JISC has just announced funding for the Patients Participate! Project in its Developing Community Content strand. Patients Participate! is led by UKOLN in collaboration with the British Library and the Association of Medical Research Charities. The project will investigate the potential of crowdsourced ‘lay summaries’, derived from medical articles in the PubMed Central repository, as a means of enabling patients to understand better the nature of academic research into medical issues.
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Patients Participate! Project Funded by JISC
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011Shared Services in Cloud Computing to Be Funded by HEFCE
Monday, February 7th, 2011The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has announced a £12.5m programme to deliver efficiencies through shared services in cloud computing infrastructure and applications. This new programme, which will be managed by JISC, supports colleges and universities in the innovative use of digital technologies.
A core virtual server infrastructure (a ‘cloud’) will be set up to offer discounted data management and storage services to HE institutions. It will be deployed in data centres starting with a pilot at Eduserv, which will work in collaboration with the Digital Curation Centre.
As a partner in the Digital Curation Centre, UKOLN at the University of Bath is pleased to be contributing to this major new initiative to support research data management, working in partnership with the JISC, JANET and Eduserv. Further information is available from the HEFCE Web site.
Free Event on Linked Data January 2011
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010The JISC-funded ResearchRevealed
and DevCSI projects have jointly organised a free two-day workshop for software developers, research information managers, researchers, librarians and linked data experts who are interested in the development of linked data, systems and services. The event will take place over 13 – 14 January, 2011 in Bristol and includes free accommodation.
Making Sense of “Disruptive Innovation”
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010UKOLN and CETIS with the support of JISC have launched an online brainstorm on the question “Which ICT-based innovations are potentially disruptive to current models of higher education?” Disruptive innovation is frequently seen as a threat to existing well-run businesses but it can also be seen as an opportunity for those capable of harnessing the innovation. You are invited to participate – and feel free to share the URL: http://tinyurl.com/disruptive2010.