What you get when Research and Community come together
Anthologize is that great new tool designed during the One Week, One Tool project. It seems to have taken the world by storm partly thanks to the #oneweek Twitter frenzy and as the #anthologize stream indicates, its off to a stellar start. It may seem too early to look for lessons learned for the future…
Read more →Finally, JISC is turning some of the innovation and creativity it has poured into technology into the process of funding itself. The idea of JISC Elevator (see http://blog.ouseful.info/2010/07/28/project-pitching-jisc-elevator-concept/ ) is modeled on the Mozilla Drumbeat ( http://www.drumbeat.org ) - a Kickstarter-like project but with more varied sources of funding. With Kickstarter people have to back…
Read more →Recently, Harvard University’s Institute of Quantitative Social Science released OpenScholar built on Drupal using popular modules such as Organic Groups and getting help from the Spaces and Features. The Biblio module provides the great bibliographic feature. I haven't spent enough time with it yet to completely suss out how it's put together in the Drupal…
Read more →This is a great example of the interface between the machine readable and human readable. It took me a while to figure it out, but I got there eventually.
Read more →A report just came out from RIN.ac.uk that is relevant to the aims of this website (more details on the project website ). I will tweet out some of the more interesting factoids on @techczech but I think the results can be summarised roughly in three points: Very few researchers use Web 2.0 services. Case…
Read more →I started this whole thought experiment as someone who knows quite a lot about research and quite a lot about technology and the social web. But not all that much about how they go together. Sure I've trained others in researching the web, using social networking and bibliographic management with Zotero. And I've advised academics…
Read more →One of the thoughts that kept coming up in my head as I was hearing about all these great digital humanities projects at THATCamp London was: this is amazing but it's yet another silo. As someone who has tried (and mostly failed) building several very niche communities with non-tech inclined audiences, I've come to the…
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Read more →A summary of Twitter discussions during the session.
Read more →Came across this presentation that has some interesting metaphors and examples of practice:
Read more →I have been thinking about this for a while but the below happened as a proposal for THATCamp London . If somebody already had this idea, great. If somebody had a similar idea, lets think about this together. If somebody likes these ideas and wants to do something about it, you're welcome to them! What…
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