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Digimap is an online map and data delivery service, available by subscription to UK Higher and Further Education establishments. Operated by EDINA at the University of Edinburgh, Digimap offers a number of data collections, including Ordnance Survey, historical, geological, aerial photography, LiDAR, marine maps, land cover mapping, global mapping and census data. For more information about Digimap go to our website: https://digimap.edina.ac.uk Background image Contains OS data (c) Crown Copyright and database right 2022
If your institution subscribes to Historic Digimap, you should note that the current licence ends on 31 July 2008 and the new licence begins on 1 August 2008. Subscription costs for the next licence period are now available from JISC Collections website.
All subscription forms should be completed and sent to the JISC Collections Helpdesk. Details of the subscription process can be found on the JISC Collections “how to subscribe” page.
Please do not send subscription forms to EDINA.
Note also that from 1 August 2008 access to Historic Digimap will be via the UK Federation and OpenAthens.
Are you coming to the end of your course? Are you changing jobs and moving to a different University or College? Are you retiring? If so, there are some issues relating to the use of Digimap which you should be aware of.
IF YOU ARE GRADUATING, OR YOUR COURSE IS COMING TO AN END… …you will cease to be a member of a subscribing institution and therefore will no longer be a Digimap Authorised User. This means you must delete any data you hold from Digimap. You may keep paper maps (including those which form parts of reports, coursework and dissertations), but not digital data.
IF YOU ARE CHANGING JOBS OR MOVING TO A DIFFERENT COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY…
…you need to check whether your new institution subscribes to any of the Digimap Collections. If your new institution is NOT a subscriber to a particular Collection, you may not retain any digital data from that Collection in your new job. If you wish to use Digimap in your new job, and your new institution is also a subscribing institution, you will need to register with Digimap using login credentials from your new institution.
IF YOU ARE LEAVING AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION AND GOING TO WORK FOR A COMMERCIAL OR CHARITABLE ORGANISATION…
…you will cease to be a Digimap Authorised User. This means you must delete any data you hold from Digimap. You may keep paper copies of maps (including those which form part of reports or dissertations), but not digital data.
WHAT IFS…
There are some circumstances where you may continue to be an Authorised User, even if you are graduating, or leaving your current institution. If you are retiring, you may continue to have rights to access your institution’s electronic resources. If you are graduating from your first degree and staying at the same institution to undertake a PhD, you will continue to be a member of your institution and therefore eligible for access to Digimap. If you believe you should continue to have access to your institution’s resources, you should check with your Digimap site representative whether this applies to Digimap too.
The rules of eligibility apply to all Digimap Collections. These rules revolve around the definition of “Authorised User” as specified in the licence agreement for each Collection. You can find these on the EDINA website at: http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/terms.shtml
A NOTE FOR SITE REPRESENTATIVES… Access to any electronic resource relies on subscribing institutions maintaining authentication and authorisation systems effectively and efficiently. An example of good practice in this regard would be deactivating local user accounts when students graduate or leave your institution. You may wish to check what your local practice is.
This is a short reminder that all Digimap services and facilities will be unavailable from 09.00 hours until 17.30 hours tomorrow, Tuesday 13 May 2008. This is to allow for routine hardware and software maintenance.
Full service will be restored as soon as possible, but you should not rely on Digimap being available during the above hours.
On Tuesday 6 May 2008, a new release of Carto was made available through Digimap’s Ordnance Survey Collection. This new release works with both Internet Explorer and Firefox, on Windows XP and using the latest version of the Java plugin.
Carto is available through Digimap’s Ordnance Survey Collection. You can read more about the requirements for using Carto in the Digimap Help pages.
If you cannot access Digimap because you have forgotten your password, you will need to talk to someone at your institution, maybe in your Library, Computing Services, Learning Resources Centre or Information Services, to be reminded of it or have it reset.
EDINA does not know your password, and cannot give you a new one. Try searching your institution’s portal or website for information about access to electronic resources and what to do if you have forgotten your password.
Places are now available for all 3 days of the following free Digimap training course, open to staff members in UK higher and further education institutions.
Venue: University of Sussex, Brighton
Date: 10-12 June 2008 (Tuesday-Thursday)
Even if you have attended a previous Digimap course, you may wish to attend again since the courses are updated each academic year.
Full details of the training course are available from the Events and Training section of our website. You can also book a place via the online registration form, linked from the event page.
All EDINA training courses are FREE OF CHARGE. Regretfully, however, we will charge £25.00 for each day of unnotified absence from a course. This is due to the increasing number of no-shows at courses. Lunch will be provided for all full-day attendees and light refreshments will be available throughout the day.
Training courses are a great opportunity to learn more about Digimap Collections, and how to make best use of them at your institution. You can attend as many days of the Digimap course as you wish. We would be grateful if you would pass this invitation along to colleagues who may also be interested in this training.
Even if your institution does not subscribe to any Digimap Collection, please come along and see what the services offer. If you have any questions about Digimap training in general, or this course in particular, please do not hesitate to contact us on 0131 650 3302 or by email on edina@ed.ac.uk
All Digimap services and facilities will be unavailable between 0900 hours and 1730 hours on Tuesday 13 May. The machine on which Digimap runs requires some maintenance work which cannot be done “out of hours” or within the duration of a normal “at risk” period. This is why we have scheduled a full day for the work to be done. Unfortunately, it is not possible to run the service while the work is being carried out.
This period of service maintenance has been advertised on the Digimap login page since Friday 11 April 2008. All Digimap site representatives will be notified by email.
Following numerous discussions with members of the Digimap user community, we have decided to try a more up-to-date means of distributing information. We have started a blog!
The objective of this blog is to provide regular updates to Digimap users, relating to forthcoming service changes, service downtimes, changes to available data, frequently asked questions on how to do things and what’s available. We also hope to bring you news of various events which might be of interest to Digimap users, and will also post here calls for assistance or feedback.
You can subscribe to the RSS feed for this blog, so that each new post is piped directly to you. You can do this by clicking on the “Atom” link at the bottom of this post and following the instructions. Alternatively, you can click on the Subscribe to RSS feed link on the right hand side of this page. Don’t worry, this will not be the only place the information posted here is available. We will continue to post messages on the Digimap website (http://edina.ac.uk/digimap) and will continue to send email relating to important matters. We hope that this blog will be an easier way for some people to pick up information, rather than it being a replacement means of publishing information.
