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Managing Research Data Hack Days – Event Report
DevCSI recently ran a ‘Managing Research Data Hack event‘ on 3-4 May 2012 in Manchester. The event report has now been published on the DevCSI blog, some highlights include: - Considering the use of SWORD 2 and BitTorrent to deal with large datasets - Proof-of-concept centralised service for tracking activity data around research projects and individual datasets - User perspectives on metadata for datasets and examining a common schema to describe metadata for datasets There are several multimedia interviews with attendees who...
read moreThe Need for Openness for Usage Data across Library Services
A guest editorial on The need for openness for usage data across library services has been published in the UKSG eNews online newsletter dated. 11 May 2012. The editorial is based on a paper on ‘Open Metrics for Open Repositories’ which has been accepted by the Open Repositories 2012 conference which will take place in Edinburgh in July 2012. The paper begins: Increasingly there is a need for quantitative evidence in order to help demonstrate the value of online services. Such evidence can also help to detect emerging...
read moreWorking with text: Tools, techniques and approaches for text mining (Call for papers and participation)
In conjunction with Open Repositories 2012, Edinburgh, Scotland Text mining tools and technologies have a long history in the repository world, where they have been applied successfully for a variety of purposes. These vary from pragmatic aims such as enabling document search and browse facilities, linking related documents, identifying copies or facilitating the deposit process, to support tools for academic research. The latter category includes supporting research on the basis of a large body of documents, facilitating access to and reuse...
read moreAriadne Re-launch: ISC Delivers Enriched Content
In one of the first major internal deliverables within the operations of the Innovation Support Centre, the ISC has recently re-launched the long-established Ariadne Web Magazine on a new platform with a completely new look-and-feel and raft of useful and innovative functionalities. Not only does the publication now offer a wide range of data analysis features to its readers but also provides far more comprehensive information on the origins and background to the published articles. The harnessing of tags in the deployment of this Drupal...
read moreLaunch of JISC Observatory TechWatch Report on “Delivering Web to Mobile”
A JISC Observatory TechWatch Report on Delivering Web to Mobile is now available on the JISC Observatory Web site. As described in the introduction to the report: This report is intended to help staff of UK education institutions, involved in the development of content, gain an understanding of the emerging approaches to delivering services and content for mobile devices using the Web. The following areas are covered in the report: State of the Mobile Web (including UK HEI findings) Mobile Web Browsers Responsive Web Design Mobile...
read moreRIF-CS and CERIF Alignment Study
We have just completed a study which offers a brief, high level comparison of the Registry Interchange Format – Collections and Services (RIF-CS) and CERIF standards. The study assesses the amount of overlap between these two standards, the feasibility of mapping between them as well as the potential usefulness of a completed mapping. The report includes brief overviews of both standards. A draft version of this report may be downloaded from this page. Please note that comments are very welcome, and should be emailed to the author, Emma...
read moreInfluencing Government Policy on Open Standards
Context The UK Government has been working on the development of a policy on use of open standards. A formal public consultation focused on open standards for software interoperability, data and document formats in government IT requirements and sought evidence to inform: the definition of open standard in the context of government IT; the meaning of mandation and the effects compulsory standards may have on government departments, delivery partners and supply chains; international alignment and cross-border interoperability. This...
read moreResponding to Cookie Legislation
A post entitled How is the Higher Education Sector Responding to the Forthcoming Cookie Legislation? has been published on the UK Web Focus blog which summarises work in advising the UK’s higher and further education sector on appropriate responses to the ‘cookie’ legislation which comes into force on 26 May 2012. In May 2011 a survey of Privacy Settings For UK Russell Group University Home Pages was followed by a post which asked How Should UK Universities Respond to EU Cookie Legislation? The suggested answer was...
read moreIWMW 2012 Open For Bookings
Bookings are now open for UKOLN’s annual Institutional Web Management Workshop, IWMW 2012. This year’s event will be held at the University of Edinburgh on 18-20 June. We have reverted back to the three-day format for this year’s event and since we’ll be starting on the opening morning (rather than after lunch) we are able to provide a fuller programme than usual, with 11 plenary talks and 20 parallel sessions. Further details about the plenary talks is given in a post on the UK Web Focus...
read moreBrigitte Jörg and the CERIF Support Project
We are delighted to announce that we have recruited Brigitte Jörg to the Innovation Support Centre, to be the National Coordinator for our new JISC-funded CERIF Support Project. Brigitte will be joining us in June 2012, when the project begins. Together with JISC, the Innovation Support Centre recognises the growing importance of CERIF in the research information management landscape in the UK – our own Rosemary Russell has recently published a study on this. Brigitte has a very high level of expertise with CERIF and will bring strong...
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