Date and location
29th August 2008 at EDINA in Edinburgh, 0930-1630
Workshop report
Here is a report on the workshop please add comments
Background
This invitation only workshop was conceived within the context of the three month EDINA led project "e-Framework Engagement: Geospatial Domain Processes, Services and SUMS". The e-Framework for Research and Education is an information and knowledge management framework advocating the use of service-oriented approaches to facilitate technical interoperability. It is an international initiative comprising partners from the UK (JISC), Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands. As the title indicates, the project intends to make a start at mapping geospatial services and processes using the e-Framework approach. This study is being used to investigate issues relating to the establishment of a UK academic Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI).
The workshop is the second of two, the first, entitled geospatial resources use in tertiary education - "Shaping the Future", was held on the 15th May and was attended by 25 people. The intention of the first workshop was to elicit information from a broadly representative sample of UK academic SDI stakeholders on what they considered would be the future requirements of those who use geospatial resources within UK tertiary education. The output from the first workshop (the "what") constitutes key input to the second ("how").
Workshop Objectives
- Establish the main elements of the technical architecture of the UK academic sector SDI.
- Identify key steps necessary to progress the UK academic SDI.
Outputs
The main output will be a series of recommendations to the JISC on progressing the UK academic SDI. This "roadmap" will be presented in the context of the EDINA e-Framework study.
Participants
Roger Longhorn (confirmed)
Chris Higgins (confirmed)
Andrew Woolf (confirmed)
Kristin Stock (confirmed)
Richard Sinnott (confirmed)
Andy Turner (confirmed)
Kamie Kitmitto (cant make it)
Stuart Dunn (confirmed)
Jon Blower (cant make it)
Phil James (confirmed)
Ben Butchart (confirmed)
Jeremy Morley (confirmed)
Some briefing documents for participants
Developing the UK's e-infrastructure for science and innovation
Geospatial resources use in tertiary education
Extracts from What is web 2.0 - JISC report 2007
Introduction to INSPIRE
Location-based experiences JISC Report
Research - Synthesis of Strategies by RCUK
Stewardship of digital research data by RIN
Students and Information Use - April 2008
Vision for research by RCUK
Workshop report
Academic SDI Technical Architecture Workshop
Comments (3)
Peter Halls said
at 2:24 pm on Jul 11, 2008
We need to better communicate the important role that SDI will play in enhancing end user experience: at present, this, if 'seen' at all, is seen to be irrelevant to the ordinary user.
stuartdunn said
at 9:28 pm on Aug 28, 2008
I think a key thing is going to be the role of institutions. A key feature of most JISC services is that uptake of them is serendipitous, and determined to a great extent by local provison, and even geographical proximity to the service's hosting university. Our SDI needs to respond to that in a very sophisticated way, I think...
Andy Turner said
at 4:04 pm on Aug 29, 2008
I'll put my notes on a web page at the following URL:
http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/events/SDITechArchitecture2008-08-29/
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