Monthly Archives: February 2010

One of the reasons I love the OER Programme…

By Lorna | February 26, 2010

…is that it turns up stuff like this.
The VirtualDutch timeline of Anglo-Dutch relations. It’s built using MITs Simile software and it’s packed full of utterly fascinating detail. Amongst more familiar historical events it includes such gems as the following:
1120s: first appearance of name Fleming in Scotland,
post-1154: introduction of oxtail soup in England,
c. [...]

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JISC Persistent Identifiers Meeting: Teaching and Learning Materials

By Lorna | February 9, 2010

During the second half the JISC Persistent Identifiers Meeting participants split into five groups to discuss identifier requirements for the following resource types: research papers, research data, learning materials, cultural heritage, administrative information.
Phil Barker, Matt Jukes, Chris Awre and I composed the small group that discussed teaching and learning materials and these were our [...]

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JISC Persistent Identifiers Meeting: General Discussion

By Lorna | February 9, 2010

Last week I attended a very productive and unusually amicable meeting on identifiers run by JISC and ably facilitated by Chris Awre. Besides their obvious critical relevance, my interest in identifiers goes back to an international symposium on the topic that CETIS hosted way back in 2003. That particular event generated a voluminous [...]

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Ada Lovelace Day 2010

By Lorna | February 8, 2010

Ada Lovelace day is coming around again on the 24th March and you can plegde to participate here http://findingada.com/
The following is from the Ada Lovelace Day pledge announcement but I’m more than happy to repeat it here:

We had an amazing day last year, with over 1200 people writing about a woman in technology [...]

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