We have started to put some of our IGIBS data into GeoDoc. We will have a couple of datasets showing land use change particularly for forestry for the whole of the Dyfi catchment . There is also some more detailed data from vegetation surveys looking at a series of plots from the different habitat types found in […]
My apologies to the Duke of Wellington for mutating his often quoted call to a jilted mistress about his intimate letters, but the sentiments in the original statement do suggest the power of the publication process to give information a life of its own. If geospatial data were published in a similar way to research […]
I guess that anyone reading this will already know that Shibboleth is an open source federated user authentication infrastructure that allows control of user sign-on between or within an organisation/s. I had a vague memory from childhood Sunday School classes that there was an older meaning to the word apart from the Times crossword type definition of […]
Why is this relevant to IGIBS? I almost hear you say… well there are many reasons but for me the relevance lies in one of the outcomes for the project which is a “best practice model” for a university department’s interaction with the academic SDI. Clearly the INSPIRE regulation could have a very significant impact […]
I have been reading and thinking about the relationship between long term spatial data preservation and the short term needs of day-to-day data security during the life of a research project. With research data being generated at faster and faster rates and the life cycles of supporting technologies getting shorter data preservation is destined to be a […]