Tag Archives: JISC

An agile approach to the development of Dublin Core Application Profiles

Posted on January 6, 2010 by paulwalk

I have been asked to provide a position paper for next week’s Future of Interoperability Standards meeting hosted by CETIS. This blog post is one I have been meaning to write for ages so I’m offering it as a position … Continue reading →

Posted in Information Management, Metadata | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Making developers happy

Posted on February 13, 2009 by paulwalk

Since I joined UKOLN two years ago, I have frequently claimed that we (JISC, the sector, our community) don’t do enough to support and listen to developers. Well, I’m just back from The Developers Happiness Days (dev8D) in London and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 4 Comments

JISC Innovation Forum 2008

Posted on July 17, 2008 by paulwalk

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 →

Posted in Conference Review | Tagged , | 2 Comments

Repository architecture #83

Posted on July 7, 2008 by paulwalk

At a JISC workshop last Thursday I was invited to present some ideas around an architecture to support and exploit repositories in the UK. I gave the presentation the title Repository Architecture #83 . My intention was to suggest some … Continue reading →

Posted in Information Management, Metadata, Web Infrastructure | Tagged , , , , | 12 Comments

Making digitised content available for searching and harvesting(2)

Posted on April 28, 2008 by paulwalk

Back in February I was asked to give a talk to the JISC Digitisation Programme meeting. I blogged about this shortly beforehand asking for comments and suggestions. The response was fantastic – I received a bunch of great suggestions and … Continue reading →

Posted in Information Management, Programmable Web, Web Infrastructure | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Making digitised content available for searching and harvesting

Posted on February 11, 2008 by paulwalk

I have been invited to give a short presentation to the JISC Digitisation Programme on Friday, giving an overview of different ways of exposing content and metadata. I’ll be talking to projects which are concerned with Cultural Heritage content which … Continue reading →

Posted in eLearning | Tagged , | 12 Comments

Finely tuned antennae

Posted on December 17, 2007 by paulwalk

The discovery to delivery hook-line has been used for a while to describe a goal of those information services which support the academic researcher. The challenge to academic libraries, national information services etc. has been to support the researcher from … Continue reading →

Posted in Information Management | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

Repositories get my vote

Posted on December 13, 2007 by paulwalk

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 →

Posted in Conference Review | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment