Dear Colleague,
With apologies to those of you who have already received this, but I
thought the list might be interested in the latest issue of the JISC
Headlines enewsletter (see below).
This issue makes reference to the UK Discovery Open Metadata Principles
to which the Collections Trust is a signatory. If the listserv mangles
the HTML, you can also read the full text of the announcement about the
Principles at
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2011/07/openmetadata.aspx.
If you want to cut through all that and go straight to the Principles,
go to: http://discovery.ac.uk/businesscase/principles/.
You might also want to take a look at Alastair Dunning's excellent piece
on Crowdsourcing in the Guardian -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/2011/jul/29/crowdsour
cing-funding-research-expertise
All best,
Nick
A monthly summary of news from JISC and its services
Issue 94, July 2011
Featured story
JISC calls for all metadata to be openly accessible
<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2011/07/openmetadata.aspx>
Unlocking the descriptive information or metadata about digital content,
articles, books and research is the key to making it more useful,
according to the JISC-funded resource discovery
taskforce as it embarks on a new programme of work.
Twelve national organisations have signed up to a new set of open
metadata principles and now JISC is inviting all publicly funded
organisations including universities, colleges, libraries, museums and
archives to make the same commitment.
Continue reading...
<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2011/07/openmetadata.aspx>
Digital wardrobe shows UK's changing lifestyles
<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2011/07/fashion.aspx> 29 July 2011
Historic medical manuscripts go online
<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2011/07/manuscripts.aspx> 25 July
2011
Open data challenge: what treasures can you find?
<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2011/07/treasure.aspx> 18 July 2011
JISC calls for all metadata to be openly accessible
<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2011/07/openmetadata.aspx> 11 July
2011
Birth of modern China in massive online archive
<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2011/07/china.aspx> 6 July 2011
Forthcoming events...
Transfer Summit 2011
<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2011/09/transfersummit.aspx>
5-8 September 2011
Keble College, Oxford
Latest thinking and practice in
applying open innovation in software
Research Integrity Conference
<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2011/09/researchintegrity.aspx>
13 September 2011
Wellcome Collection
conference centre
The importance of good data
management
JISC in the media
Blog posts
Key coverage this month includes:
Alastair Dunning's opinion piece on
crowdsourcing in Research Information
<http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=805>
and the Guardian
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/2011/jul/29/crowdsou
rcing-funding-research-expertise>
<http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/07/arab-medicine-goes-digital/>
JISC's Arabic manuscripts project in Wired magazine
<http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/07/arab-medicine-goes-digital/>
Aaron Porter on JISC's East London Lives
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2011/jul/28/the
resa-may-international-students>
project on the Guardian Higher Education blog
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2011/jul/28/the
resa-may-international-students>
See more press coverage <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/presscoverage.aspx>
Why watching TV can be <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/tv/>
good for you <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/tv/>
Looking to transform your <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/curriculum/>
curriculum? <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/curriculum/>
Imagine Google without a search box
<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/imagine-google-without-a-search-box/>
See more blog posts <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/>
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