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Futures

The UKOLN ISC is charged with advising the JISC and the wider Further and Higher Education communities about trends in the development and adoption of relevant technologies. Our primary framework for this kind of activity is the JISC Observatory.

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Posted by admin on Feb 13, 2012

Resource Discovery

The UKOLN ISC is engaged in research, development and advocacy in the area of digital resource-discovery. We support the JISC-funded Discovery Programme, work with standards organisations such as the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, and develop prototype resource-discovery tools and services.

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Posted by admin on Oct 14, 2011

Developer Engagement

The DevCSI project works to engage with developers working in the Higher Education sector. Developers play a vital, and sometimes under-appreciated role in ensuring that our institutions can innovate and continue to deliver a world-class teaching, learning and research experience.

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Posted by Rosemary Russell on Oct 14, 2011

RIM

The UKOLN ISC supports the JISC's Research Information Management (RIM) Programme closely, through a number of activities, including reviewing and synthesising programme outputs and providing direct support to the UK HEI staff working in this area.

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Technical Innovation

Technical staff at the UKOLN ISC have acquired a broad range of technical skills and expertise and work on a range of development projects, including prototyping web services, evaluating the usability of services and devices and data and text-mining.

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Posted by admin on Nov 1, 2011

Institutional Web

UKOLN's ISC support for the institutional Web management community aims to encourage the development and growth of a sustainable community of practice in order to maximise the benefits which can be provided by institutional web services.

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Posted by admin on Nov 14, 2011

Ariadne

Ariadne has been published by UKOLN since 1996 and continues to play an important role in highlighting a broad range of digital library and related developments within the UK and across the wider community. It is published for information professionals in all sectors, with an international reach.

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euroCRIS membership meeting in Madrid

Posted by Rosemary Russell on Nov 8, 2012 in ISC News, Trip Reports | 0 comments

Just returned from the euroCRIS membership meeting in Madrid, the largest to date, with around 80 participants. euroCRIS  is showing a steady growth in membership, at around 15% per year. It was particularly...

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OpenAIREplus and CERIF

Posted by Rosemary Russell on Oct 31, 2012 in ISC News | 0 comments

The second OpenAIRE conference will be held at Göttingen State and University Library, 21-22 November 2012. As well as presenting results from the OpenAIRE project the programme will also ‘give insight into...

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CERIF in Action workshop

Posted by Rosemary Russell on Oct 24, 2012 in ISC News | 0 comments

UK higher education interest in CERIF continues unabated as demonstrated by the...

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Using Social Media to Enhance the Visibility of Open Content

Posted by Brian Kelly on Oct 22, 2012 in Events, UKOLN News | 0 comments

Brian Kelly will be giving a series of presentations across the UK...

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TechWatch Report on eBooks in Education: Call for Comments

Posted by lisrw on Sep 28, 2012 in ISC News, ISC Outputs, UKOLN News | 0 comments

JISC Observatory has released a preview version of a forthcoming TechWatch report: Preparing for Effective Adoption and Use of eBooks in Education. Comments are welcome on this report to help shape its coverage and guidance to Higher and Further Education sectors. The feedback period is open from 27 September to 8 October 2012.

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Launch of JISC Observatory Report: Preparing for Data-driven Infrastructure

Posted by Brian Kelly on Sep 17, 2012 in ISC News, UKOLN News | 0 comments

The JISC Observatory has published the latest TechWatch report entitled 'Preparing for Data-driven Infrastructure', which describes ways in which institutions can adopt a more data-centric approach across a range of development activities. The report includes an overview of tools and technologies (including APIs, Linked Data and NoSQL) together with a review of technical architectural designs which institutions will need to consider in responding to requirements for greater transparency in their education, research, and business processes.

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