Category Archives: aggregated content

Back to the Future - revisiting the CETIS codebashes

By Lorna | December 5, 2012

As a result of a request from the Cabinet Office to contribute to a paper on the use of hackdays during the procurement process, CETIS have been revisiting the “Codebash” events that we ran between 2002 and 2007. The codebashes were a series of developer events that focused on testing the practical interoperability of implementations [...]

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CETIS OER Visualisation Project

By Lorna | December 6, 2011

As part of our work in the areas of open educational resources and data analysis CETIS are undertaking a new project to visualise the outputs of the JISC / HEA Open Educational Resource Programmes and we are very lucky to have recruited data wrangler extraordinaire Martin Hawksey to undertake this work. [...]

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The #cetis10 Locate, Collate and Aggregate extravaganza

By Lorna | November 8, 2010

Next week Phil, John and I will be running a session at the JISC CETIS conference with the snappy title Locate Collate and Aggregate. The aim of this session is to explore innovative technical approaches related to, but not confined to, the JISC / HEA OER 2 Programme which are applicable to finding, using [...]

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cetiswmd Activities

By Lorna | October 29, 2010

Phil has already blogged a summary of last week’s memorably tagged What Metadata or cetiswmd meeting. During the latter part of the meeting we split up to discuss practical tasks and projects that the community could undertake with support from CETIS and JISC to explore the kind of issues that were raised at [...]

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When is Linked Data not Linked Data? - A summary of the debate

By Lorna | March 16, 2010

One of the activities identified during last December’s Semantic Technology Working Group meeting to be taken forward by CETIS was the production of a briefing paper that disambiguated some of the terminology for those that are less familiar with this domain. The following terms in particular were highlighted:

Semantic Web
semantic technologies
Linked Data
linked data
linkable [...]

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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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Orders from the Roundtable

By Lorna | November 13, 2009

The CETIS conference always strives to address current and cutting edge issues in the domain of education technology, however the OER Technical Roundtable session was arguably more timely than most given that it coincided with a Guardian article on open courseware and open educational resources: Any student, any subject, anywhere.
The session was attended by over [...]

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