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EDINA Annual Review 2008/2009At the start of 2008/2009 EDINA agreed to take on support for the UK LOCKSS Alliance, as this movedfrom a two-year pilot project mode at the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) into a sustainable service mode. TheUK LOCKSS Alliance is a cooperative movement of UK academic libraries that are committed to identify,negotiate, and build local archives of material that librarians and academic scholars deem significant. It used theLots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS) technology in order to ensure that libraries remain central to theprocess of scholarly information management. It is also preparing to act as a focal point for discussion on theissues of journal preservation and rights management.EDINA is also acting in a support role for initiative taken by the University of Edinburgh as one of sevenfounding libraries in CLOCKSS, which moved to full service in 2008 - Edinburgh becoming the Archive Nodein Europe among a global network of eleven steward libraries. Fund-raising for endowment began to provide thenecessary financial sustainability of CLOCKSS.EDINA, together with Stanford University Libraries, acts as a designated Open Access host for ‘orphaned’journal content when a trigger event is confirmed. To date three sets of content have been released, both testingthe readiness of the CLOCKSS system and making available under Open Access journal articles that mightotherwise have been lost to global scholarship.It is encouraging that a variety of archiving initiatives are emerging but it is then important to know who islooking after what. PEPRS (Piloting an E-Journals Preservation Registry) is a JISC-funded project, in whichEDINA is partnering with the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) International Centre, to scope,develop and test an online facility that will keep track of which e-journals are being kept safe by digitalpreservation agencies for future use.At the end of 2008-2009 EDINA joined with JISC Collections and Content Complete to begin a five-monthstudy - PECAN (Pilot for Ensuring Continuity of access via NESLi2) - to scope what is required to supportpost cancellation access to back copy of e-journal content.The project envisages two facilities: a registry of entitlement (which has reliable information on the journalcontent that has been subscribed to by libraries via NESLi2) and a secure virtual archive (providing secure androbust access to back journal content).Further information about PEPRS and PECAN may be found in Section 3.Other HighlightsLast year was also a busy one for UKBORDERS, an ESRC funded component in the Census Programmewhich provides end-user access to a large online ‘filing cabinet’ of digitised boundaries and the postcodedirectory to support geo-linking, and now makes this available as a back-end web service (OGC Web FeatureService) to other services. Support for researchers extended to a special derived boundary for the ONS LabourForce Survey (Berrington & Stone, Population Trends, 2009). Attention was also given to the production ofeLearning modules: ‘Understanding the geography of the UK’, and two on accessing and using ‘digitalboundaries and geographic look up table datasets’ - all three deposited in Jorum.The Geoservices team has continued to advance thinking within the geospatial arena both nationally andinternationally with its work on security, semantics, knowledge infrastructures and interoperability. Like manyorganisations within the UK and the rest of Europe, it is attempting to understand the ramifications for UKacademia of the EU INSPIRE Directive which has the intention of opening up to wider use a large number ofenvironmental and environmentally related datasets held by member state organisations. In the UK there is alsothe government’s Location Strategy, which is being implemented through the Location Programme. EDINAhas been advising JISC on both of these strategically important initiatives, liaising with the Research Councilsand the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Higher Education representative on the LocationCouncil.6
EDINA Annual Review 2008/2009The Statistical Accounts of Scotland is an online version of the full text of two accounts of Scottish parishesconducted in the 1790s and 1830s, published as the First and New Statistical Accounts of Scotland. An onlinepayment system that enabled users to subscribe to The Statistical Accounts of Scotland service for periods oftwo, six or twelve months was developed and yielded 20 subscriptions during 2008/2009.Land Life Leisure is a weekly updated digest of press releases, reports and articles in the field of ruralinformation. A rebranding exercise took place early in 2009, which resulted in a change to the service name(from Land, Life & Leisure to Land Life Leisure). A new logo and interface were also introduced and supportdocumentation was updated. The subscription base to the service remained at around 40 separate, university,college and non-academic organisations, including the existing consortium of public libraries in West Wales.Tobar an Dualchais is a multi-million-pound Heritage Lottery-funded project, which will preserve, digitise andmake available online more than 12,000 hours of recordings from the archives of BBC Scotland, the NationalTrust for Scotland and the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh. The Tobar an Dualchaisproject is based at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the Gaelic-language college on Skye. EDINA and the University ofEdinburgh Information Services (IS) were contracted in 2007 to produce a Production Control Application anda Cataloguing Application (for web-based input of metadata) and EDINA will develop and host the OnlineService and Searchable Catalogue. An initial prototype of the new Tobar an Dualchais website, was madeavailable for user testing in July 2009.In 2008-2009, EDINA applied design project management and usability testing in the visual design stage toinform the production of new interfaces for EIG, NFO, Digimap ROAM and Tobar an Dualchais. Short onlinetraining sessions were introduced, using a web conferencing service that enabled more frequent interaction withsite representatives across the UK than is possible with face-to-face training alone.7
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