Tag: web2.0
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CeRch awarded 1.3 Million Pounds in JISC funding
(A VRE is a Virtual Research Environment…like a blackboard, well not really) The following press release is from the Centre that I work within at King’s College; London. A lot of these projects won’t be of that much interest to researchers (as they are infrastructure grants, not research), however the TEXTvre project may be of…
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King’s College London, Centre for e-Research
Enhancing and Supporting e-Research King’s College London is pleased to announce the establishment of the KCL Centre for e-Research. Based in Information Systems and Services, the Centre will lead on building an e-research environment and data management infrastructure at King’s, seeking to harness the potential of IT to enhance research and teaching practice across the…
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Google rolls out its Facebook killer
Google will offer internet developers an open system to create applications across websites, a move that could challenge the features behind the explosive popularity of social network Facebook. Google’s OpenSocial system gives developers standardised tools to build applications and embed them in many sites, eliminating the need for small startups or even one-person shops to…
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‘I get the feeling this isn’t about me!’
A good review from the Times Higher Education Supplement by William Dutton, head of the Oxford Internet Institute, on the book Republic.com 2.0 by Cass R Sunstein. Sunstein is arguing that too much information is bad for democracy (as I did in the recent paper I published for FastCapitalism. I proposed a way of designing…
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Blogging live from Prato
I am at the Community Informatics Research Network conference (CIRN) at Prato in Italy. It is still early into the first day of the conference, but I think that the conference will be fruitful in terms of addressing the question that I came here to deliberate upon. This is how do we design software for…
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Australian Research Enabling Environment
The ARCHER project will setup dedicated task forces for a number of NCRIS priority research capabilities to analyse their e Research data and information management needs and requirements, taking special note of existing IT services available and applicable to each research area. Adapting the generic DART middleware/software tools to suit each research area, these dedicated…