On the closure of Edina's Unlock service
This is a guest post by Julie Allinson, Technology Development Manager for Library & Archives at York. Julie managed the technical side of the ' York's Archbishops' Registers Revealed ' project. This post discusses the demise of Edina's Unlock service and wonders how sustainable open data services are. It has recently come to my attention that Edina are retiring their ' Unlock ' service on the 31st July 2016. Currently that's all I know as, AFAIK, Edina haven't provided any background or any information about why, or what users of this service might do instead. I also wasn't aware of any kind of consultation with users. Edina's message about the Unlock service - not very informative. At York we've been using Unlock to search the DEEP gazetteer of English place names in our Archbishops' Registers editing tool. DEEP is a fantastic resource, an online gazetteer of the 86 volume corpus of the Survey of English Place-Names (SEPN). Wit