Monthly Archives: October 2008

Exclude teaching and learning materials from the open access repositories debate. Discuss.

By Lorna | October 27, 2008

Much of last week’s meeting of the JISC Repositories and Preservation Advisory Group was taken up with a discussion of the findings of the Repositories Roadmap Review which is being undertaken by Rachel Heery. The Review, which is not yet public, sparked a lively discussion during the course of which Andy Powell put forward [...]

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Semantic Technology Working Group

By Lorna | October 10, 2008

Last Friday saw the first meeting of the new CETIS Semantic Technology Working Group. CETIS Working Groups are a little different from the Special Interest Groups you all know and love in that they have a much tighter focus, a finite lifespan and a remit to produce one or more deliverables. I was [...]

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Is there something the data centres aren’t telling us??

By Lorna | October 10, 2008

MIMAS totally looks like the Death Star

Mimas being one of the moons of Saturn obviously….
http://totallylookslike.com/2008/09/05/mimas-totally-looks-like-the-death-star/

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Choose your tag with care

By Lorna | October 4, 2008

The official tag for the recent Dublin Core Conference in Berlin is dc2008berlin however my colleague John Robertson noted that more than a few conference participants had uploaded images to flickr tagged dc2008. This tag also turns up lots of holiday snaps from Washington DC along with images from some rather more exotic events [...]

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Sharks, tombstones and timewarps at Dublin Core

By Lorna | October 4, 2008

The theme for this year’s Dublin Core Conference, was œMetadata for Semantic and Social Applications. Like previous DC conferences this was a dual track event with working groups running along side peer reviewed presentations. I attended the conference primarily to participate in the working groups and I have to confess that many of [...]

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Baleful twitterings

By Lorna | October 1, 2008

I recently heard a reading of the Tang Dynesty (8th century) poet Du Fus Ballad of the Army Carts on the radio. Normally Im not a fan of radio poetry, I find it a bit trite, but this was sufficiently moving to make me stop what I was doing and listen. Its a [...]

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