2003-R-geoXwalk – A Gazetteer Server and Service for UK Academia.pdf

geoXwalk – A Gazetteer Server and Service for UK Academia Introduction The JISC promotes the innovative This paper will summarise work application and use of information undertaken on behalf of the UK academic by James Reid * systems and information technology in community to evaluate and develop a FE and HE across the UK by providing gazetteer server and service which will vision and leadership and funding the underpin geographic searching within network infrastructure, Information and the UK distributed academic information Communications Technology (ICT) network. It will outline the context and and information services, development problem domain, and report on issues projects and high quality materials for investigated and the findings to date. education. Fig. 1 provides an architectural Lastly, it will pose some unresolved questions requiring summary of how JISC manages these areas within what further research and speculate on possible future directions. is referred to as the JISC ʻInformation Environmentʼ (JISC IE). The JISC IE provides access to heterogeneous The Context resources for academia, including bibliographic, The Joint Inform