The JISC Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) blog has recently published a post entitled Maximising online resource effectiveness in which reference is made to a report in PDF format of the same name. This SCA report includes in Section 10 a case study on the use of social media in support of UKOLN’s annual Institutional Web Management Workshop of last year (IWMW 2010).
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SCA Report Features Case Study of Use of Social Media at IWMW 2010
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011UKOLN Update: April 2011
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011The recently released issue of UKOLN Update, a monthly newsletter, provides an overview of UKOLN work during April 2011. It highlights key news features, blog posts, presentations, and events related to staff activities.
Most frequently used words in UKOLN blogs, April 2011
Report on Augmented Reality on Smartphones: Feedback Invited
Thursday, April 28th, 2011Feedback is invited on a TechWatch report entitled Augmented Reality for Smartphones which has been commissioned by UKOLN. The report, which has been written by Ben Butchart, Edina, has been mentioned in the April issue of Wired by Bruce Sterling:
This is a fine piece of comprehensive research work. If you’re an AR developer or content guy, you’re gonna want a printout of this lying around, so you can brandish it at people. You’ll look like you know what you’re talking about!
Comments on the report are invited until Friday 6 May 2011. After that the final version of the report will be released.
Data Management Planning at ICED11
Thursday, April 14th, 2011A paper written by the ERIM Project team has been accepted for presentation at the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED11), to be held over 15-18 August 2011 in Copenhagen. The paper, Data Management Planning in Engineering Design and Manufacturing Research by Mansur Darlington, Alex Ball, Tom Howard, Chris McMahon and Steve Culley, will explain how the project characterised the nature of engineering research data and developed a modelling technique for visualising its context.
The ERIM Project is a JISC-funded collaboration between the Innovative Design and Manufacturing Research Centre at the University of Bath, and UKOLN in its capacity as part of the UK Digital Curation Centre.
I2S2 Benefit Use Cases
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011The I2S2 Project is pleased to announce the availability of two benefit use cases.
The Infrastructure for Integration in Structural Sciences (I2S2) Project is identifying requirements for a data-driven research infrastructure in ‘Structural Science’, focusing primarily on the domains of Chemistry and Crystallography. A key aim of I2S2 has been to develop use cases that examine the business processes of research, identify the costs and benefits of the integrated approach proposed by I2S2, and explore perspectives of ‘scale and complexity’ and ‘research discipline’ throughout the data lifecycle. During the course of the project, the complementary but often different perspectives of researchers and central facilities in terms of benefits were also recognised as significant and built into the use cases.
The I2S2 Cost/Benefit Use Case 1 (National Crystallography Service) traverses administrative boundaries between institutions and addresses issues of scale (local lab to mid-range national facility to national Diamond synchrotron) and provides a central service perspective of benefits. I2S2 Cost/Benefit Use Case 2 (Prof Martin Dove, University of Cambridge) applies the approach to Mineral Sciences and interactions between individuals, collaborative research groups and facilities, and provides a researcher’s perspective of benefits.
Each use case forms the source material for the Benefits Case Studies contributed by the project to the Managing Research Data Programme Benefits Synthesis Report.
UKOLN Update: March 2011
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011The recently released issue of UKOLN Update, a monthly newsletter, provides an overview of UKOLN work during March 2011. It highlights key news features, blog posts, presentations, and events related to staff activities.
Most frequently used words in UKOLN blogs, March 2011
JISC 2011 Conference: The Business Administrative Case for Linked Data
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011Adrian Stevenson’s latest eFragments blog post reports on the parallel session entitled What is the Business Administrative Case for Linked Data? held at the JISC Conference in Liverpool on 15 March 2011. The session promised to address the “business value to the institution” of linked data, and was designed for “anyone who wants a clear explanation in terms of how it applies to your institutional business strategy for saving money..”.
International Journal of Digital Curation, Volume 6, Issue 1
Monday, March 14th, 2011UKOLN has just published – on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre – Volume 6, Issue 1 of the International Journal of Digital Curation. This issue features sixteen peer-reviewed papers and five general articles. A summary is available from the UKOLN Web site.
UKOLN Social Web Workshops 2010-2011
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011The last of the UKOLN Social Web workshops in the 2010-2011 series was held on 22 February 2011 at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. A look back at the events has been posted on the UKOLN Cultural Heritage blog. Access to all materials relating to these events is still available and links are included in the blog post.
Create a “Virtual Presence” at Work
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011Marieke Guy of UKOLN was delighted to receive a guest post on her blog Ramblings of a Remote Worker from Jonathon Wilson, a software engineer in Austin, Texas, who has created his own virtual presence in his workplace and has written up his approach of using Skype and VNC.