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Building a digital ‘Hub’ as a gateway to a broad set of toolkits to facilitate improved access and better use of NERC’s data. https://www.digital-solutions.uk/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/nerc-digital-solutions-hub/
Event graphic and location details - Sister, Renold Building, Manchester
⏰ Final few tickets left for our Digital Environment Conference!
🖥️ Join us in redefining how data, AI and digital infrastructure transform environment, insight, action and governance.
🎟️ 1st April 10:00 - 17:00 at SISTER Manchester
🆓 The event is free and everyone is welcome bit.ly/3MmTtAC
Join us on 26 Nov at @manchester.ac.uk for an event to discuss digital solutions to sustainable housing expansion with a panel of experts, and try out the DSH.
To register, please email digital-solutions@manchester.ac.uk with your name, role, organisation, and any dietary/access requirements.
We are delighted to announce that we'll be presenting at Government Digital and Data's DataConnect25 Conference on 13 November 🎉
🕐 13:00 - 13:55 GMT
🗓️ Thursday 13 November 2025
📍 Online
🔗 Register for free: events.ringcentral.com/events/datac...
What examples of data sets can you expect to search for, visualise and analyse on the Hub?
We asked some of our team what they are most looking forward to see and this is what they said👇
Learn more: www.digital-solutions.uk/index.php/da...
A promotional graphic advertising the 'Data and Decision Making: Shaping UK Housing Policy' event on 26th November 13:30 - 16:30. Branding for The University of Manchester, Policy@Manchester and UKRI Natural Environment Research Council and the Digital Solutions Hub is included.
Do you work in planning, a housing association or housing policy in local or national government? 🏘️
Join us for this event on 26 Nov by emailing digital-solutions@manchester.ac.uk with your name, role, organisation and any dietary/access requirements.
What would you do if you found out a site for one of the UK Government's new towns was on Grade 1 and 2 agricultural land and a flood plain? 🤔
Read about our user testing workshop for the DSH and how access to this data is vital for policy decisions: www.digital-solutions.uk/index.php/pu...
This morning we ran our user-testing workshop for delegates at the NERC Digital Gathering 2025 at Cranfield University 👏
Sign up to be the first to find out about our upcoming user-testing workshops taking place over the winter: lnkd.in/euuxYhgH
The DSH team has been getting stuck into the NERC Digital Gathering 2025! Take a look at what we've been up to so far👇
Come and join us for our user testing workshop tomorrow morning at 9am to try out the NERC DSH in Lecture Room 6👋
Learn more: linktr.ee/nercdsh
"NERC Digital Gathering 2025" featuring a purple background with a stylized map design. Center text reads "DSH Digital Solutions Hub will be at the NERC Digital Gathering 2025." Top left corner displays The University of Manchester logo and "Manchester 1824." Top right corner shows the UKRI Natural Environment Research Council logo. Bottom left corner includes a white block with the event dates "7–9 October."
Are you heading along to the NERC Digital Gathering at Cranfield University in October? We'll see you there 👋
Come along to our workshop on Thursday 9th October, 9:00 - 10:20am, led by Prof. Richard Kingston, to try out the Hub as part of our user testing.
The University of Manchester logo is in the top left. The Digital Solutions Hub logo is in the top right. In the centre there is a search bar that has text in it. The text reads 'How will the DSH help to inform planning?'. The background is a housing development in the UK.
Policymakers and planners will be able to use the data on the NERC Digital Solutions Hub to inform their decisions on where, how and when to build new housing, data centres, schools etc.
Read more: blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2024/1...
There are multiple benefits to using the NERC Digital Solutions Hub in your data journey:
✅ AI chat bots to help discover datasets.
✅ Accessible to all, no matter the experience level.
✅ One hub that makes data search, visualisation and analysis easy and efficient.
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Be one of the first to try out the Hub in user testing by signing up to our mailing list: www.digital-solutions.uk/index.php/si...
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This image has the Digital Solutions Hub logo in large at the top. Underneath the logo is a search bar that reads 'Is the Digital Solutions Hub useful to me?'. The background is a faint simple map in purple. At the bottom of the image is text that reads 'Search, Visualise, Analyse' - with 'analyse' in larger font for emphasis.
Users are enabled to tell stories with their data to create impact and add value to their decision making through trusted evidence.
👉Read more about the value of the DSH and who it is designed for: digital-solutions.uk/index.php/hu...
The text on this graphic reads 'Analyse data from trusted sources, as well as your own integrated data, easily in the Hub.'
Analyse and tell stories with 40+ petabytes of environmental data on the NERC Digital Solutions Hub 📝
📩 Sign up to our mailing list to be one of the first to test the Hub and see for yourself how incremental the DSH is in transforming geospatial: digital-solutions.uk/index.php/si...
How will the @nercdsh.bsky.social allow users to visualise data to enhance place-based decision making by using trustworthy AI-powered search?👇
Start your data journey with the DSH 🚀
Learn more: www.linkedin.com/posts/nerc-d...
TRUST. AI POWERED-SEARCH. Two key themes that came up during our user research and this AI Chat Bot feature ticks both ✅
Learn from our AI Engineer as he explains the AI Chat Bot feature on the DSH: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
If this sounds like a toolkit that may be of use to your in your work, sign up to our mailing list to join our user testing later this year and be one of the first to try out the NERC Digital Solutions Hub - www.digital-solutions.uk/index.php/si... 📩
15.08.2025 10:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The NERC Digital Solutions Hub will:
✅ Allow non-experts to search for, map and visualise data in an easy to navigate Hub.
✅ Facilitate faster and informed decision-making for policy and planning.
✅ Enable users to export PDF reports on the relevant datasets in their area of focus for easy analysis.
The key to the DSH is that you can visualise, map and overlay a wide variety of data sets all within the toolkit, ready to conduct your analysis 🔑
🏘️ Learn more about how the DSH can support the building of 1.5 million homes: www.linkedin.com/posts/nerc-d...
A yellow background image with a faint map pattern. Top left features The University of Manchester logo with the text 'MANCHESTER 1824 The University of Manchester.' Top right displays the DSH Digital Solutions Hub logo. Centered large white text reads 'Visualise' with smaller text underneath: 'and map data relevant to your policy area, question or area of interest.' Bottom center includes logos for UKRI and the Natural Environment Research Council.
Did you know that the NERC DSH will allow users to easily map and visualise data within the online Hub, without the need for specific software?
Don't forget to sign up to our newsletter for early access to the Hub later this year.
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Read our latest update from our Director on how we are:
✅ Using AI in the Hub
✅ Producing a tool that users want and can trust
✅ Applying a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approach
Find out where we are up to, and what we are working on next: www.digital-solutions.uk/index.php/ge...
How are we creating a digital hub that is actually useful for environmental data users? 🤷
AI and large language models will allow users of the Digital Solutions Hub to easily search and discover over 40 petabytes of environmental data.
Watch the video here: www.linkedin.com/posts/nerc-d...
How is the NERC Digital Solutions Hub using AI and large language models to aid easy search and discovery of environmental data? 🤖
Find out by listening to Professor Richard Kingston's full talk from the GEO Business 2025 Conference last month: youtu.be/FBvSzpnQcQI
What data will be available to search for and discover on the DSH?
We asked some of our team what data they are most looking forward to seeing on the DSH... what would your answer be? 🤔- www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Green background with a faint map design. Centered large white text reads 'DSH' with a small purple square on the bottom left of the 'D'. Below it, smaller white text says 'Digital Solutions Hub'. A search bar underneath contains the text 'What data will be on the Digital Solutions Hub?' with a magnifying glass icon on the left and an 'X' on the right. A purple arrow pointing right is at the bottom of the image.
40 petabytes of data is equivalent to 15 billion ebooks or 3512 years scrolling through TikTok📱
This is the amount of environmental, health, economic and social data, that will be available to access on the NERC Digital Solutions Hub.
👉 Find out more: digital-solutions.uk/index.php/da...
This graphic has The University of Manchester logo in the top left corner. It has the Digital Solutions Hub logo in the top right corner. In the bottom middle is the Natural Environment Research Council logo. The main feature of the image is the text in the middle that reads 'Search' in large font, with 'and discover over 40 petabytes of environmental, social, economic and health data.' in smaller font underneath.
Search over 40 petabytes of environmental, social, economic and health data on the DSH🔍
Follow along to discover how we are using #AI and #LLMs to facilitate easy search and discovery of data sets.
👉Find out more about the NERC Digital Solutions Hub: digital-solutions.uk
We asked some of our team what three words come to mind when thinking about the NERC Digital Solutions Hub, let's see what they said👇
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🔍 Search 🗺️ Visualise 📈 Analyse
Learning from 2 years of user experience research with environmental data users, the NERC Digital Solutions Hub will deliver in ways that other tools fall short.
👉 Read more about our user experience research findings: www.digital-solutions.uk/wp-content/u...
Can't wait to get your hands on 40+ petabytes of environmental data in one easy to use Hub? Join our user testing in the Autumn for early access to the Digital Solutions Hub🍁
Register for our mailing list to gain access to our Autumn user testing: www.digital-solutions.uk/index.php/si...
This week we joined the Better Data Team in The Scottish Government to present 2 years of user needs research as part of their 'Responsible and Inclusive Data Practices' series 📊
👉Read our user needs research report: www.digital-solutions.uk/index.php/th...
