Tag Archives: JISC

Innovations in Reference Management

Who would have thought that reference management could be so interesting? We spent a  very informative and enjoyable Thursday in snowy Milton Keynes, at the Innovations in Reference Management (#IRM10) event (part of the OU/JISC TELSTAR project). All thoroughly blogged by Owen Stephens, and tweeted by many. Owen Stephens and Jason Platts of OU described [...]

Future of Technology in Education (FOTE) 2009

For the second year running, ULCC organised a successful and interesting Future of Technology in Education (FOTE) conference, held on October 2nd at the Royal Geographic Society in Kensington. The programme had a particular focus on two hot topics, Cloud Computing and Social Media. There is a wealth of information on the FOTE website, including [...]

Open Access and Repositories in the Arts

On Tuesday I spent an interesting day at the British Academy discussing Open Access and Repositories in the Arts. The event was organised by the Repositories Support Project (RSP) and ably hosted by Bill Hubbard and Dominic Tate. I gave a short presentation on PRIMO; other projects covered included KULTUR (Andrew Gray from University of [...]

SNEEP 0.3.2 (now with automagic installer) + PICT (SNEEP evolves!)

SNEEP 0.3.2 The JISC funded SNEEP project (Social Networking Extensions for EPrints) – part of the original JISC rapid innovation programme – aimed to provide a set of social networking tools for EPrints repositories. It ran for 6 months and ended in May 2008. Since the rather low key publication of the resultant EPrints plugin [...]

rpmeet – the JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting

Some of us at ULCC, and over 100 other people from around the UK, spent a couple of days this week at the Aston Business School reviewing the outcomes of JISC’s repositories and preservation programme and looking forward to what comes next. It was a useful and stimulating couple of days – the best programme [...]