10222009 Slide 1

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JISC Conference 2007
Valuing a JANET connection
Joint Information Systems Committee
Supporting education and research
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Taking it to the Network role of EDINA
MIMAS as national data centres
Julia Chruszcz Peter Burnhill Directors, MIMAS
EDINA
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Overview joint presentation

• The JISC National Data Centres
  PB 5 minutes
• What they are
• What they do
• Showcase Time PB
  JC with 5 minutes each
• EDINA
• The Digimap Collection
• Film Sound Online
• MIMAS
• Intute - resource discovery
• SIDS
• Developments at the NDCs JC
  5 minutes
• Current
• Future

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The National Data Centres

• EDINA and MIMAS together offer a well-found
  platform from which to deliver online services
  across JANET and wider Internet
• adding value in order to enhance productivity of
  research, learning teaching in the UK academic
  and science community
• based at Universities of Edinburgh Manchester,
  each with regional office
• Agreements with HEFCE, funding managed by JISC
  other funding
• Subject to SLAs, monitoring 99 uptime for 24/7
  access
• designated by the JISC circa 1995, each with
  relevant history experience
• EDINA grew from Data Library, PLU/ERCC
• MIMAS grew from computing and data services at
  UMRCC
• began life in network-accessible, multi-access
  software-rich environments, geared for use by
  others

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provision guided by demand-side verbs

• discover information object of interest
• e.g. article/dataset referenced in database, AI,
  eToC
• locate organisation offering service
• e.g. data access service or document delivery
  service
• request use of service
• via privilege of membership authentication/author
  isation
• access object of interest
• via online access, document delivery
  (sometimes) personal visit..
• use somewhere else? local computing or across
  the Network
• based on MODELS workshops (UKOLN/JISC eLib)

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What NDCs do

• Together, EDINA MIMAS deliver
• first-rate, free at the point of use online
  services across JANET the wider Internet
• to both externally-licensed community-generated
  resources
• input to build the UK digital library, the JISC
  Information Environment
• All in support of
• Scholarly communication COPAC, SUNCAT, ZETOC
  etc
• Research activity
• Learning and Teaching Jorum, National Learning
  Network, etc
• All delivered directly to the web
• Implications for relevance, usability
  accessibility
• and largely also via m2m interfaces
• Interoperability Middleware

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Showcase Time (5 minutes x 2)

• Examples that illustrate what is on offer at the
  two National Data Centres
• EDINA http//www.edina.ac.uk
• Digimap Collections
• FilmSound Online
• MIMAS http//www.mimas.ac.uk
• Intute - resource discovery
• SIDS - Satellite imaging data

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EDINA Digimap - a 'virtual national map library

• An online mapping and data delivery service,
  providing
• (7 pioneering years) access to current Ordnance
  Survey mapping
• launched in January 2000, after successful eLib
  Programme
• high quality and large format cartographic output
  over web
• raw digital map data downloaded for use in
  desktop applications
• access now extended to mapping of
• The past (1840s -) with historic OS products (as
  raster)
• The geology of GB
• Coastal and hydrographic coverage of UK and
  Ireland
• Added Value in so many ways
• as common service and access point
• as curated collection
• with large-scale server-side processing

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EDINA Digimap value added process
Software default cartographic rules specified
by vendor
Software application at EDINA of cartographic
rules
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0000000 2100000010001055810075820 0 15000156
0321 0901103 0000000 210000001000105713007669
0 0 15000157 0321 0901103
0000000 2100000010001060110075460 0 15000158
0321 0901103 0000000 210000001000106326007465
0 0 15000159 0321 8010619
0000000 2100000010001063370071760 0 15000160
0321 0901103 0000000 210000001000106673007670
0 0 15000161 0321 0901103
0000000 2100000010001058910068550 0 15000162
0321 0901103 0000000 210000001000106449006904
0 0 15000164 0321 0901103
0000000 2100000010001055710052730 0 15000173
0321 0901103 0000000 210000001000105873005039
0 0 15000174 0321 0901103
0000000 2100000010001059520050430 0 15000175
0321 0901103 0000000 210000001000105643004921
0 0 15000176 0321 0901103 0000000
Value added component
OS digital data
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Digimap - success sustainability

• productivity for research/teaching
• by making the conceivable possible
• by lowering barrier of high-price data cost
• 20 of usage as data downloads, value priced at
  15m
• 80 as mapping priceless!
• firmly embedded in teaching research
• very broad range of users and usages
• Inc. large-scale undergraduate use
• promotes use of real/local examples of data in
  teaching and projects
• Subscription base of 148 institutions highly
  valued by e-science community
• extensible to other collections
• planning for the future
• web services
• OpenGIS integration with e-Science GRID
• delivery to mobiles and PDAs

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• Online library of seventeen collections, made
  accessible hosted at EDINA in Sound Picture
  Studio
• initially launched in 2002 as Education Media
  OnLine
• Documentary film, video and sound material as
  scholarly resource
• can be used freely in learning, teaching and
  research
• Several hundred hours of high-quality material
• digitised/acquired via JISC funding through joint
  efforts of BUFVC OU
• available for download, either in full or as
  segments
• in Windows Media Player and QuickTime formats.
• In use at over 330 colleges and universities
• No time now for a film show, but here are two
  quickly-shown pictures

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Services Project Overview
SIDS
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MIMAS SIDS Current Service

• National Data Provider for 1.5 terabytes (500GB
  of compressed) data
• Satellite data of high quality excellent
  positional accuracy, ortho-rectified enabling
  overlay of OS data
• Unique data optical, radar, digital elevation
  model
• A national Support Service for the UK geospatial
  community
• Provider of Advanced RemoteSensing Educational
  Materials
• Heavily and widely used service from a range of
  disciplines.

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Current development activity at the NDCs

• Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) solutions
  include -
• Creation of interoperable services
• OGC WMS WCS
• Providing New interfaces to the satellite data in
  MIMAS SIDS
• Image Streaming Client
• OGC Client
• Future Goals
• Enhancement of SDI grid enablement of archive
• Web Catalogue Service efficient data discovery
• Google Earth KML creation enhance visualisation

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Development at EDINA MIMAS

• Supporting the JISC Information Environment
  through
• Resource Discovery
• Interoperability and Linking technologies
• Community content, Open Access JISC
  Repositories Programme
• Personalisation Web2 (3!)
• Interoperating across environments
• eScience Grid-enabling key resources
• Meeting this week between NDCs National Grid
  Services
• special focus on Spatial Data Infrastructure
  (SDI)
• Open GIS Consortium
• Middleware developments
• IE Service Registry OpenURL Router
• GeoXwalk
• Authentication/Shibboleth SDSS

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Web services next generation for NDC services

• The aspiration a silent/invisible
  infrastructure that responds flexibly and
  reliably to the needs of the research community
• Realising this requires service interfaces that
• allow data to be delivered to desktop
  applications
• seamlessly integrate access to geospatial and
  research datasets with other types of media found
  within the JISC IE
• support faster, better, multidisciplinary,
  different research
• use open standards, protocols and metadata, and
  data specifications

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Future Developments

• Content
• Resource Discovery
• Beyond Resource Discovery
• Taking it to the network

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More

• For more information at lunch visit the
• EDINA MIMAS Intute stands
• and of course, you can take it to the Network at
• www.edina.ac.uk
• www.mimas.ac.uk