Vote for the Great War Community Collections
Great War Collections (which now includes the JISC-funded Great War Archive and Europeana 1914-1918) has been entered for the EngageU Award, a European Competition for Best Innovations in University Outreach and Public Engagement.
The public can vote for this project until 19 April.
The Great War Collections started as a JISC-funded project, the Great War Archive, [...]
Developing our Creative Commons
Last week I had the great pleasure of meeting with Cathy Casserly (Chief Executive Officer) and Diane Cabell (Counsel and Corporate Secretary) of Creative Commons. Over a couple of days I had many conversations about open licensing, open education and the routes ahead.
I was a panel member for a CC Salon on OER Policies for [...]
Data-Driven Library Infrastructure: UKSG 2012 Presentation
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 data [...]
Enhancing Digital Infrastructure to Support Open Content in Education: announcing 15 new projects
I am very pleased to announce fifteen new projects to enhance the digital infrastructure to support open content in education.
The Call for proposals was released in November 2011. We received 34 proposals, the competition was very tough. I’m grateful to all the expert reviewers who helped evaluate bids. Because of the high standard of proposals [...]
Value and benefits of text mining
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Executive summary Introduction Key findings
Conclusions and recommendations Economic and regulatory related Infrastructure and support related
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Digital Humanities Congress 2012 – Call for papers
The Digital Humanities Congress is a new conference which will be held in Sheffield every two years. Its purpose is to promote the sharing of knowledge, ideas and techniques within the digital humanities.
Digital humanities is understood by Sheffield to mean the use of technology within arts, heritage and humanities research as both a method of [...]
How JISC Content projects are tackling Web usability
User engagement, both online and offline, is an important process for any project delivering successful web-based resources.
Web usability is arguably part of that process, and we were keen to expose projects within the current JISC Content programme to the principles of user centred design early on in the planning [...]
Feedback on OCRing tabular data
Last week, we asked for feedback on your experience of OCRing tabular data.
Christy Henshaw, working on the JISC funded digitisation of the Medical Officers of Health reports, has summarised the responses received so far:
I recently posted a request to digital library mailing lists, asking the community to share their experiences and knowledge about encoding [...]