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• National Open Datasets: These datasets are shared under an Open Government Licence. After creating and logging into a free Spatial Hub user account, anyone can access these datasets as file downloads or web service connections for any purpose they like.
• National Premium Datasets: Access to these datasets varies depending on which sector you represent:
• Public Sector Organisations: These organisations and their members can access data once their Spatial Hub account is registered against the correct PSGA organisation. Please contact us to request this.
• Academic Institutions: These organisations and their members can access data via EDINA’s DigiMap service ([Final text TBC])
• External Organisations/Users: Comprising commercial and third sector organisations, (i.e., non-public sector or academic) and individual members of the general public, these users can access data via one of our commercial partner organisations (list TBC). Please contact us to determine your eligibility for this.
• Other (Not Open) Datasets: Certain datasets (usually contributed by commercial or third sector organisations) can only be accessed by selected organisations or people via bespoke agreements. Please contact us for more details

‘Organisation’ is the umbrella term used to refer to all providers (and non-individual users) of data to the Spatial Hub. Individual users can be members of an Organisation, and access permissions can vary depending on how their organisation is categorised.

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To access a published dataset go to the Datasets section [TJ4.1]of the site and find your dataset of interest. You can then view the Metadata and/or a Preview of the spatial extent of the data on a map. To access the data itself to use in a suitable application you must first have registered and logged in to a free Spatial Hub account. Then you can either download a copy of it in [formats tbc] or connect to a web service [formats tbc]. All Open Datasets are accessible with a free user account, but the ‘Premium’ datasets require access via a PSGA organisation or commercial license agreement. To associate your account with an eligible organisation, please contact us.

If you need to provide a new version of a resource (whether via file upload or API link), please provide a brand-new resource, containing the entire amended dataset, which we will then process and publish at the next available opportunity. Do not attempt to edit a previously provided resource, as the Spatial Hub will not recognise this as a 'new' resource and any changes will not register.

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There are three key stages of the Spatial Hub’s data curation work:
1. Data Collection: The IS have developed strong relationships with local authority data custodians and specialists which allows us to receive regular updates of raw spatial data via file uploads and/or web service processes.
2. Data Processing: Every three months, the collected data updates are quality assessed, cleaned, standardised, and amalgamated into national datasets. The processing is done using different pieces of data manipulation software running a series of bespoke transformational techniques.
3. Data Publication: Finally, the standardised national datasets are published. They are available as web services and a variety of file downloads. Metadata records for the national datasets are maintained on the Scottish Spatial Data Infrastructure (SSDI), to where there are direct links from each of the Spatial Hub dataset homepages.

You should use the following text: “Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right {current year} and Scottish local authority data from the Spatial Hub”. You may also need to include your OS licence number if you are using OS data as a basemap.