“I know what you’re thinking… but don’t worry, this is a talk on cloud computing and being lost is normal”.
As promised last week, our draft metadata guidelines for the UK Resource Discovery Taskforce are now available for comment in JISCPress. The guidelines are intended to apply to UK libraries, museums and archives in the context of the JISC…
In my last post I mentioned that there was a ‘Cloud solutions: risk or reward?’ session at the recent JISC Conference in Liverpool. You can watch the three presentations that were made as part of that session by visiting the…
I attended part of UKSG earlier this week, listening to three great presentations in the New approaches to research session on Monday afternoon (by Philip Bourne, Cameron Neylon and Bill Russell) and presenting first thing Tuesday morning…
I attended UCISA’s Cloud Computing Seminar last week, a pretty good event overall though, like many ‘cloud’ events, there was quite a mix of IaaS (e.g. Amazon Web Services (AWS)) and SaaS (e.g. Google Apps) presentations so it sometimes felt like the programme was jumping around…
It’s been a while since the HEFCE announcement about UMF and there was quite a…
A few weeks ago I blogged about the work that Pete and I have been doing on metadata…
Having just finished reading thru the 196 comments we received on the draft metadata guidelines for the UK RDTF I’m now in the process of wondering where we go next. We (Pete and I) have relatively little effort to take this work forward…
We (Pete and I) have been asked by the JISC and RLUK to develop some metadata guidelines for use by the UK Resource Discovery Taskforce as it rolls out its vision [PDF].
Old joke…
A snail goes into a pub and says to the barman, “I’ve just been mugged by two tortoises”. The barman looks a bit shocked and says, “Oh no, that’s terrible. What happened?”.
