tag = #jiscGEO

Please note that this sight is ARCHIVED, please search the JISC website for further information on new SPATIAL innovation programmes of work.

What is this website and who is it for?

This website is an overview of the JISC projects that took place during 2011 in the "JISCGEO" programme of work. "JISCGEO" represents two things: (1) the "Joint Information Systems Committee" ( JISC ) which is the funding organisation behind this set of projects, and (2) " GEO spatial" tools and skills.

This wiki is the personal notebook of the #jiscGEO Programme Manager (David F. Flanders). As this is David's personal notebook it will only really make sense to the him; however, DFF is glad to share his notes with you in an effort to demonstrate transparency and openness. In short, feel free to read but please know these are just notes so please email David for further clarification before assuming anything: d.flanders@jisc.ac.uk

For the official JISC website of the jiscGEO programme please see: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/inf11/jiscGEO <-- please cite this link when referencing this work (do not cite the links in this notebook as they are not persistent)

Aim of Projects in this Programme

The overall aim of the #jiscGEO projects is to make geospatial tools and data more ubiquitous in all University subject areas so that end users can directly benefit from their use and re-use; please see the FAQ for further context and the sidebar links on this page for the historical context on why these set of projects have been funded.

Please find below a search engine, map and list of Projects in the #jiscGEO Programme of work.

Projects in the #jiscGEO Programme

The jiscGEO projects were funded in February of 2011 (they will run for up to 9 months, until November of 2011). These projects represent the first organised cross-sector effort in UK Higher Education Universities to adapt geospatial technology to a range of subject disciplines and institutional capabilities.

Programme Search Engine

Find out how these projects relate to YOUR work, try keywords related to your work in the search engine:

Programme Map

Where are the projects geospatially located?

List of Projects

The following is a list of all the projects in the #jiscGEO programme, each of the "tag" links go through to the wiki page on this site which are the notes by the JISC Programme Manager on the progress of these projects, please see the project's progress blog for up to date information on the specifics of the project. Please do tweet and blog about the projects yourself using their hash "#" tag.

1. Bristol University is hosting the 'Nature Locator' project
• tagged as #naturelocator
• project progress blog: http://naturelocator.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/
2. Edinburgh University is hosting the 'Spatio-Temporal Energy Efficiency Visualisations' project
• tagged as #e3viz
• project progress blog: http://steev.blogs.edina.ac.uk/
3. Edinburgh University is hosting the 'Interoperable Geographic Information for Biosphere Study' project
• tagged as #igibs
• project progress blog: http://igibs.blogs.edina.ac.uk/
4. Essex University is hosting the 'Unlocking the Geospatial potential of survey data at the UK Data Archive'
• tagged as #geoukda
• project progress blog: http://https://geoukda.wordpress.com/
5. The Institute of Education, University of London is hosting the 'Geo tools for Teachers' project
• tagged as #geosciteach
• project progress blog: http://geosciteach.wordpress.com
6. Leeds University is hosting the 'Exploiting geo-spatial datasets to enhance crime analysis and related research methods' project
• tagged as #geocrimedata
• project progress blog: http://geocrimedata.blogspot.com/
7. Leicester University is hosting the 'Improving and Enhancing a Vital Spatial Research Asset' project
• tagged #halogen2
• project progress blog: http://leicesterhalogen2.blogspot.com/
8. Nottingham University is hosting the 'e-Learning Framework for Using Geospatial Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards' project
• tagged as #elogeo
• project progress blog: http://elogeo.blogspot.com
9. The Open University is hosting the 'Document and Integrate Ancient Linked Open Geodata' project
• tagged as #pelagios
• project progress blog: http://pelagios-project.blogspot.com/
10. The School of Advanced Study, University of London is hosting the 'xEvents / Phil Events' project
• tagged as #xevents
• project progress blog: http://xevents-blog.sas.ac.uk/
11. The University College London is hosting the 'Geospatial Engine for Mass Mapping Applications' project
• tagged as #gemmaproject
• project blog: http://gemma.blogs.casa.ucl.ac.uk/
12. The University College London is hosting the 'Bridging the Gap between the GeoWeb and GIS' project
• tagged #jiscg3
• project progress blog: http://jiscg3.blogspot.com/

Programme News Feed

What is going on with these projects right now? - Below is an aggregated list of jiscGEO project blog posts and other related geospatial commentary from around the Web:

• Netvibes page displaying aggregated project blogs posts
• If you would like to add all of these feeds to your blog reader please download this OPML file

What will these projects produce?

The jiscGEO projects represent a balanced portfolio of work that covers various subject disciplines (i.e. sciences, social sciences and humanities), institutional users (i.e. researchers, lecturers/teachers/students and institutional administrators), and products specific to solving real world problems (i.e. tools, services, guidance, advice, etc).

Projects will produce one or more of the following outputs (please see each of the project blogs to see which specific product they will be producing for reuse by the sector):

• Tools, prototypes or approaches that use existing tools for the integration and recombination of information, services and datasets to meet the end user requirements and the project’s research or learning scenario. These will act as exemplars for others to learn from.
• Information and datasets made available or software developer reuse.
• Enhancements to geospatial data, tools, infrastructure and services.
• Data and resources that are geospatially enabled for reuse.
• Evidence of the impact on the research, learning and organisation scenarios
• Outlining successes and gaps with regards to how the HE/FE sector is progressing in their use of geospatial.

All projects MUST produce the following outputs:

• A blog to support the project development and engagement with other projects and wider community.
• Recommendations regarding take-up of geospatial to the wider community.
• Recommendations to improve geospatial tools and to inform the academic Data Infrastructure.
• Documentation on the project experience that will contribute to the community synthesis project and community project. Such documentation must cover, where appropriate, the implementation of interoperability standards, and the use of and take-up of tools and services including issues of policy and skills.

Projects will do their uptmost to engage the wider UK higher education community so that the work will enable other institutions to take advantage of the outputs and experiences, aka please do not hesitate to contact project to ask them questions (projects are subject to FoI).

So what is 'geospatial' and why does it matter to Universities?

For a general guide on geospatial please watch the below video from Penn State University http://geospatialrevolution.psu.edu/ or for more specifics on why JISC groups projects together in Programmes to help affect change see the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions):