UKOLN has been successful in securing funding for a 12-month Linked Data project in response to the recent JISC Grant Funding Call 2/10
to expose digital content for education and research as linked data. The LOCAH Project (full title ‘Linked Open Copac Archives Hub) will be led by UKOLN in partnership with Mimas, Eduserv, Talis and OCLC, and will be managed by Adrian Stevenson at UKOLN. The Archives Hub and Copac national services provide a wealth of rich inter-disciplinary information that the project will expose as Linked Data. The project will also be investigating the creation of links between the Hub, Copac and other data sources including DBPedia, data.gov.uk and the BBC, as well as links with OCLC for name authorities and with the Library of Congress for subject headings. This project aims to put archival and bibliographic data at the heart of the Linked Data Web, making new links between diverse content sources, enabling the free and flexible exploration of data and enabling researchers to make new connections between subjects, people, organisations and places to reveal more about our history and society.
Archive for the ‘elearning’ Category
Museums in a Digital Age
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010Brian Kelly has contributed to a book entitled Museums in a Digital Age. This work, edited by Ross Parry and published by Routledge in December 2009, provides advice on best practice related to use of digital media in the cultural heritage sector. Together with Lawrie Phipps and Caro Howell, Brian contributed on the topic Implementing a holistic approach to e-learning accessibility which appears in Part 3: Access: ability, usability and connectivity.
New JISC-funded Shared Infrastructure Services Landscape Study Completed by UKOLN
Friday, January 8th, 2010Rosemary Russell and Ann Chapman of UKOLN were the authors of a JISC-funded Shared Infrastructure Services (SIS) Landscape study on the use of Web 2.0 tools and services in UK Higher Education. This 33-page report, which is now available on the JISC Information Environment (IE) Repository Web site, is based on a survey across the UK HE community on the diverse ways in which Web 2.0 technologies are being used to support teaching and learning, research and administrative activities.
C21st Scholarship: Data as an Agent for Change
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009Liz Lyon recently gave a presentation entitled C21st Scholarship: Data as an Agent for Change at the Third Bloomsbury Conference on e-Publishing and e-Publications . Her slides are now available.