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.

1. Geoforum 2014
Geoservices support – what’s
coming and what we’ve been
up to
19th June 2014
Carol Blackwood
carol.blackwood@ed.ac.uk

2. Digimap
registration system

3. Registering for Digimap

4. Registering for Digimap

5. Registering for Digimap

6. Registering for Digimap

7. Registering for Digimap

8. 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

9. Define requirements
Photo by Addy Pope

10. New system - how it will work
1. Register – provide user details
2. Validate – email validation
3. Activate – activate access to collections

11. 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

12. 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

13. Support Services Update

14. Online help - Pure Chat

15. Online help – videos, tutorials
http://www.youtube.com/user/EDINADigimap

16. Online help – service demos
http://digimap.edina.ac.uk/webhelp/digimapsupport/service_demos/service_demos.htm

17. 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

18. Training courses
• Derby
• Oban
• Bradford
• Swansea
• Southampton
• London
Photo by Addy Pope

19. 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

20. Workshops
• British Cartographc
Society Map Curators
workshop
• Enhancing fieldwork
learning workshop
• GeoData London
• Jisc Digifest –
FieldTripGB workshops
• OR2014 – Research
Data Management
Workshop
cc-by-2.0 – by Anne Burgress – geograph.org.uk/p/483739

21. 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

22. Webinars
• Digimap Collections:
an introduction
• Digimap data in GIS
• Making the most of
Roam
• Historic Digimap
• Environment Digimap
• We take requests!

23. 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

24. Support services – what’s coming
• Site rep stats for all
collections
• Annual calculation of data
values