http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org Navigating the information environment... Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:07:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The first JISC-PoWR workshop took place on Friday (27th June 2008) at Senate House Library, University of London and was attended by over 30 people from a wide range of professional groupings, including the Web management and Records Management communities. The workshop was entitled 'Preservation of Web Resources: Making a ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2008/07/07/the-jisc-preservation-of-web-resources-workshop-powr/ I learnt all sort of things last week at a workshop in Cardiff.  The power consumption of various bits of an average server for instance. Power supply unit - 38w Fan - 10w CPU - 80w Memory - 36w Disks - 12w Slots - 50w Motherboard - 25w I learnt that you lose roughly 50% of the power ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2008/06/25/energy-efficient-ict/ The KCL Committee Zone project is one of the Start Up and Enhancement projects in the JISC repositories and preservation programme. The project is drawing to a close and has developed a repository to store the agendas, minutes and papers that are produced for the various committees of King's College ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2008/06/11/a-repository-of-university-committee-papers/ I was talking with a researcher the other day who said that, despite his institution mandating deposit of research papers in his institutional repository, he didn't comply - prefering to deposit in an international subject repository. Naturally, I asked him 'why?'. He said that it was because he wanted ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2008/06/09/harvesting-usage-data/ There are two new JISC briefing papers on repositories. One is concerned with the benefits of managing and sharing learning objects, the other with managing and sharing research outputs. JISC and UUK are sending these papers to senior managers in universities next week. The papers should arrive on desks on Monday ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2008/06/05/bringing-repositories-to-the-attention-of-unversity-senior-managers/ I recently attended two completely separate but thematically related events on the nature of openness within digital technology. The first of these was a lecture by Jonathan Zittrain entitled 'The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It' - organised by the Oxford Internet Institute. His central contention was ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2008/06/05/open-standards/ With the release of the beta OAI-ORE specification this week, I thought it was worth highlighting some of the JISC work in the UK that is contributing to this initiative. Two short projects are looking to experiment with ORE and feed back into its development. The FORESITE project ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2008/06/04/orejisc/ I attended a JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme meeting, but for a change I was able to sit back and learn rather than run around stressed as the entire event was designed and organised by DRaW, one of the projects in the start up and enhancement strand of the programme. This ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2008/05/21/using-repositories-for-learning-and-teaching-can-we-find-a-recipe-for-success/ Back last year, following the Digital Curation Conference in Washington DC, JISC and the Andrew J Mellon Foundation hosted an international workshop to discuss and suggest where the international priorities are for research and development work supporting academic research data curation. It's taken a while for the notes to ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2008/05/19/research-data-curation/ I attended a very interesting workshop for the ReStore project last week. The project is run by Southampton's ESRC National Centre for Research Methods and is investigating the use of a repository to host and maintain orphan web resources. The problem that the project is addressing is that very useful web ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2008/05/15/restore-workshop/