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Launch of Greening Events II: Event Amplification Report
I’m pleased to announce the official launch of the Greening Events II: Event Amplification Report. This work has been carried out as part of the UKOLN Innovation Support Centre’s work for the JISC-funded Greening Events II project, which is being led by the University of Bristol. The report documents best practices for the organisation of amplified events, which can not only help to raise the visibility and impact of ideas discussed at conferences and provide accessibility benefits for those who might not be able to attend an...
read moreSakai-Jasig plenary talk on the changing role of the developer in HE
I have just given an invited plenary talk at the joint Sakai/Jasig Conference in Atlanta, on The Changing Role of the Developer in HE. Introducing the notion of the connected developer, and describing how the DevCSI project has supported the growth of a community of ‘connected developers’ in HE in the UK, I went on to describe the need for a new role – the Strategic Developer – one which can provide a developer perspective to institutional strategic decision-making. The talk appears to have generated considerable...
read moreWeb Accessibility: Putting People and Processes First
Recent work on policy approaches for the provision of accessible Web products has been featured in an article on Web Accessibility: Putting People and Processes First which has been published in the E-Access Bulletin, May 2012. The article is based on a paper on ‘A Challenge to Web Accessibility Metrics and Guidelines: Putting People and Processes First’ which was presented recently at W4A 2012, the 9th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility. The paper argues that standards such as WCAG assume that...
read moreTimes Higher Education Article on ISC Work on Evidence of Metrics for Social Media Use in HEIs
The THE (Times Higher Education) Scholarly Web column on Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere highlights recent surveys of institutional use of social media which are aimed at helping to inform policy decisions on use of such services through gathering of evidence of take-up. The article describes how: Mr Kelly took Facebook usage by Russell Group universities as his starting point for research to “gather evidence to support discussions on the relevance of use of Facebook in the higher education sector”. By tallying the...
read moreTweeting the London Riots
Emma Tonkin, Technical Innovation Coordinator at the Innovation Support Centre, was recently interviewed by a journalist from Science about some analysis she conducted into how the riots in the UK last summer were covered on Twitter. Emma collaborated with researchers from the University of Bath, Bristol University and New Mexico State University. I was pleased to learn today that an article, which references Emma and her work, has appeared in Science. This represents an interesting application of Emma’s expertise in text mining and...
read moreUK presence at upcoming euroCRIS conference
The biennial euroCRIS conference takes place in Prague next week (CRIS 2012, 6-9 June), with a growing UK presence. Looking at the programme, there are six UK papers, up from three in 2010. This is a clear indication of the significant impact of JISC programmes including Research Information Management (RIM), within the international CRIS community. The UK papers include presentations of JISC RIM and Managing Research Data (MRD) project findings as well as work not directly funded by JISC (abeit closely related). Mahendra Mahey of the...
read moreBiblioHack in the Summertime
The Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open Biblio Group, DevCSI and the Working Group on Open Data in Cultural Heritage, present BiblioHack, an open Hackathon to kick-start the summer months: http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/2012/05/10/bibliohack/ From Wednesday 13 – Thursday 14 June 2012, we’ll be meeting at Queen Mary, University of London, East London, and any budding hackers are welcome, along with anyone interested in opening up metadata and the open cause. This free event aims to bring together software developers, project...
read moreManaging 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)
Please note extended paper/extended abstract submission deadline: May 30, 2012 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...
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