So, when faced with the task of building the Research Object Builder, a couple of goals were expressed: It should be designed to interact with other systems as much as possible, that is, it should take in RDF from some …
Recently I’ve been looking at methods to get all the feeds from the University web presence and compile them all into a big list for later use. This is harder than it looks since the University website is a large …
To find out what students (and staff) wanted from the new learning environment, we drafted a short survey which asked participants to rank several potential widgets (similar to those on the iGoogle page) in order of preference. Before producing a …
What makes for a good RSS feed? Or more specifically, what makes an RSS feed look attractive when viewed in a ‘Personalised Magazine’ format. That’s what I’ve been trying to find out and have come up with three (plus one …
The first part of any large project is finding out what your client actually wants. We want the SLE to be not only functional, but enjoyable to use as well and, with this goal in mind, want to include the …
I will use the term Personalised Magazine to describe the social media and news aggregation applications I discussed in the last post. It seems to fit the purpose nicely and makes sense. There are lots of different apps and many …
CampusROAR: Looking at some desktop Personalised Magazine apps. Read more »
There’s currently a problem in the way that much research is judged almost exclusively on papers written about it – in the current day there are frequently many other different aspects to the research. The problems associated with this were …
Currently it is difficult to keep up with research progress and developments even within your own University campus. News is usually divided into lots of separate RSS or Atom feeds which do not tend to present their information in a …
My internship consists of helping develop the new Southampton Learning Environment (SLE) – “a 24/7 ‘one stop shop’ for learning and living needs at the University of Southampton” as the research team’s website puts it. When finished, it will include …
Southampton Learning Environment Internship: Overview Read more »
We recently published a paper titled “Aggregated Erevnametrics: bringing together alt-metrics through Research Objects” and everyone, to my knowledge, who has read the title asks me the same question. “What are Erevnametrics?” Erevnametrics is a compound word taken from the …