The DevCSI (Developer Community Supporting Innovation) Project has organised a free 2-day event in Bristol over 13-14 December 2010 in conjunction with the JISC-funded Application Profiles Support Project. This hackday event will bring together software developers, project managers and users particularly (though not exclusively) in Higher Education who share an interest in eBooks and particularly the open ePUB standard for ebooks. Further information is available from the UKOLN Web site.
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DevCSI ePub/eBook Hackday
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010Impact: Proving We Make a Difference
Friday, October 22nd, 2010An article
by Val Skelton published in Information Today describes how “Users, funders and decision makers are asking tough questions about our products and services and we must be ready to respond with credible usage statistics.” The article leads with a summary of a talk entitled Monitoring and Maximising Organisational Impact given by Brian Kelly at last week’s Internet Librarian International 2010, who argued that the sector “should wholeheartedly embrace this demand for transparency by being clear and open about usage and impact.”
Event Amplification Using Social Media
Friday, October 15th, 2010Brian Kelly will give a talk Event Amplification Using Social Media at a JISC Services Marketing and Communications meeting. The meeting will be held from 10.00-15.00 on Thursday 20 October 2010 at the JISC offices, Brettenham House, London.
JISC Managing Research Data Programme: SageCite
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010The Sagecite Project will be joining other projects funded recently under the JISC Managing Research Data Programme in the Citing, linking, integrating and publishing research data (CLIP) strand for a Launch Workshop organised by JISC.
Further Funding for DevCSI
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010We are pleased to announce that DevCSI, a project to support developers in Higher Education, has received funding for a further year’s work. The project is based at UKOLN and funded by JISC. This year the project will focus on organising more events for developers in Higher Education as well as carrying out research not only into the value that developers provide their institutions but also the role they play in innovation.
Registration for the 6th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) Now Open
Friday, September 3rd, 2010Registration is now open for this year’s International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC). It will take place over 6-8 December in Chicago. The theme of the 2010 conference is Participation and Practice: Growing the Curation Community through the Data Decade. Details on registration and all other aspects are available from the Digital Curation Centre Web site.
SageCite Project Funded to Test a Framework for Citation of Network Models
Friday, August 6th, 2010SageCite, funded by JISC through the Managing Research Data Programme, will develop and test a Citation Framework of network models of disease and associated data, linking data, methods and publications. The domain of bio-informatics provides a case study, and the project builds on existing infrastructure and tools: myExperiment and the Sage Commons. Citations of complex network models of disease and associated data will be embedded in leading publications, exploring issues around the citation of data including the compound nature of datasets, description standards and identifiers. The project has international links with the Concept Web Alliance and Bio2RDF. The partners are UKOLN, the University of Manchester and the British Library (representing DataCite), with contributions from Nature Genetics and PLOS.
Winners of the DevCSI Developer Challenge
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010The DevCSI Project is pleased to announce that we have a winner for the this year’s DevCSI-organised Developer Challenge at Open Repositories 2010 in Madrid. Congratulations go to Richard Davis and Rory McNicholl from the University of London Computer Centre (ULCC). Rory is a Digital Archive Technologist and Richard is the Repository Service Manager. For information about this and other entries, please visit the DevCSI blog entry for the Challenge.