The concept of ScotLIS can be traced back almost 10 years and arose out of a number of initiatives designed to take advantage of the developing new technology to deliver information and services to a wider audience. One of these was the Citizens Charter which contained a commitment to allow UK citizens “faster and easier access to an authoritative, accurate, and comprehensive public record of all land and property”

While much work has been done in developing the concept by a number of interested parties, the delivery of such a service has until now been difficult to achieve. It was decided that the best way forward was to create a pilot ScotLIS service based primarily on land and property information related to the Glasgow area. In 1999, funds were made available from the governments Invest to Save initiative and this has part-funded the more recent project works.