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Please note: postponed due to bad weather and cancellations.
This free two-day event will be held in collaboration with the DevCSI project on Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th December 2010 at the Watershed Media […]

Past and present
Up until the present, a number of application profiles have been developed by various metadata experts, with the support of the JISC, with the intention of addressing the needs of practitioners […]

Talat Chaudhri and Stephanie Taylor submitted an entry to the Developer Challenge at Open Repositories 2010 in Madrid, which was received with some interest because it used Open Calais to automatically create […]

Drupal 7 is likely to be released soon, and will include native support for RDFa. The RDF module for Drupal 6 already allows this functionality. Why is this important? Because it makes relationships between […]

EPrints 3.2.0 was released on 10th March 2010. It has some remarkable new features relating to linked data and, consequently, to Dublin Core Application Profiles based on multiple entity domain models such as <a […]

One of the anecdotal remarks that is said a lot about SWAP in particular, but also as a general opinion about the JISC DCAPs, is that they are based on domain models that are too complex. But too complex for […]

We’ve recently started trying out various methodologies for testing whether the different bits of application profiles work for the people trying to use those resources. The main thing to remember is that the […]

Application profiles received considerable attention at the two-day Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting held by JISC at the Aston Business School, Birmingham.

Workshop: Application Profiles in […]

On Monday 27 July, the first trial of methods for user testing for SWAP were conducted at UKOLN. This was very much an internal “dry run”, the success of which leaves us in a strong position to take every […]

The AP Support project and the Metadata Forum will be holding an event at Dev8D+ on 15 February (the day before Dev8D, 16-17 February), to bring practitioners who work in services dealing with images and image […]

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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, […]

Introducing Technical Foundations
The Technical Foundations web site is an important developing strand of ISC activities at UKOLN. It is aimed at those involved in technical innovation in the higher and further […]

The Picture This! event on image metadata was held at Dev8D+ on 15 February 2011 at the University of London Union (ULU) in Bloomsbury, London. It led into the Picture This! Developer Challenge at Dev8D on 16/17 […]

Talat Chaudhri works as a research officer within the ISC. In this role, Talat’s primary responsibility is to develop the Technical Foundations Web site for the JISC, which provides accessible, cutting-edge, […]