By JohnR | August 19, 2009
The Repositories Research Team finished up recently and from the begining of August I’ve been working on a new project providing some of CETIS’ support to the JISC and HE Academy’s Open Educational Resources programme (http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/oer.aspx).
Lorna has already provided a great concluding review of the RRT project over on her blog, so I won’t attempt [...]
Also posted in Metadata, oer, tools, ukoer |
Held at Georgie Tech, Open Repositories 2009 hosted 326 delegates form 23 countries. The conference ran smoothly and managed to provide robust wifi for anyone who wanted it. The conference dinner was held at the Georgia Aquarium; the aquarium was inspiring (though the theme music was a bit much after a while) and the dinner [...]
RRT are attending Open Repositories 2009 in Atlanta.
Our poster highlights nine recent ready-to-use outputs from JISC’s repositories and preservation work that the conference might not otherwise have heard about.
By JohnR | January 20, 2009
[copy of my post from the RRT Team blog]
Introductory Report released
We’re pleased to announce the release of the final version of RRT’s introductory report:
An ecological approach to repository and service interactions .
In the report we examine the idea that ecology can usefully serve as a metaphor (or source of metaphors) to help articulate the complex [...]
By JohnR | December 3, 2008
[this is a copy of my post on the Repository Research Team blog http://jiscrrt.wordpress.com/]
In issue 57 of Ariadne, Phil, Mahendra, and myself have an article introducing some of our work on ecological models of repository and service interaction. “A Bug’s Life?: How Metaphors from Ecology Can Articulate the Messy Details of Repository Interactions”
In our introduction [...]
By JohnR | September 25, 2008
Metadata in an Ecosystem of Presentation Dissemination - R. John Robertson, Phil Barker, Mahendra Mahey
How and how why do academics disseminate their presentations? How does this relate to their other forms of dissemination? What academic and organisational influences affect their dissemination? What influences their choice of tool? What metadata is created about the various things [...]
By JohnR | August 7, 2008
What are the key changes going on in the world of digital libraries, repositories, and academic life? Over the summer I’ve been thinking a little on some of this - in part been prompted by my aforementioned change in job and in part because I’ve been on holiday and it’s afforded a few moments of [...]
By JohnR | August 1, 2008
Some of you may be aware that I’ve been working halftime for CETIS and halftime for the CDLR (Centre for Digital Library Research). From today I’m now working full time for CETIS.
I started working for CDLR during my studies at Strathclyde, and over the past four years have had the chance to work on a [...]
Also posted in Blogging |
By JohnR | December 3, 2007
At the end of this week JISC’s Common Repositories Interfaces Group (CRIG) are holding a two day meeting to look at the key scenarios affecting repository interfaces.
Our discussions for the two days are going to build on a series of teleconferences organised by the CRIG support project - WoCRIG which have just been podcast. I’m [...]
By JohnR | November 15, 2007
This a more focused brief discussion to follow up my last post about different approaches to modeling. It attempts to understand some of the similarities and differences between a domain modeling approach and an ecological approach.
Thoughts so far:
Like a domain model an ecological view is concerned with more than the technical issues and interfaces
A domain [...]
