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Ariadne Issue 69 Now Available
Ariadne Issue 69 has been published recently with its usual mix of features both technical and more wide-ranging together with event reports and a raft of reviews on recent publications. This issue includes a technical feature from Thom Bunting of the Innovation Support Centre who has described in some detail the requirements, choices and decisions before the ISC team responsible for the re-development of Ariadne Web Magazine. In Moving Ariadne: Migrating and Enriching Content with Drupal Thom recounts the recent migration to a...
read moreTalk on “What Does The Evidence Tell Us About Institutional Repositories?”
As described in a recent post a paper by myself and Jenny Delasalle entitled “Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories?” was presented at the Open Repositories conference, OR 2012. This work was based on activity undertaken by the UKOLN ISC to explore ways in which content hosted in institutional repositories can be made easier to find. Increasingly such work is informed by evidence-based approaches which seek to interpret quantitative evidence of the value of particular approaches. A talk...
read moreCan LinkedIn and Academia.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories? – the Video Summary
As described in a recent post, two papers on work which has been carried out by UKOLN ISC staff were presented at the Open Repositories 2012 conference: Open Metrics for Open Repositories by Brian Kelly, Nick Sheppard, Jenny Delasalle, Mark Dewey, Owen Stephens,Gareth Johnson and Stephanie Taylor and Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories? by Brian Kelly and Jenny Delasalle. The paper which asked Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories? has been summarised in a post on the UK Web Focus...
read morePapers Presented at Open Repositories 2012 Conference
Two peer-reviewed papers which were accepted by the programme committee of the Open Repositories 2012 Conference have been presented at the conference. The papers were: Open Metrics for Open Repositories, Kelly, B., Sheppard, N., Delasalle, J., Dewey, M., Stephens, O., Johnson, G. and Taylor, S. OR2012: the 7th International Conference on Open Repositories, 9-13 July 2012, Edinburgh, Scotland. Paper: [About] – [PDF format] – [MS Word format] Can LinkedIn and Academia.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories? Kelly, B. and...
read moreInnovation Zone: Support for Developments in Repository Infrastructure
Thom Bunting gave a presentation on the Innovation Zone as part of the UK RepositoryNet+: showcase of Wave 1 service components and ideas workshop for Wave 2 session at OR2012. Thom explained that the Innovation Zone is a JISC-funded initiative focussing on supporting developments in repository infrastructure in the UK, managed by the Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN and the RepositoryNet (RepNet) at Edina. Support is within four main areas: technical knowledge-exchange through expert workshops; sharing of key information on...
read moreAdding Google Juice To Your Repository
Brian Kelly of UKOLN ISC presented a poster in the Poster Minute Madness session on Tuesday, promoting the paper “Can LinkedIn and Academic.edu Enhance Access to Open Repositories?” which he co-authored with Jenny Delasalle of the University of Warwick. The poster focusses on the importance of adding ‘Google juice’ to your institutional repository by generating more links to individual papers deposited in an IR. Brian has the largest number of downloads from OPUS, the IR of the University of Bath and he has an...
read moreRIM CERIF workshop in Bristol
The Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN (together with the JISC RIM and RCSI Programmes) organised a workshop in Bristol on 27-28 June on Research Information Management (RIM) and CERIF. The aim was to bring together people working on the various elements of the UK RIM jigsaw to share experience and explore ways of working together more closely. There were around 30 participants over the two days, including JISC RIM and MRD projects and programme managers, support and evaluation projects, Research Councils, funders and repository...
read moreDraft of TechWatch Report on Data-driven Infrastructure Available for Comments
The JISC Observatory service, provided by the ISC at UKOLN and JISC CETIS, is pleased to announce the publication of a preview version of the Preparing for Data-driven Infrastructure TechWatch report. This report, written by Max Hammond, provides an overview of key data-management concepts and approaches as well as practical tools available to Higher Education and Further Education. This report can be used to help organisational planning and to inform data-management strategies. Specifically, the report: describes data-centric...
read moreIWMW 2012
UKOLN’s annual Institutional Web Management Workshop, IWMW 2012, was held at the University of Edinburgh on 18-20 June 2012. The three-day event attracted 172 delegates in total. There were a total of 14 plenary sessions together with 19 parallel sessions. Slides from the plenary talks and several of the parallel sessions are available on the IWMW 2012 web site. In addition video recordings of the plenary talks together with several brief video interviews which were recorded at the event are also available on the UKOLN Vimeo...
read moreGateway to Research endorses CERIF
The Gateway to Research (GtR) decision at an early stage to use CERIF provides a very public endorsement of the standard. The portal is being designed to allow the general public to access information on the research (including related data) funded by the UK’s Research Councils. It is aimed particularly at ‘innovative intensive companies’. GtR was announced by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills in December 2011 as part of the Innovation and Research Strategy which set out the Government’s approach to boosting...
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