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 …
This week i attened the Cetis OER gathering. When i arrived in Glasgow I was not really sure what to expect. It didnt seem as though and clear goals for the event had been outlined. As it turned out the …
So iMapping, thats pretty great. Check it out. Personal knowledge management is not the most focussed knowledge management. Most people dont have that much knowledge to manange. However for researchers where we always have large corpuses of material and often …
So today was the first offical day of the Conference. This morning started with the opening keynote. As with all keynotes the range of topics covered was broad. There was some really strong emphasis so far on both days that …
Hypertext Day 2 – Keynote, Search, Recommendation and E-Lit Read more »