http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org Navigating the information environment... Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:31:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This has been available for a little while but it is a really useful resource for libraries so I thought I'd be able give it another push via this blog. Curtis and Cartwright and Naomi Korn Copyright Consultancy undertook a study for JISC to explore legal implications for UK university libraries ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2010/03/19/help-with-the-legal-issues-in-reusing-bibliographic-records/ Recently we've been recommending that more projects use a "unique tag" as their project identifier.  This is primarily because we are seeing more projects effectively use blogs, twitter, flickr, code.google and several other distributed Web tools as their primary project tools (the JISCRI projects posted 500+ posts in six months)**. ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2010/03/18/creating-a-unique-tag-your-project-for-blogs-microblogs-and-other-distributed-web-content/ Yesterday we held a small seminar to look at project evaluation for some people involved in JISC projects in the information environment programme. The seminar was designed to be very practical and to recognise that there is no one size fits all evaluation methodology for projects. For me, the strongest messages to ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2010/03/16/tips-for-evaluating-jisc-projects/ I've now had a couple of weeks to reflect on the busy and interesting JISC developer days event (also known as dev8D) that was held in London on the 24th - 27th of February. The purpose of the event is to get software developers from across higher education and related ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2010/03/11/reflecting-on-the-jisc-developer-days-event/ Yesterday I attended one of the current JISC eResearch Roadshows at the OU in lovely Milton Keynes with the great hashtag #oujisco. It was an interesting day with talks from David Ferguson from NeSC and Graham Pryor from DCC both speaking but my real reason for attending was to ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2010/03/11/oujisco-digital-scholarship-at-the-ou/ Yesterday the JISC Grant Funding Call 2/10 (Title: "Deposit of research outputs and Exposing digital content for education and research") was released on the JISC website.  The two Strands in this Call are asking for separate sets of project bids and I'd like to clarify each in its own right: Strand A: Deposit ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2010/03/10/call-released-podcast-on-jiscdepo-jiscexpo-call/ It is rare that the venue is discussed more on Twitter than the content of the event but at the Repositories and the Cloud (#repcloud) event on the 23rd of February it was a close run thing. The event took place at the rather amazing Magic Circle Headquarters in ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2010/03/04/the-magic-word-is-repcloud/ PLEASE WATCH THIS SPACE (subscribe to the feed for this blog) FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE "EXPOSING DIGITAL CONTENT FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH" (aka Linkeddata) CALL. London, University of London Student Union.  Today at the #Linkeddata #London meetup JISC announced that a Call will be issued in March requesting bids for ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2010/02/24/call-announcement-exposing-digital-research-for-teaching-learning-2/ JISC and Eduserv are jointly hosting a meeting to discuss repositories and the cloud on Tuesday 23rd of February. Full details are on the event website and Andy Powell has written a great blog post introducing the event and asking for people's views. To accompany Andy's post I thought I'd share ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2010/02/15/repositories-and-the-cloud-useful-links/ Thanks to everyone who has put in a proposal under Call 12/09 on enhancing library management systems for all their time and effort. Proposals are now with markers. As you know from the Call, we hope to get back to proposers with outcomes during week beginning March 22 (the intervening ... http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2010/02/10/library-systems-call-thanks-for-proposals/