Archive for the ‘Projects’ Category

Patients Participate! Workshop: Bridging the Gap between Information Access and Understanding in Health Research

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

Information on an upcoming Patients Participate! Project workshop on bridging the gap between information access and understanding in health research, to take place on 17 June 2011 at the British Library, is available in the latest UKOLN News feature.

OR 2011: Linked Data – The Future for Open Repositories?

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

Adrian Stevenson of UKOLN will be speaking about the LOCAH Project at the Open Repositories 2011 Conference, which takes place in Austin, Texas, USA over 6 – 11 June 2011. Adrian will give his 24×7 presentation, entitled Linked Data – The Future for Open Repositories?.

The LOCAH Linked Data Project

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

The JISC-funded LOCAH (Linked Open Copac and Archives Hub) Project recently announced the release of its first Linked Data set. The Project is also involved in a round of presentations and conference participation. Full details and further information are now available in a News feature on the UKOLN Web site.

Last Spaces on DevCSI Free Cloud Services Workshop

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

The DevCSI Project will run a free Cloud services workshop on Friday 27 May 2011 at the University of Southampton. Only a very few places now remain; bookings will cease at 12 noon tomorrow, Thursday 26 May. So please book now to avoid disappointment.

The workshop will give delegates an overview of Cloud technologies and showcase examples of how the technology is used in Further and Higher Education. It is designed for developers, Web developers and systems administrators and will cover the basics of commercial Linux cloud usage.

Further information and a booking form are available from the UKOLN Events page.

LOCAH and LOD-LAM: Linked Open Data Summit

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

The International Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives, and Museums Summit (“LOD-LAM”) will take place over 2-3 June  2011 in San Francisco, USA. It will ‘convene leaders in their respective areas of expertise from the humanities and sciences to catalyze practical, actionable approaches to publishing Linked Open Data.’

Adrian Stevenson of UKOLN is an invited expert and member of the organising committee for the Summit. He will also be presenting on the JISC-funded LOCAH (Linked Open Copac and Archives Hub) Project at the Summit.

SageCite at Data Citation Principles Workshop

Monday, May 16th, 2011

Monica Duke will be giving a short presentation entitled SageCite: Citation principles in practice when modelling disease networks at the Data Citation Principles Workshop taking place at IQSS, Harvard University, 16-17 May, 2011.  The talk will review some of the lessons that SageCite has learnt about the domain of disease modelling and will explore some challenges in applying the principles of data citation.

CERIFy Data Surgery Will Report

Friday, May 13th, 2011

This two-day invitation-only event will be held in Bath over 19-20 May as part of the  CERIFy Project and will facilitate discussion of data, CERIF mappings and general networking for all project partners. Although this event is only open to the CERIFy Project partners, the discussions and workshop outputs from this data surgery will be made publicly available after the event. Please check the CERIFy Project Web site for further information. These outputs will be announced through this channel as well as the project Web site.

The CERIFy Project is funded by JISC from February to July 2011 to investigate how the CERIF Standard (Common European Research Information Format) for Current Research Information Systems (CRISs) could be used more widely within the sector in order to manage research data, to increase such engagement to a critical mass, and to support an emerging community of practice in Research Information Management (RIM).

CERIFy is working with four pilot UK HE institutions and one international commercial organisation (Thomson Reuters), which do not as yet have working CRIS systems based on the CERIF data format. The project will evaluate, test and demonstrate CERIF in a practical, ‘end-to-end’ process of people-centred organisational modelling, requirements elicitation, data analysis, data mapping, data exchange, and software demonstration, together with a programme of training, support, evaluation and dissemination.

JISC and DevCSI Know the Value of Local Developers

Monday, May 9th, 2011

In a recent post on the JISC blog, Paul Walk, Deputy Director, UKOLN, writes about the value that local developers in Further and Higher Education represent, describing how the JISC-funded DevCSI Project is working to expose and maximise this for the sector, and introduces the concept of the Strategic Developer.

DevCSI Free Cloud Services Workshop

Friday, May 6th, 2011

The DevCSI Project will run a free Cloud services workshop on Friday 27 May 2011 at the University of Southampton. It will give delegates an overview of Cloud technologies and showcase examples of how the technology is used in Further and Higher Education. It is designed for developers, Web developers and systems administrators and will cover the basics of commercial Linux cloud usage.

Further information and a booking form are available from the UKOLN Events page.

Lifting the Lid on Linked Data at ELAG 2011

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011

Adrian Stevenson of UKOLN along with Jane Stevenson from Mimas will be speaking about the LOCAH Project at the European Library Automation Group Conference, which takes place in Prague, Czech Republic over 25-27 May 2011. They will give their presentation, entitled Lifting the Lid on Linked Data, on the opening day.