Research Data Alliance (RDA) – second plenary meeting – Washington DC – 16th – 18th September. Many readers of this blog will know about the Research Data Alliance already, but there will, I guess also be a lot of people that don’t. I am using this post as an introduction to the RDA – having … Read more
In the UK, the repository network is well established, and supports access to research papers and other digital assets created within universities. Increasingly, repositories are part of a research information management solution helping to track and report on research. Over the past few years, Jisc has worked with a number of partners, including the University … Read more
Tuesday 13th November saw the final programme meeting for the UK OER Programme 2009-2012. An aim of the programme had been to find sustainable practices for the release of OER, and there were many success stories shared. It seems to me that the funded programme marks the start of a general move towards greater OER … Read more
Below is a copy of the plenary presentation I gave to the UKSG conference 2012. I have also included a much reduced transcript of the talk to provide some context to the slides. My presentation was about looking at library services and systems from a data-centric point of view. Specifically, it was about the potential that library … Read more
Overview of new JISC/HEA funded OER Rapid Innovation Projects. Read more
Background to this blog post The OER Rapid Innovation Call for Proposals was announced in November 2011. It is open to HEFCE-funded institutions to bid. I am very aware that the issues in scope for this Call are broader then the UK. It includes a snapshot of the digital infrastructure space at November 2011, it … Read more
***THIS CALL FOR PROPOSALS CLOSED ON 27TH JANUARY 2012 and this blog post will no longer be updated*** The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Higher Education Academy (HEA) invites institutions to submit funding proposals for projects to enhance digital infrastructure to support open content for education. Read the Call for Proposals. Supplementary Information … Read more
Released later this month, with a deadline of mid January, this Call will be for short (max 6 month) projects to develop solutions to enhance the digital infrastructure to support the use of open content in education. Eligible institutions (HEFCE capital) can bid for between £10,000 and £25,000. Technical staff should already be in place. … Read more
Yesterday saw the shared academic knowledge base (KB+) briefing day for approx. 60 library directors and senior managers take place in London, at the Wellcome Trust. The project, known as KB+, is developing a shared community service that will improve the quality, accuracy, coverage and availability of data for the management, selection, licensing, negotiation, review … Read more
The information environment programme 2009-11 (mercifully shortened to inf11) is drawing to a close and we are starting to reflect on what it has achieved. We chose to manage this programme as one very broad programme rather than a number of smaller programmes and it has included work on: Preservation Activity data Automatic metadata generation … Read more