1. The Last Ten Years Derek Law, University of Strathclyde

2. Ancient History  20 years ago we saw the first CD-ROMs with 650Mb capacity  today a standard entry-level PC has 80Gb of storage, while 200-1000Gb is not uncommon  The iPod revolution has made higher storage capacity a requirement for a much larger number of users  10 years ago NCSA Mosaic was a novelty and the Web barely acknowledged  FTP, WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers) and Gopher were the technologies of choice  10 years ago Google did not exist  10 years ago SuperJANET2 was launched with speeds ranging from 8-155Mb while dial-up from home could reach as much as 28Kb  today a 100Gb campus network is commonplace  wireless broadband in the home is quite normal

3. Mediaeval History  1991- First dataset contract  1993- SuperJANET contract for 34Mb at 55 universities  1993- NCSA Mosaic web browser  1993 - Follett Report  1995- EDINA selected as a national data centre

4. History  Computer Board  Charged mediated searching still the norm  “A Giant Leap in the Dark”  ISC  The Bath Data Centre  JISC  The Information Services Sub-Committee  The Distributed National Electronic Resource  Five Data Centres  Five Principles  The Doughnut Strategy

5. It all began in the pub…….  The Hand & Racquet in Orange Street  Home of Tommy Cooper  Home of Galton & Simpson  Home of BIDS  “Pragmatism in search of a policy” (Harry East)

6. The Six Principles of the ISSC 1.Free at the point of use 2.Subscription not transaction based >CHEST 3.Universality >All disciplines at all levels 4.Lowest common denominator >A post-1992 mass system not an elite one 5.Commonality of interfaces 6.Common mass instruction programmes >CALT (Awareness, Liaison and Training)

7. The Five Centres  Bath (BIDS)  ESRC Data Archive (Essex)  Arts & Humanities Data Service  EDINA  MIMAS

8. The Doughnut strategy  National deals  A novelty  More data than money so always possible to do another deal  At renewal be part of the solution, or be part of the problem  Be the jam in the doughnut or be the hole  Your call!!

9. The DNER The Distributed National Electronic Collection in 1994 5 Data Centres Resource Discovery (CAIN, EEVL etc.) Funding digitisation The Archives Hub ……..

10. EDINA  Multiple types – bibliographic to geographic  Services  Development  Applications and interoperability  Scalability – now a million pound business  Staff commitment, enthusiasm and expertise  Clear vision  Peter Burnhill

11. EDINA and the 6 Principles 1.Free at the point of use > the jewel in the crown 2.Subscription not transaction based > Remains the funding model 3.Universality >Bibliographic Services, Digimap, Filmfinder 4.Lowest common denominator >Times Index, UPDATE (for FE), Scottish Gathering > Over a million hits a year on OS alone 5.Commonality of interfaces >zBALSA, Xgrain, JOIN-UP, Gateway to Archives 6.Common mass instruction programmes >eMapScholar, National Learning Network

12. A traditional Burn(hill)s Supper  The Immortal Memory  To a Mouse  Address to Edinburgh  First mention of EDINA (true)  An early draft of this poem (false)

13. Address to Edinburgh EDINA! Scotia’s darling seat! All hail thy palaces and towers Where once, beneath a Monarch’s feat Sat Legislation’s sovereign powers: From marking wildly-scattered scripts, As on the banks of Clyde I strayed And logging on, for lingering hours, I shelter in thy honoured shade

14. Address to Edinburgh Thy sons EDINA, social, kind With open arms the stranger hail; Their views enlarged, their liberal mind, Above the narrow, rural vale Attentive still to SHEFC’s wail Or modest JISC’s silent claim And never may their sources fail And never MIMAS blot their name!