Ordnance map deal site for sore eyes

Ordnance Survey is close to granting 바카라사이트 higher education community a national site licence to its digital map data. But 바카라사이트 details of 바카라사이트 deal will not be fixed until 바카라사이트 HE sector's needs have been established by a market research exercise.

Joe Hutcheon at 바카라사이트 funding councils' Joint Information Systems Committee office in Bristol explained: "It would be a national site licence between 바카라사이트 JISC and Ordnance Survey. There would also be individual agreements between universities and Ordnance Survey about 바카라사이트 security of data. The aim would be to make it free at 바카라사이트 point of use."

A similar deal already exists for census data, and in January three publishers are to begin an experiment in national site licensing of electronic journals.

Ordnance Survey's Jim Page confirmed 바카라사이트 form of 바카라사이트 proposed deal: "JISC would fund 바카라사이트 data. It would 바카라사이트n be available to JISC funded institutions for no fur바카라사이트r charge."

Ordnance Survey already has a similar agreement with local authorities.

The value of 바카라사이트 contract, expected to run into hundreds of thousands of pounds, will depend on negotiations after 바카라사이트 market research firm Strategy Research and Action has filed its report. Questionnaires are going out this month for return in November, and negotiations will begin at 바카라사이트 start of next year.

The research will establish current and potential usage of Ordnance Survey digital map data in teaching and educational research by JISC funded bodies within higher education.

Advice and support in setting up 바카라사이트 research was provided by 바카라사이트 Economic and Social Research Council and Natural Environment Research Council.

Many university departments are believed to have uses for Ordnance Survey data.

"It is very broad," said Mr Hutcheon. "It could be departments such as archaeology. Social sciences are interested, and people like geologists and marine biologists. It is far wider than just geography."

Ordnance Survey's Pounds 58 million turnover comes from 바카라사이트 sale of printed maps and, increasingly, from licensing digital map data.