The Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN (together with the JISC RIM and RCSI Programmes) organised a workshop in Bristol on 27-28 June 2012 on Research Information Management (RIM) and CERIF. The Innovation Support Centre has just published a blog posting on this event. Further details are available from the ISC blog.
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JISC RIM CERIF Workshop Report
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012Report on Data-driven Infrastructure
Thursday, June 28th, 2012The JISC Observatory service, provided by the Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN and JISC CETIS, has announced the publication of a preview version of the TechWatch report entitled Preparing for Data-driven Infrastructure. Details of the report and how to send feedback on it are available on the ISC Web site.
Resources from IWMW 2012
Thursday, June 28th, 2012The Innovation Support Centre has announced the availability of slides, recordings and video from UKOLN’s annual Institutional Web Management Workshop, IWMW 2012. Details are available from an ISC blog post.
The Changing Role of the Developer in HE
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012Paul Walk, Director of the JISC Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN, was invited to give an invited plenary talk at the joint Sakai/Jasig Conference in Atlanta, in which he introduced the notion of the connected developer. Further details are available from the Innovation Support Centre blog.
UKOLN Working Featured in Times Higher Education
Thursday, May 31st, 2012Work by UKOLN’s Innovation Support Centre in identifying patterns of institutional use of Facebook by Russell Group universities has been featured in the THE Scholarly Web column of the Times Higher Education (THE).
The article highlights the growth in Facebook ‘likes’ of official institutional Facebook pages for the universities, but warns of the dangers of reading too much into this metric if used in isolation. The original information was published in a blog post which asked “What Next, As Facebook Use in UK Universities Continues to Grow?“.
BiblioHack in the Summertime
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012DevCSI, managed by UKOLN, has made an announcement on the Innovation Support Centre blog about the forthcoming BiblioHack event which aims to bring together software developers, project managers, librarians and experts in the area of Open Bibliographic Data.
Report: Managing Research Data Hack Day
Friday, May 11th, 2012The Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN has announced publication of an event report on the recent DevCSI Managing Research Data Hack Day held in Manchester.