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JISC CNI Meeting, Edinburgh
I’ve been at the excellent JISC CNI Meeting in Edinburgh these last two days. Lots of interesting work being described and met some great new people. Some people have asked me to post my slides, so here they are: JISC … Continue reading
IDCC09
There is still time to register for this year’s International Digital Curation Conference in London, although you will need to be quick – I’m told that registration closes on the 25th November. This year’s conference (the fifth), organised in partnership … Continue reading
JISC Rapid Innovation Event
I have just spent an interesting and inspiring 24 hours at the JISC Rapid Innovation Programme meeting, which was organised by UKOLN (disclaimer: I work for UKOLN), and funded through the JISC-funded IE Demonstrator project. The venue chosen for the … Continue reading
Library hackers FTW
Yesterday I went along to Mashed Library UK 2008 in London. Quickly abbreviated to ‘mashlib’, the event was the brain-child of Owen Stephens. Owen did most of the organising, aided by David Flanders who provided the space at BirkBeck college, … Continue reading
JISC Innovation Forum 2008
I was invited to my first JISC Innovation Forum which took place over Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, and was held in Keele University. Apart from a smattering of light duties – a couple of meetings, helping to ‘referee’ … Continue reading
Digital library pipeline for a million books.
I was pleased to be invited by Brian Fuchs to a ‘Million Books Workshop’ at Imperial College, London last Friday. A fascinating day, in the company of what was, for me, an unusual group of 20-30 linguists, classical scholars and … Continue reading
Repositories get my vote
Having attended the CRIG Unconference last week, I think that it delivered much that was interesting and valuable. I look forward to the results of the synthesis of the many contributions from the delegates. Although there was just one formal … Continue reading
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Unconferencing the CRIG and browsable podcasts
David Flanders and I share an interest in the notion of the ‘unconference‘, so I’m pleased to be participating in the CRIG Unconference which David and the ‘WoCRIG’ team has organised. David introduces the idea of the unconference thus: An … Continue reading
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Stranger in a strange land (2)
A night spent in a fairly modern but spartan student university hall – all aluminium staircases and orange walls (Frederique of JISC described it as the ‘EasyJet’ of student acommodation). I kept waking up wondering why I hadn’t been woken … Continue reading
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Stranger in a strange land (1)
I’ve travelled to Nottingham, to the East Midlands Conference Centre, to attend the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2007. With my academic background being rooted predominately in the humanities, I’m looking forward to immersing myself for the next 4 days … Continue reading
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