The JISC Observatory team is pleased to announce the launch of a TechWatch report entitled Delivering Web to Mobile. Further details are available from a news feature on the UKOLN Web site.
Archive for the ‘Publications’ Category
New JISC Observatory TechWatch Report
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012New Ariadne Available
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012Ariadne Issue 68 has recently been made available on the World Wide Web and its readers will immediately notice it has a completely new look-and-feel. There is a news feature available on the UKOLN Web site.
UKOLN Contributions to JISC Inform
Thursday, March 29th, 2012The latest issue of the JISC Inform newsletter was published yesterday and contained two articles from UKOLN. One article provides advice on how institutions should respond to the ‘cookie’ legislation which comes into force on 26 May. A second article entitled Making the most of the open web, in which “three experts discuss how to use the social web to increase traffic to your work and make it more discoverable”, describes sound approaches to the use of blogs as an open practice.
Adoption of CERIF in UK HEIs
Thursday, March 15th, 2012Adoption of CERIF in Higher Education Institutions in the UK: A Landscape Study by Rosemary Russell of UKOLN has just been published and is available in both PDF and Word formats. This study documents the extent of adoption and engagement with CERIF in UK Higher Education institutions (HEIs) in late 2011/early 2012. CERIF, the Common European Research Information Format provides a standardised way of managing and exchanging information about research. 51 institutions in the UK are using CERIF Current Research Information Systems (CRIS), indicating a 30.7% adoption of CERIF. However despite the widespread use of CERIF as an underlying standard, many institutions are not engaging with CERIF directly.
The International Journal of Digital Curation, Volume 7, Issue 1 (2012)
Thursday, March 15th, 2012UKOLN has recently published Volume 7, Issue 1 (2012) of the International Journal of Digital Curation (IJDC) on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre. A summary of content has been provided in a news feature available on the UKOLN Web site.
Re-engineering Libraries for the Data Decade
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012The International Journal of Digital Curation, published by the Digital Curation Centre and produced at UKOLN has just published Volume 7, No 1 (2012) which includes an article by Liz Lyon, DCC Associate Director. In her article The Informatics Transform: Re-engineering Libraries for the Data Decade, Liz explains how library staff may need to supplement their existing skills in the light of the changes in the way scientific research is being conducted. With the advent of data-intensive research and a plethora of Web technologies, the landscape in which HE libraries will operate in the current decade is bound to change also. Liz asks how will library services, and also LIS schools and curricula, adapt? She considers how the position of data informaticians will alter, provides a set of assertions on which enhancements in recruitment practice may be based, and offers a view of the new role of advocacy in scholarly communication practice that libraries may wish to adopt.
Predicting the Future
Monday, March 12th, 2012An article by Brian Kelly entitled Predicting the Future: Evidence-gathering and Interpretation to Inform Planning has been published in Panlibus Magazine (Issue 23, Spring 2012) in PDF format.
In his article, Brian, a member of the Innovation Support Centre based at UKOLN, University of Bath, describes approaches to gathering and interpreting evidence in order to inform planning processes. This work is being carried out as part of the JISC Observatory service which is being provided by UKOLN and the JISC CETIS service.
Further information about the JISC Observatory is available on the JISC Observatory Web site.
Staying Ahead: Technologies to Watch in the Next Five Years
Thursday, February 9th, 2012The work of the JISC Observatory, provided by the ISC at UKOLN and JISC Cetis, has been featured in an article published in JISC Inform. The article describes how the JISC Observatory has pulled together the top issues that are on the horizon within the year, within two to three years and within four to five years. The areas include mobiles and cloud computing (which are important for institutions now); game-based learning, new scholarship, learning analytics and semantic applications (which are expected to be significant in two to three years) and augmented reality, collective intelligence, telepresence and Smart Objects (which are expected to be of importance in four to five years).
UKOLN Update December 2011
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012The recently released issue of UKOLN Update, a monthly newsletter, provides an overview of UKOLN work during December 2011. It highlights key blog posts, presentations, and events related to staff activities.
Most frequently used words in UKOLN blogs, December 2011
Final Report from UKOLN’s Evidence, Impact, Metrics Work Published
Thursday, January 5th, 2012The final report covering UKOLN’s work on Evidence, Impact, Metrics has been published. The aim of this work was to identify best practice in gathering quantitive evidence and associated metrics on the use of networked services to support institutional and project activities. The report has been produced as a series of self-contained documents which are suitable for printing (on a double-side printer) as well as being published in HTML format.