JISC has been engaging in scoping the potential for activity/usage data for the HE sector under the Activity Data Programme with 9 projects. There is much potential that activity data brings in terms of business intelligence for various uses such as recommendation services, collections management etc. A very engaging synthesis of the work has been … Read more
DevCSI Challenge @ Open Repositories 2011 http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/blog/dev-challenge-or11/ As usual the standard of the entrants were very high and the solutions were diverse. There was also high energy and an infectious buzz in the room during the presentations! See videos at http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/blog/2011/07/29/or11-developer-challenge-videos/ JISC Prize: First: “Repository as a Service (RaaS). Stuart Lewis, Kim Shepherd, Adam Field, … Read more
The JISC UX2 Project at Edinburgh have made the Balsamiq prototyping tool available for use. So if you want to try a really easy wireframing tool for user interface design – click here There is also a workshop on Tuesday 17th May at Edninburgh University. Registration is now open for the Usability and User-Centred Design Day … Read more
On 14th July 2010 David Kay from Sero Consulting facilitated the above workshop, which built on the findings of the JISC MOSAIC project. The event report and presentations from the workshop are now available. The following are few reflections from the workshop: There are a small number of projects (e.g. MOSAIC, PIRUS2 and Journals Usage Statistics … Read more
Business intelligence resulting from ‘user activity data’ could help universities to manage resources more efficiently, budget more effectively, make smarter purchasing decisions, improve their services and demonstrate impact. The likes of Amazon and Tesco use activity data to make business decisions and to also provide recommender services on top of this data. They know a … Read more
The JISC MOSAIC project Developer Competition attracted entries from England, Scotland, Wales and the United States. The winner of the £1000 award was Alex Parker, an undergraduate studying Computer Science at the University of Southampton, who developed a compelling presentation of the library user activity data represented as the ‘Book Galaxy’. The runners up were … Read more
MOSAIC Project Event – Wednesday 18 November 2009 (10.00 to 16.00) at the University of Wolverhampton Venue This event is kindly hosted by the University of Wolverhampton in the MX Building on the City Campus WV1 1AD. There is mainline rail access (Wolverhampton) and nearby car parking (Wolves football ground). Attendance & Registration This event … Read more
The JISC MOSAIC project is holding a competition to discover what can be done with library usage data. It closes at 23.59 this coming Monday. They’re looking for compelling applications, interfaces and mash-ups that use the data in research, learning and libraries etc. • First prize – £1000 sterling • Second Prize – £250 sterling … Read more
The Beyond the Repositories Fringe event at Edinburgh University was very enjoyable and it was good to see presentations from JISC repositories projects. Ben O’Steen and Sally Rumsey (Oxford University Research Archive) key note presentation on “where are repositories going” was particularly interesting that it talked about the change over time in our thinking about … Read more