Foundations

Gimme DDaT Ding

I spent yesterday in London at the Government ICT conference. An early start from Bath but worth the trouble — the conference…

Lawrie Phipps of the JISC has written a nice response to the recommendations of the report to HEFCE by the NUS (the UK National Union of Students), Student perspectives on technology — demand, perceptions and training needs [PDF], which…

The Cloud Solutions team in Jisc works with a variety of members and customers from across education and the wider public- and third- sectors on a variety of projects and activities. For many, our primary focus is to help them with the strategic planning…

Cloud adoption in UK universities

I spent part of last week at Networkshop47 in Nottingham, a Jisc conference predominantly aimed at…

One of the things we did with our last tranche of Eduserv Foundation project funding (a couple of years ago now) was to fund Harry Halpin of Edinburgh University to work on what became the W3C Social Web Incubator Group. The result of…

One specific issue that came up during discussions at the FAM10 conference (see my previous post) was about the use of ‘attributes’ vs ‘entitlements’ in the SAML messages passed from Identity Providers to Service Providers’. For the…