geoservices support - carol blackwood
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Presentation given by Carol Blackwood, EDINA, as part of the EDINA Geoforum 2014 event on Thursday 19th June 2014 at the Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh.TRANSCRIPT
Geoforum 2014
Geoservices support – what’s coming and what we’ve been
up to
19th June 2014Carol Blackwood
Digimapregistration system
Registering for Digimap
Registering for Digimap
Registering for Digimap
Registering for Digimap
Registering for Digimap
Development – user stories
User stories - short, simple description of a feature told from the perspective of the person who desires the new capability.
Photo courtesy of Paul Downey https://flic.kr/p/6FHLgk
Define requirements
Photo by Addy Pope
New system - how it will work
1. Register – provide user details2. Validate – email validation
3. Activate – activate access to collections
Important points
• No change for existing users
• Renew activations after 12 months
• Registrations for Historic Collection users
Photo courtesy of NHS Confederation - https://flic.kr/p/9YxwXp
Rollout and support
• Anticipated early September 2014
• Help pages• How to guides• Videos• Webinars• Suggestions? Photo courtesy of NHS Confederation - https://flic.kr/p/9YxwXp
Support Services Update
Online help - Pure Chat
Online help – videos, tutorials
http://www.youtube.com/user/EDINADigimap
Online help – service demos
http://digimap.edina.ac.uk/webhelp/digimapsupport/service_demos/service_demos.htm
Online help – Local information
http://digimap.edina.ac.uk/webhelp/digimapsupport/service_info/digimap_information.htm
http://digimap.edina.ac.uk/webhelp/digimapsupport/service_info/digimap_logos.htm
Training courses
• Derby• Oban• Bradford• Swansea• Southampton• London
Photo by Addy Pope
Workshops
cc-by-2.0 – by Anne Burgress – geograph.org.uk/p/483739
• Digimap workshop tailored for history students
• Digimap and GIS workshop for earth and env science MSc students
• Intro to Digimap and collecting data with FieldTripGB
Workshops
• British Cartographc Society Map Curators workshop
• Enhancing fieldwork learning workshop
• GeoData London• Jisc Digifest – FieldTripGB
workshops• OR2014 – Research Data
Management Workshopcc-by-2.0 – by Anne Burgress – geograph.org.uk/p/483739
Workshops - metadata
• Metadata workshops by Tony Mathys at St Andrews, Aberdeen, Manchester, UHI (via video link!) and The James Hutton Institute
• Paper at GEOMED 2013 Conference
cc-by-2.0 – by Anne Burgress – geograph.org.uk/p/483739
Webinars
• Digimap Collections: an introduction
• Digimap data in GIS• Making the most of
Roam• Historic Digimap• Environment Digimap
• We take requests!
Find where we’ll be
http://digimap.blogs.edina.ac.uk/events/
http://edina.ac.uk/events/
http://www.gogeo.ac.uk/gogeo/metadata/wshop.htm
Support services – what’s coming
• Site rep stats for all collections
• Annual calculation of data values