This demonstration follows a researcher’s journey through Jisc’s geospatial services from collecting raw data, through to creating new digital information, discovering datasets and plotting and analysing data to creating engaging and revealing visualisations and maps.

2. Jisc geospatial services: enabling research
across disciplines
…a researcher’s journey(s)…

3. Geospatial services
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» Digimap
› View, Annotate and Print Maps
› Download Geospatial Data
› Stream Data into a website or application
» GoGeo
› Search for geospatial datasets
› Create metadata records
› Find out the latest news, jobs and events
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4. Geospatial services
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» Unlock
› Embed geospatial search tools
› Create complex search criteria
› Geoparse text to find locations
» Fieldtrip GB
› Design bespoke data entry forms
› Locate yourself on high quality maps
› Create crowdsourcing projects

5. Cross discipline
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Digimap OS Collection: Users by Subject
Agriculture, food, and forestry
Architecture and planning
Biological sciences
Business and management studies
Communication and media studies
Creative and performing arts
Education and research methods
Engineering
Geography and environment
Humanities
Law
Mathematics and computer science
Medicine including dentistry
Modern languages and area studies
Nursing, midwifery and allied health
Physical sciences
Psychology
Social sciences
2013 User Satisfaction Survey: http://edina.ac.uk/impact/html/osdigimap2013.html

6. Generating Data in the Field Analysing Existing Data
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Research journeys
» Planning
» Collecting
» Georeferencing
» Visualisation
» Searching
» Sourcing
» Combining
» Visualisation

7. Creating new data
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Planning fieldwork

8. Creating new data
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Collecting data

9. Creating new data
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Collecting data

10. Creating New Data
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Georeferencing Data
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11. Creating new data
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Visualisation

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Analysing existing data
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Searching

13. Analysing existing data
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Sourcing
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14. Analysing existing data
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Combining

15. Analysing existing data
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Combining

16. Analysing existing data
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Combining

17. Analysing existing data
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Combining

18. Analysing existing data
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Visualisation

19. Geospatial services
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» Digimap
› digimap.edina.ac.uk/
» GoGeo
› gogeo.ac.uk/
» Unlock
› edina.ac.uk/unlock/
» Fieldtrip GB
› fieldtripgb.blogs.edina.ac.uk/
» ShareGeo Open
› sharegeo.ac.uk/

20. Find out more…
Contact…
Tom Armitage
Geoservices support, EDINA
tom.armitage@ed.ac.uk
edina.ac.uk