We are pleased to announce a new report that explores how activity data and analytics can benefit universities and proposes how institutions can cope with the associated challenges and opportunities. The report is called Activity data – delivering benefits from the data deluge and is available on the Jisc website now. The eagle eyed will … Read more
There was an interesting report released yesterday on the UK Government’s progress towards their open data goals. The report revealed that the Government was on track in terms of the volume of data released but it highlighted some significant challenges that need to be addressed in order to ensure the data is useful to those … Read more
JISC Elevator, JISC’s experiment with letting the crowd decide which projects should be funded, is a couple of weeks old now. There are 4 ideas on there and my favourite of those added so far, code.ac.uk: A Bounty Hunt, has the fewest votes. Is this a cause for concern or does it just mean the … Read more
Activity data is big business. We see it in the recommendations we get every time we look at something on Amazon, we see its importance every time we get asked if we have a club/nectar/loyalty card when we buy something and we see it in the fascinating story of the Netflix million dollar prize to … Read more
Over the last couple of weeks 3 very interesting reports have drifted through my news feeds on libraries and linked data: The library of congress has announced plans for pursuing a replacement for MARC and these plans “will be focused on the Web environment, Linked Data principles and mechanisms, and the Resource Description Framework (RDF) as … Read more
What better way to welcome the freshly rebranded Digital Infrastructure team blog than to announce a new funding call that spans nearly all the activities that the team is involved in. The call is available now from the JISC site and the deadline for submissions is 12 noon on Monday 21st of November. The call … Read more
My colleagues and I in the digital infrastructure team are currently knee deep in preparations for releasing a number of funding calls at the end of July. The calls will cover 4 areas: Library infrastructure – focusing on mobile devices. Ben Showers is responsible for this area. Background information on this call can be found … Read more
Recently the library, museum and archive world has taken to experimenting with open data with a vengeance. It seems an interesting new dataset is released under an open licence most weeks. There are many motivations behind these data releases but one of the major ones is the hope that someone else will think of something … Read more
JISC is currently funding a range of projects that investigate how data stored in institutional systems can be mined to gain insights into the way that university services are operating and use those insights to improve the services. These projects are spread across two programmes, the activity data programme and the business intelligence programme. There … Read more
EDINA have released a fascinating dataset derived from their OpenURL Router service. The data has been made available under an ODC-PDDL licence with BY-SA community norms which allows it to be reused by anyone with an interest in the data. The OpenURL Router Data is derived from the logs of the OpenURL Router, a service for institutions who have … Read more