Category: collaboration
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Crowd-sourcing the eCar
A Finnish internet community is seeking to apply the collective approach taken by online collaborators like the authors of Wikipedia to start converting used petrol-fuelled cars to electric ones, with the first roll-out due this year (link).
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Is academic ready for web 2.0:?
As part of its development, the Pre-Raphaelite Resource digitisation project recently commissioned an audience research study to consult users about whether the inclusion of Web 2.0 features on a resource of this type would be useful or important to the education community. The report indicated that: “there is some readiness among the education community for…
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Project Bamboo
Bamboo is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and inter-organizational effort that brings together researchers in arts and humanities, computer scientists, information scientists, librarians, and campus information technologists to tackle the question: How can we advance arts and humanities research through the development of shared technology services? (link)
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Repository Interface for Overlaid Journal Archives
This project is in part an attempt to address the issue of data re-use in research (but not the Humanities). RIOJA will create a tool to support automated interactions between journal software and public repositories. The project will also build a pilot “overlay journal”, which will demonstrate interactions between the arXiv subject repository and OJS…
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May 1 and Online Academic Labour
Dear Humanist, This project from a student at MIT (User Labor Markup Language (ULML)is pertinent given that today is May 1. And I find the question of the fair and productive use of labour online, including academic labour, one of the most interesting at the moment. For instance ‘My Experiment, a project from the Science…
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Developing the UK’s e-infrastructure for science and innovation
Produced by the Office of Science and Innovation (OSI) e-Infrastructure Working Group, the report – Developing the UK’s e-infrastructure for science and innovation – sets out the requirements for a national e-infrastructure to help ensure the UK maintains and indeed enhances its global standing in science and innovation in an increasingly competitive world (link)