http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:23:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2010/03/16/when-is-linked-data-not-linked-data-a-summary-of-the-debate/ I'm writing this in response to MShaw's post on DevCSI asking why there were so few women at Dev8D. I'm answering over here rather than over there because this is something I've been pondering for a while. And, as my colleague John Robertson pointed out on twitter: Appropriate for ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2010/03/08/dev8d-where-were-the-women-a-response/ ...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: ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2010/02/26/one-of-the-reasons-i-love-the-oer-programme/ 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 ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2010/02/09/jisc-persistent-identifiers-meeting-teaching-and-learning-materials/ 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 ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2010/02/09/jisc-persistent-identifier-meeting-general-discussion/ 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 ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2010/02/08/ada-lovelace-day-2010/ Rather belatedly we have finally found time to synthesise the outputs of the "Semantic Technologies: Which Way Now" event CETIS hosted at the University of Strathclyde at the beginning of December. All the presentations from the event are available from the wiki page and you can read Sheila's liveblog ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2010/01/28/semantic-technologies-which-way-now-outputs-and-activities/ Many of you who have an interest in open education resources and the Academy / JISC OER Pilot Programme will already be following the development of JorumOpen. JorumOpen will enable users worldwide to search, browse and download open educational resources deposited by UK Further and Higher Education Institutions ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2009/12/09/oer-rss-and-jorumopen/ Or the strange case of Drs E. Embuggerance and H. Feisty. This has already been reported on several other blogs but it's too good not to share again. Looks like Google Scholar needs to work on its automatic metadata generation algorithm: Embuggerance, E., and H. Feisty. 2008. The linguistics ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2009/11/24/when-automatic-metadata-generation-goes-bad/ Earlier this afternoon my colleague Phil Barker led a fascinating Elluminate session exploring resource tracking issues for the JISC / HEA Open Educational Resources Programme. One approach to tracking Phil raised was the use of unique keys or tag combinations which are embedded in resources and then released into ... http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/lmc/2009/11/19/an-interesting-tracking-case-study/