Posts Tagged ‘JISC’
ArchivePress at the British Library
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 19th June, 2009
There will be a presentation about the ArchivePress project, its background and aims, as part of the forthcoming JISC, DPC and UK Web Archiving Consortium Workshop: Missing Links: the Enduring Web, July 21st at the British Library. For full information about the event see the Digital Preservation Coalition website.
What is the Library of the Future?
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 10th April, 2009
Last Thursday’s Libraries Of The Future (LOTF) event at Oxford University has been well covered elsewhere, so I’ll just note a few key themes as I inferred them. LOTF is a JISC-sponsored campaign begun last year, and continued by means of online social networking (chez Ning) and a JISCInvolve blog, as well as F2F events [...]
CLASM: Mashing up Moodle and repositories
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 17th March, 2009
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We were pleased to learn today that the JISC has agreed to fund our proposal to the Rapid Innovations strand of the recent call, for a project called CLASM: Copyright Licensing Application with SWORD for Moodle! This will be a six-month project with a double-edged purpose: to develop a SWORD plugin for Moodle, so that [...]
Hot off the preservation press: JISC-PoWR and the Beagrie Survey
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 21st November, 2008
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We were pleased to have finally made available version 1.0 of the JISC PoWR Handbook. The Handbook is the result of our extensive work with UKOLN on the JISC Preservation of Web Resources project, which included three hugely valuable workshops, and extensive discussion on the PoWR blog. In the Handbook we’ve tried to cover a [...]
JISC Eprints Training @ ULCC
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 19th November, 2008
We are pleased to be hosting an Eprints Training Day, organised by the JISC Repositories Support Project (RSP). The event will be on Thursday 11th December 2008 here at our building in Guilford Street. Les Carr and the Southampton Eprints team will be giving practical examples of setting up and managing an Eprints repository, and [...]
ULCC/Portico/DPC consortium to undertake JISC preservation study
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 29th October, 2008
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We’ve just heard that a consortium of ULCC, Portico and the Digital Preservation Coalition has been awarded the contract by JISC to undertake a Preservation Study of recent digitisation activities. The JISC Digitisation Programme has made a wide variety of valuable resources digitally accessible, including: British Newspapers (1620-1900) Newsfilm Online First World War Poetry Newspaper [...]
PRIMO: New version taking shape
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 21st October, 2008
The PRIMO Steering Committee met last week to discuss next steps towards the launch of the final version. There will be quite a few changes from the current beta version. Many of these are the result of Professor Katharine Ellis’s extensive advocacy and consultation, among both the musical research community, who will be the system’s [...]
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