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Rights and Repositories: Reshaping the Cultural Perceptions of Copyright
The afternoon sessions for the event are more discussion based - I'm sitting in one being run for John Casey (EDINA) who spoke this morning. His top 5 practical tips: Factor IPR issues at the start of an activity -...
Rights and Repositories: Licensing Content for PRIMO
This presentation by Katharine Ellis from the Institute of Musical Research. PRIMO is 'Practice as Research in Music Online' - http://primo.sas.ac.uk The PRIMO project was to look at whether there were alternatives to asking musicians to describe ...
Rights and Repositories: Overview of the legal landscape
Charles Oppenheim now presenting. He is going to concentrate on Copyright as he believes this is the main issue that academia is interested in (as opposed to trade marks, designs, patents etc.) (although I suspect that these may become more...
The George Bush and Microsoft Parallels
Back in May 2008 I published a blog post entitled George Bush IS President And Microsoft’s Office Open XML Format IS An ISO Standard which described how Microsoft’s Open Office XML (OOXML) had been approved as an ISO standard. However in th...
Rights and Repositories
Today I'm speaking at the JISC Rights and Repositories event - I'm here as part of the EThOSNet project - which is setting up a e-thesis service based at the BL (called EThOS) - see http://www.ethos.ac.uk for more details. Starting...
Hood 2.0: it’s a Web 2.0 world out there
I am running two workshops at ALT-C 2008 next week, one on mobile learning and the other on Web 2.0. Hood 2.0: it’s a Web 2.0 world out there This workshop will explore how using Web 2.0 can rethink the digital divide. Gloucestershire College has...
The mobility of learning: using mobile learning to rethink the digital divide
I am running two workshops at ALT-C 2008 next week, one on mobile learning and the other on Web 2.0. The mobility of learning: using mobile learning to rethink the digital divide Mobile technologies and mobile learning have the potential to chang...
Google Chrome and Moodle
In my last posting on Chrome I mentioned Moodle issues with Chrome which I had picked up from Kev Hickey’s note on Jaiku. I have now installed Chrome (on Vista running in VMware Fusion on my iMac) and is running smoothly and very fast as wel...
Open Standards and the JISC IE
The Ariadne article on Lost in the JISC Information Environment has generated some interesting discussions, including my colleague Paul Walk’s post in which he suggests that all models are wrong, but some are useful and Andy’ Powell&#...
Google Chrome
Google have gone and released a browser of their own, Chrome. Windows only at the moment, so I have not yet installed it. Looks interesting. Alas I have heard that Moodle does not work with Chrome, so that’s one thing I will be checking out.
Stop complaining and start doing…
It’s no surprise to me that there is an immediate response to the Google announcement of their web browser. The responses seem to fall into three categories: “wow - this is cool” “hmmmm… more of Google take but not g...
BBC Motion Gallery Clip Creativity Challenge winners shows real flair
BBC Motion Gallery together with JISC Collections and London Metropolitan University has announced the winner of the BBC Motion Gallery Clip Creativity Challenge 2008 BBC Motion Gallery together with JISC Collections and London Metropolitan ...
Slamming at ALT-C 2008 - from anywhere!
Have you got something to say about the Digital Divide? Now is your chance. We would like to invite participation in a Digital Divide Slam in association with a workshop at ALT-C 2008. If you aren’t attending the conference, you are welc...
ALT-C, Crowdvine and (social) tagging
The Crowdvine social network for next week's ALT-C Conference is now available and delegates are signing up apace. One of the interesting things about Crowdvine is it's use of social tagging (solicited through a conference-specific set of profile ...
Intute at ALT-Conference 2008
Intute staff will be offering demos and updates at the ALT Conference in Leeds next week (9-11 September 2008) - please come and visit us at the JISC Stand in the main exhibition area. Find out how to use Intute to guide your students to the best ...
Playing catchup
Due to general busy-ness and also a week off last week I'm well behind with the Learning 2.0 Programme.A couple of weeks ago, Social Bookmarking and Tagging were covered. I have to admit that bookmarking is something that I've always...
Over Ten Years Of Accessibility Work
David Sloan and myself have had a paper on “Redefining Accessibility for a Web 2.0 World” accepted for the ADDW08 (Accessible Design in the Digital World) conference which will be held at the University of York on 23-24th September 200...
Geek 2.0
Brian Kelly has a post on the mainstreaming of the "2.0" label, Citizen 2.0, Strike 2.0, David Cameron 2.0 and Coldplay 2.0. A while back I made the mistake of explaining to my youngest son, Stan, that Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 were "the next genera...
Google’s Browser Strip
Google have produced a comic book to announce their new open source web browser called Chrome. Drawn by renowned artist and narrative theorist Scott McCloud the thirty-eight page comic goes into a surprising amount of detail about the browser̵...
Silly season - camping in the 21st Century
I don’t usually post stuff like this but here goes. My adult sons returned from a camping trip today, and I was directed to their photos. This one really made laugh. Relaxing after a trip to the pub, watching film on ipod (propped up again...
Inventory of digital resources catalogues 3,707 free collections
The JISC Digital Repositories and Archives Inventory project has finished phase 2 and has catalogued a total of 3,707 online collections that staff and students in higher education can access for free. These catalogue records will be added to the ...
Guest Post: You’ve Got A Friend
It has been a while since I have a guest post published on the UK Web Focus blog. But as I am very keen on encouraging a debate on the role of Web 2.0 within our institutions I would like to welcome Hannah Hiles as a guest blogger. Hannah Hiles ha...
Date set and planning ahead
The event is set for 1st October, at Staffordshire University and will be held over a morning, with lunch at the end. I have now posted information about the event in the WBL Google Calendar that we created for the project, the Support Point itsel...
Blog Day 2008
A tweet from joeyanne alerted me that today is Blog Day 2008. As I only found out about this at 6.30 pm today I will have to be brief in my list of blogs that I find interesting. The instructions for contributing to Blog Day are: Find 5 new Blog...
Monitoring mobile content
Bill Thompson has written an excellent column on the BBC news website. Suggestions that content-hosting sites like YouTube and Flickr should review material before they were posted were especially ridiculed. Observer columnist John Naughton pointe...
Rural-urban Learning through Authenticity Symbiosis in Agritourism
Georgeous Parx (George Pop - RL), a Tourism Marketing Masters student from University of Surrey, will be presenting "Rural-urban Learning through Authenticity Symbiosis in Agritourism", on Tuesday 2nd September, 2008, 12.00pm SLT (20.00pm UK) at t...
CrowdVine vs. Ning
In response to Luke Gedeon’s point-by-point comparison of CrowdVine and Ning I put my own explanation of when and why CrowdVine comes up on top CrowdVine blog. I think it’s a good explanation of the state of the social network software...
The Final JISC PoWR Workshop
The final workshop organised by the JISC-funded Preservation of Web Resources (PoWR) will take place at the University of Manchester on Friday 12th September 2008. Now you may think that preservation is a pretty dull topic, compared with the excit...
Lost in the JISC Information Environment?
Tony Ross, writing in the current issue of Ariadne, Lost in the JISC Information Environment, gives a nice summary of some of the issues around the JISC Information Environment technical architecture. He hits a lot of nails on the head, desp...
Defining An “Amplified Conference”
The term ‘amplified conference’ was, I believe coined in a blog post by Lorcan Dempsey in which he observed that ” It is interesting to watch how more conferences are amplifying their effect through a variety of network tools and...
Leadership
I went on a Leadership course a few weeks ago. I’ve finally got around to presenting my notes in a semi-readable format - the timing is just right as this stuff feeds into what I’m trying to do with the professional learning community ...
Sloodle Island coming soon
Dan Livingstone of the Sloodle project (which we happen to fund :-) ) has made the following announcement to the virtualworlds@jiscmail.ac.uk mailing list:Hi all,For information, the Sloodle project (http://www.sloodle.org/) should have its new is...
MyBristol Toolbar
I was alerted to the MyBristol portal via a tweet from Mike Ellis who commented on the URIs it uses: woa - check out the beautiful friendly url’s on UPortal… http://tinyurl.com/5uwr8k Now I’d agree that https://portal.bris.ac.uk...
Web futures - who ordered the pragmatic semantic organism with fries?
In the first of his Ten Futures (which is an interesting read by the way) Stephen Downes suggests that the Semantic Web will never happen and that we need the Pragmatic Web instead:Forget about the Semantic Web. Whether or not it ever gets built, ...
ARG (as opposed to Arghhh)
I'm not a big gamer and never have been (brief flirtations with Space Invaders and Pac-Man way back when, Tony Hawks Pro Skater on the PS2, Guitar Hero III on the Xbox 360 and a couple of other things aside). But I do quite like the idea of ...
Two-thirds of UK homes now online
More background news about the penetration of Internet access into UK homes, this time from the Office for National Statistics, via the BBC. The two-thirds proportion is pretty much as expected but I was surprised by the figure quoted toward...
Squirl: When Web 2.0 Services Break
I have previously described that when you make use of third party Web 2.0 services you need to acknowledge the possible risks: yes, if you use Google Docs there are risks if Google goes out of business or the Google service is down. I have been wi...
Sony announce new PSP
Sony have announced a new version of their PSP portable gaming console. Key difference will be that it will have a microphone allowing you to use it with Skype to make (internet) phone calls. It also has a better screen. BBC News on new PSP (and n...
Embedded Flickr Slideshow
From Twitter, via AJ Cann’s Blog it is now possible to embed a Flickr slideshow into a webpage or a blog entry. Alas you can not use it on a WordPress.com blog (like this is) as WordPress.com strip out something from the HTML code. Ah well. ...
What Is JISC?
I recently noticed a referrer link to this blog coming from the Answers.com Web site. I’ve not visited this site before so I thought I’d visit and use the service to find an answer to a question. The question I thought I’d ask wa...
Massiel: open research in open source software communities
Massiel is, at this point, a small study hosted by Google Code of whether some open source projects depend on a fixed subset of people, or whether they are sustainable and new generations of community members can take over. And we are doing it a l...
The ILI Tenth Anniversary
The Internet Librarian International Conference Is Ten This year sees the 10th anniversary of the Internet Librarian International (ILI) conference. This year’s event, ILI 2008, will be held at Novotel London West, London, UK on 16-17th Octo...
Directory of repository-related blogs
The JISC-funded Repositories Support Project has developed quite a nice list of repository-related blogs (and other RSS feeds). Worth taking a look and suggesting additional feeds if they are missing. They provide an OPML file which means that eve...
The right time for outsourcing
Paul Walk has an interesting post, “Did Google just make me look like an idiot?”, questioning whether the time is right for universities to start outsourcing services in a Web 2.0, SaaS kind of way. As Paul notes, this was very much the focus for ...
Hype curves
I saw a post on Techcrunch about a hype curve for emerging technologies. I won’t reproduce the curve here as I am not sure about the legality of posting it. However, if you go over to techcrunch you can see the curve. I was very surprised to...
JSTOR launches Ireland Collection
Participation fees waived for universities, colleges and research councils in the UK and Irelend JSTOR has launched the Ireland Collection, a new multidisciplinary collection devoted entirely to material from and about Ireland. The Ireland Colle...
Three panel sessions at the Chilbo summer fair
In a way, I wish I was part of Chilbo - part of me is dead envious cos it looks like a fun community.As part of their summer fair there are three interesting looking panel sessions coming up - the first tonight. I'm guessing that they will all be ...
Monologue or Dialogue
As part of the Learning 2.0 programme at Imperial College, all those taking part have been asked to setup a blog, and use this to reflect on each week’s activities. I’ve setup RSS feeds for all the blogs setup as...
Four Apps
Yesterday was definitely new app day as far as I was concerned. Four new apps, each of which could easily be applied into a learning and teaching context. TextTheMob - “The easiest and most entertaining way to collect feedback from your aud...