In association with the JISC Observatory, the Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN has announced a call for comments on the latest TechWatch report to be produced. Preparing for Effective Adoption and Use of eBooks in Education is now available in its preview version together with a summary of its content and significance in a blog post on the ISC Web site. Further details are available in a news feature on the UKOLN Web site.
Archive for September, 2012
TechWatch Report on eBooks in Education: Call for Comments
Friday, September 28th, 2012ISC: Interviews with Innovators
Friday, September 21st, 2012This week the Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN has published a series of interviews with innovators. Adrian Stevenson of Mimas discusses work using Linked Data, David Shotton of the University of Oxford discusses work extending semantic publishing to enrich research literature and research data, and Andrew Laughland of the University of Hertfordshire discusses the potential for academic researchers to transform data-gathering via smart phone technology.
A complete list of talks and interviews is available from the ISC Web site.
Launch of JISC TechWatch Report: Preparing for Data-driven Infrastructure
Monday, September 17th, 2012The JISC Observatory has published a report on “Preparing for Data-driven Infrastructure” which offers institutions advice on approaches to managing the increasing demands on their business and other data.
The report describes ways in which institutions can respond to strategic drivers in order to adopt a more data-centric approach across a range of development activities. The report includes a description of data-centric architectures, an overview of tools and technologies including APIs, Linked Data and NoSQL, together with a review of architectural approaches which institutions will need to consider when responding to requirements for greater transparency in their business processes.
Digital Curation for Modern Universities
Friday, September 14th, 2012Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director, Digital Curation Centre, has been invited by the Modern Universities Research Group (MURG) to give a presentation in the Data Usage for Research strand of its forthcoming workshop whose theme is “Catapult Centres, Local Enterprise Partnerships, Data Usage for Research” on 28 September 2012 at Goodenough College, London.
IDCC13: Registration Now Open
Thursday, September 13th, 2012Registration is now open for the 8th International Digital Curation Conference which will take place over 14-16 January 2013 in Amsterdam.
Details of speakers, the conference programme and venue, conference aims and pre- and post-conference workshops are available in a news feature on the UKOLN Web site.
Exploiting Research Data for Teaching at ALT-C 2012
Monday, September 10th, 2012Cathy Pink of UKOLN and Jez Cope of the University of Bath, both members of the JISC-funded Research360 Project, will be running a workshop entitled Exploiting Research Data for Teaching (Workshop 188) on 11 September 2012 at the ALT-C 2012 Conference in Manchester. This workshop will explore how research data can be exploited for learning and teaching in Further and Higher Education, addressing the following questions:
- What is research data?
- How can data be exploited for teaching and learning?
- Where can I find suitable data?
- What licence applies to the data and how do I comply?
- What contextual information is needed to make effective use of data?
Further information on this workshop is available.
DevCSI: Future Citations Hack Days
Friday, September 7th, 2012The JISC-funded Developer Community Supporting Innovation Project (DevCSI) together with the JISC Citation Data Directions Project are organising a free event for software developers, project managers, and experts in the area of Citation Data Analysis to take place over Thursday 27 and Friday 28 September 2012 in Birmingham. The Future Citations Hack Days include free accommodation and food and will help participants to form small teams to discuss issues and to work on paper and real prototypes, datasets and APIs. All participants will be able to share their own examples, expertise and opinions via the lightning sessions, discussions and informal networking opportunities.
Further information is available on the DevCSI Web site.
Managing the Material: Tackling Visual Arts as Research Data
Thursday, September 6th, 2012The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) in conjunction with the Digital Curation Centre (DCC), through the JISC-funded KAPTUR Project, is running a one-day workshop looking at visual arts as research data. The workshop will take place on 14 September 2012. Marieke Guy of UKOLN will be co-facilitating a session on Where’s the data? What’s the use? Please note that although it is already sold out, materials from this event will be made available.