2011-12-02. British Library, London. The EU (FP7) funded Digoiduna project has come out with its recommendations on what it is calling “digital identifiers”, which (for lack of a better phrase) seems to be ‘a re-branding exercise’ for the “Persistent Identifiers” community. However (as I understand it), “Digital Identifier” as used by the Digoiduna project is … Read more
A little bit of buzz going around the (virtual) office today as the Technology Strategy Board announces the ‘Open Data Institute’. Given the Digital Infrastructure Team’s investment and work in open data (not least the recently completed linkeddata programme, #jiscEXPO), we are hoping that the opportunity to collaborate in pushing forward the Open Data agenda … Read more
This blog post is by David F. Flanders (JISC Programme Manager responsible for Identifiers) and Joss Winn (Project Manager of the ‘Linking You Toolkit’). They ask for your opinions on some potential future work that JISC would like to take forward on behalf of the sector. Lend Me Your Ears Dear University Web Managers! JISC … Read more
Note: David thought it would be fun to post this experience as it presents a potential solution to the questions we have been asking in the ‘Future of libraries‘ debate for the past year (but rarely see money put into brick and mortar – let alone Grecian facade): “how should we use the “library’s” physical … Read more
David F. Flanders presented at the Archives Forum at the National Archives yesterday. The presentation is available on slideshare at the following link: Plenary Presentation from Archives Forum at the National Archives Read more
By David F. Flanders (Programme Manager for Identifiers in the Digital Infrastructure Team). David went to the Wellcome library in London this past Thursday to hear an update from the Orcid initiative. Some quick updates follows… Orcid, yes you should all know about it (and yes it is spelled that way) – why? This is … Read more
I visited the Census Web Services Working Group this past Friday and got to hear about the ongoing plans to collect the Census data as well as how they plan on making it available via an API! We’ve got a couple of years to wait still to get our hands on it, but there were … Read more
Have you heard about SWORD but are unsure of why or how you should use it? Members of the SWORD team will be running a free hands-on workshop at OR2010 that will provide an introduction to SWORD, some examples of how it can be used, and if you have a laptop you can try out … Read more
As part of our weekly IE team call we like to end the call by going around and giving a quick reflective highlight of the week. Many of these highlight are often about the projects we get to work with so we thought it was worth sharing some of them with you**. The Enrich project … Read more
As part of our weekly IE team call we like to end the call by going around and giving a quick reflective highlight of the week. Many of these highlight are often about the projects we get to work with so we thought it was worth sharing some of them with you**. Theo Andrew from … Read more