Morning all, and apologies for cross posting.
A scoping study for an Internet showcase for higher education in the UK has
recently been completed <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub98/shopwind.html>. This
study was commissioned by JISC and the four UK funding bodies. CVCP, UCAS
and the British Council have also been involved in the initial stage. A
consultancy firm has been appointed by the steering group
<http://www.hefce.ac.uk/Partners/Mallhome.htm > to help create a business
plan for the site. It is at this stage in the project development that the
steering group would like to solicit views from people in HE who maintain
their institution's web presence (either on the technical side or the
content side) as this proposed site will have some sort of relationship to
individual institution sites.
A new mailbase list has been set up to discuss the proposed new site, called:-
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If there's sufficient interest, a meeting between the consultants and any
interested parties from UK institutions could be organised for sometime in
April.
Damon Querry,
Registrar's Office & University Computing Service,
University of Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 7RU.
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