IBM-think
1 Sep 2010
Lessons of Intute
1 Sep 2010
Many years ago now, back when I worked for UKOLN, I spent part of my time working on the JISC-funded Intute service (and the Resource Discovery Network (RDN) that went before it), a manually created catalogue of high-quality Internet resources. It was therefore with some interest that I read a retrospective ... [read more]
Bath, England, 2010
31 Aug 2010
Wheels
30 Aug 2010
Burrow Mump
29 Aug 2010
Iris' naming ceremony
28 Aug 2010
Lantivet
27 Aug 2010
Dartmoor
26 Aug 2010
Man bites dog
25 Aug 2010
On the pooter
24 Aug 2010
Resource discovery revisited...
24 Aug 2010
...revisited for me that is! Last week I attended an invite-only meeting at the JISC offices in London, notionally entitled a "JISC IE Technical Review" but in reality a kind of technical advisory group for the JISC and RLUK Resource Discovery Taskforce Vision [PDF], about which the background blurb says: The JISC ... [read more]
Loopy
23 Aug 2010
Upcoming identity events
23 Aug 2010
A couple of upcoming UK identity events worth highlighting... Firstly, FAM10, which is being held in Cardiff on the 5th and 6th October: Some of the areas that delegates can look forward to hearing about this year include: Detailed overview of the progress made in the school's sector to ... [read more]
e-Book survey - summary of responses now available
16 Aug 2010
A summary of the responses to our recent survey of current and future institutional attitudes to e-books is now available. For those of you who don't want to read the whole thing (25 pages or so), the executive summary is only two sides of A4. And for those of you ... [read more]
Cloud infrastructures for academia - the FleSSR project
13 Aug 2010
Yesterday, I attended the kick-off meeting for a new JISC-funded project called FleSSR - Flexible Services for the Support of Research. From the, as yet very new, project blog: Our project will create a hybrid public-private Infrastructure as a Service cloud solution for academic research. The two pilot use cases ... [read more]
Federation Metadata Explorer - update
13 Aug 2010
Read more at eFoundations, ArtsPlace SL, Blipfoto and a7eleven.
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I live in Bath (UK) where I am Research Programme Director at Eduserv (a not-for-profit IT service provider to the public sector, health and education), partner to Sara, father to Daisy, Wilf and Stan, a regular cyclist, wannabe photographer, and crap guitar player. That's all you need to know.
I am not the Wishbone Ash guitarist or a Welsh rugby player.