Ed Bremner is a research officer within the ISC at UKOLN.  He is currently working on the JISC funded Discovery Project in conjunction with MIMAS that aims to create ‘a metadata ecology’ to support better access […]

Rosemary Russell is a research officer within the ISC. Her current work focuses on Research Information Management (RIM) and the provision of support and advice for the JISC RIM programme. This includes writing […]

I’ve recently started work on a technical assessment report for the JISC. The report will look at projects that were funded within the JISC Information Environment (Inf11) programme. This programme ran from April […]

Natasha Bishop is the Events and Marketing Manager within UKOLN. She is responsible for organising and managing events which include international conferences, workshops and seminars.

Natasha has been the event […]

Julian Cheal is the Systems Developer at UKOLN. He is responsible for organising and managing the servers and infrastructure.

See also: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/j.cheal/

UKOLN has a vacancy for a national coordinator to support the engagement of the UK HE sector in the implementation of the Common European Research Information Format (CERIF).

The post requires a broad knowledge […]

Last week I participated in a useful kickoff meeting for projects funded in the third phase of the JISC Research Information Management programme (RIM3). There are just two projects in this phase, CERIF in Action […]

One way to demonstrate possible uses for IEMSR – practical use and integration into various systems.  What about a Firefox extension?

No – we didn’t make a whole Firefox extension, but we did modify one, the <a title="Dublin Core Viewer information" href="http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/528&quot; […]

We tested the QR Code facility in this year’s Dev8D booklet… here’s a sneak preview.

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The interest in exploiting the content to be found in institutional repositories is growing. At the same time, there is a range of possible uses for a central cache of metadata records held by institutional […]

Introduction
When we talk about social media sites, we tend to focus on a number of well-known examples – Facebook, YouTube, and so forth. Yet there are many international social media sites of all kinds. This […]

eBooks have been around for almost 4 decades now. The earliest eBooks were those in Project Gutenberg, the oldest digital library, founded in 1971.  eBooks and eReaders have gained a lot of popularity in the last […]

According to a series of posts on the ml-class forum, a series of apparently-free Stanford-inspired* distance-learning ten-week classes are currently expected to start in January/February 2012. Note that as […]

It’s fairly easy to setup and install the Android SDK on Linux. For starters, the fact that you don’t need a Mac, and that it’s freely available really helps. The Android developers website is very resourceful and […]

As part of our eBook usability study, this part deals with studying the devices from the eBook reader point of view. All three devices,  Apple iPad 2, Amazon Kindle DX and Motorola XOOM have eBook reading […]

This is a early test project for enabling wake-on-lan. It is very integration based and works with CAS, Bath Person Finder and the network.

Font support in browsers has always been a bit hit and miss. While support is improving, the only real way to have nice crisp fonts, particularly in the larger sizes, is to alias your own images in […]

Blog posts

My Predictions for 2012
29 December 2011

Brian Kelly predicts how 2012 technology environments are likely to develop in four areas: open practices, learning and knowledge analytics, social […]

UKOLN launched its Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) series in 1997.  This year IWMW 2012, the 16th in the workshop series which is aimed at those with responsibilities for providing institutional web […]