GRADE project
Scoping a Geospatial Repository for Academic Deposit and Extraction
Project Description
Conventional scientific method has historically been data-driven and with current technologies the wealth of created data assets has grown dramatically. Despite this importance, however, sharing data is not easy and many researchers have discussed the problems, including: the willingness to share, locating data, mechanisms for sharing and accessing data. Given these problems, the scoping of a Geospatial Repository for Academic Deposit and Extraction (GRADE) seems both necessary and timely.
GRADE will investigate and report on the technical and cultural issues around the reuse of geospatial data within the JISC IE in the context of media-centric, informal and institutional repositories.
The aim of GRADE is to lay the foundations for a sustainable infrastructure (both cultural and technical) that underwrites the communities’ substantial and ongoing investment in the utilisation of geospatial resources within the learning, teaching and research environments of UK academia.
Project Staff
Project Partners
EDINA (lead)
The Arts and Humanities Research Council Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law
University of Southampton, Southampton Oceanography Centre
Project Management
Dr David Medyckyi-Scott
Research and Geo-data Services Manager, EDINA National Data Centre
d.medyckyj-scott@ed.ac.uk