................................ 2!Open Access to Community-Generated Content ............................................................................................................ 4!Tools to Help Ensure Continuity of Access to Scholarly Output.................................................................................... 5!Other Highlights ............................................................................................................................................................. 6!3. Meeting our goals .......................................................................................................................................................... 8!Manage and present a portfolio of data services and projects relevant to need............................................................ 8!Provide quality assured services for client communities........................................................................................... 8!Enhance content and collection development............................................................................................................ 8!Present a coherent and useful service portfolio ......................................................................................................... 9!Gain understanding by undertaking research into innovative services and enhancements ..................................... 10!Increase usefulness and relevance of EDINA services and project activity................................................................. 14!Provide effective outreach and support services...................................................................................................... 14!Enhance accessibility of services............................................................................................................................. 16!Gain leverage from inter-working, in UK and internationally ................................................................................ 17!Develop interoperable services and infrastructure................................................................................................... 19!Sustain and develop a well-founded UK national academic data centre..................................................................... 21!Provide effective governance and management of resources .................................................................................. 21!Enhance resource base through technology and staff talent .................................................................................... 22!Develop quality technical capability........................................................................................................................ 22!Ensure EDINA’s long-term sustainability ............................................................................................................... 23!4. Corporate Report ........................................................................................................................................................ 25!a. Management Board .................................................................................................................................................. 25!b. Management Team.................................................................................................................................................... 26!c. Statement of expenditure, 2008-2009 ....................................................................................................................... 26!d. Funding..................................................................................................................................................................... 26!e. Staff at EDINA and Data Library ............................................................................................................................. 27!5. Forward Look .............................................................................................................................................................. 28!Strategic business areas ............................................................................................................................................... 29!Scholarly communications....................................................................................................................................... 29!Geospatial ................................................................................................................................................................ 29!Learning & Teaching ............................................................................................................................................... 29!Multimedia............................................................................................................................................................... 29!Access Management ................................................................................................................................................ 29!
EDINA Annual Review 2008/20091. Director’s introductionOur task here is to review the activities that EDINA carried out last year in its role as a UK national academicdata centre. Innovation is becoming a keyword, signaling a place for organisations that can transform R&D intoproducts and services – in order, as EDINA’s mission, to enhance research, learning and teaching, in the UKand beyond. Increasingly this means an international as well as a national role.EDINA excels in the business areas of geospatial, scholarly communication, multimedia, learning resources, aswell in the ‘middleware’ areas of interoperability and access management. We do so as an established part of theUK digital library, working with the academic support staff within institutions in the Higher and FurtherEducation (H/FE) sectors that subscribe to EDINA services. EDINA is also steadily contributing throughactions to support continuity of access to scholarly resources, and in particular to that contained in e-journalcontent. We have continued to develop close links with national partners, especially those in the ‘JISC family’and with international groups, whether governmental, educational, standards development, research data,commercial or web-services.We begin this Review with highlights of our year and then report against the strategic goals and objectives thatwe set ourselves for 2008-2009. This includes a wide range of services and projects, with highly rated, first classsupport through the EDINA helpdesk, augmented by subject experts within user support, and high qualitycontext sensitive help and online documentation.This past year, the academic year 2008-2009, will be remembered as significant for external events affecting theworld’s finances and economy. What that now means for research and education in the UK is still uncertain.Much depends upon how the sector is regarded by Government in its importance to long-term recovery and wellbeing, as the size of public debt requires long term remedy. There is much talk about demonstrating impact inthe sector, but it is important to moderate this with some assessment and mitigation of the negative impact thatcould be inflicted upon real capacity and performance. As is made evident here, EDINA has a record ofachievement in 2008-2009, and a strong base on which to build network-level infrastructure in order to delivercost-effective common services that add real value. This should not be undermined by short-term actions, butrather the opportunity should be taken to build capacity for the long-term.Peter BurnhillDirector, EDINA1
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