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EDINA Geoservices

EDINA Geoservices. Deliver 24/7 online geo-data, mapping and gazetteer services to HE/FE and beyond Highly experienced and skilled team provides advice nationally and internationally active in standards development also active in GI community nationally and internationally

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EDINA Geoservices

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  1. EDINA Geoservices • Deliver 24/7 online geo-data, mapping and gazetteer services to HE/FE and beyond • Highly experienced and skilled team • provides advice nationally and internationally • active in standards development • also active in GI community nationally and internationally • Over ten years experience in handling spatial data • At leading edge of GI service development in UK • resulted in participation in projects with OS • Undertake r&D - projects  service • Strategic move toward interoperability

  2. Undertake development projects and hosting…for BL… • BL gazetteer hosting (Collect Britain) • NOF Vision of Britain : … and others… • GIGateway (www.gigateway.org) • AGI Tech SIG

  3. National Services… • Digimap : • UKBORDERS : … and pre-service development projects… • Go-Geo! (www.gogeo.ac.uk) • Agricultural Census : • OGS Web Services (e.g OS Pathfinder) • geoXwalk (www.geoXwalk.ac.uk)

  4. Making geography matter Aims • Create a placename ‘authority’ file • Make variations in definitions of ‘geography’ transparent • Provide a means to ‘crosswalk’ geographies i.e. translate one geography into another - hence the name • ‘Geographic agnosticism’ • How? • Create a digital gazetteer that stores the different geographies and can implicitly resolve the relationships between them • Provision as a service to service other services

  5. Supporting service searching: Place name - River Tweed Feature Type: River Relation: ‘near’ Distance: 1/2 km Target type: towns (Images indexed on place names) Image finder server “Photographs of towns along the River Tweed” Places... Peebles Innerleithen Melrose Kelso Coldstream Berwick upon Tweed

  6. As online facility to assist metadata creation • Most extant resources have some form of spatial reference e.g. placename, county name, postcode • A ‘geoparser’ has been developed which will assist in the semi-automatic indexing of these resources by using the gazetteer as reference. • The results of the geoparsing can be used to update the documents metadata, making it directly geographically searchable.

  7. Contact details • James.Reid@ed.ac.uk • EDINA, Data Library, University of Edinburgh • telephone +44 (0)131 650 3302 • For information on geoXwalk project: • www.geoXwalk.ac.uk

  8. External Service examples (return)

  9. Internal Service examples: Go-Geo and AgCensus (return)

  10. Internal Service examples: Digimap (return)

  11. Internal Service examples: UKBORDERS (return)

  12. Geoparser (return)

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