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Ariadne 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...
read moreJISC RIM2: HEIs need a better understanding of CERIF
This is the third in a series of posts on the JISC Research Information Management (RIM) Programme second phase synthesis, aiming to highlight common themes from the programme, as well as some of the lessons learned. Three of the four RIM2 projects discussed the need for better understanding of CERIF in institutions, a topic which still frequently arises in any discussions of CERIF. It is notable that BRUCE, the project with the least previous experience of CERIF, commented on the inital steep learning curve: ‘even staff with extensive...
read moreLaunch of SWORD Version 2
The second version of the SWORD resource deposit protocol, designed primarily to enable the deposit of scholarly works into content repositories, has now been released.
read moreKnowledge Exchange Digital Author Identifier Summit
An important milestone meeting on digital identifiers was held earlier this week in the Tower Hill area of London by the Knowledge Exchange, an international information science strategy group representing the UK, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. There were also representatives present from a number of other countries including Australia, Italy, Norway, the United States, from the international publisher Elsevier and from the ORCID initiative. The meeting at the former Royal Mint, convened by the JISC on 13-14 March 2010, focussed on Digital Author Identifiers and was primarily concerned with uniquely identifying researchers and other academic staff in a cost-effective, internationally agreed and scalable way that has not hitherto been achieved.
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