I attended the launch of the new and improved JISC Digital Media (formerly known as TASI) yesterday, to hear about what they?ve been up to, and to see their very nice new (and very colourful!) website.…
We were delighted to be invited to Scotland?s first conference on the Open access research repository - what’s in it for you? on 13 February at the University of Stirling.…
I?ve bitten the bullet and joined Twitter, after being inspired by an excellent training course run by the Strategic Content Alliance and the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) about Improving your online presence.…
An interesting article by Tom Wilde published in Search Engine Land discusses how Web 3.0 is changing the way content is provided on the web and what challenges this might have for publishers.…
At Tackling the preservation challenge: Practical steps for repository managers workshop held by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), the Repositories Support Project, the Digital Curation Centre and JISC on 12 December 2008, keynote speaker Neil Beagr…
Google has published its year-end search figures, the Google Zeitgeist 2008, which looks at the most searched terms on their engine.…
At the JISC Collections AGM on 20 November 2008, Sophia Ananiadou, Director of the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) gave an excellent presentation on what text mining is, why it matters for researchers and how it helps to facilitate new and innovati…
A recent article in Businessweek by Don Tapscott, discusses his new book Grown up digital: How the Net Generation is changing your world (2008), and looks at the future of higher education and the way in which the web is changing the way people think and&nb…
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