tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46900603110395003282011-07-08T00:01:11.360-07:00Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.comBlogger321100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-19218319952152085992010-06-16T07:23:00.000-07:002010-06-16T07:27:26.886-07:00

As part of my new role at St Andrews I am evaluating software for hosting online journals. Open Journal Systems from the Public Knowledge Project supports the refereed publishing process and will allow academics to create and manage their own open access journals hosted by the University. Lots of exciting possibilities to be explored...

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-43213444178278883082010-06-16T07:16:00.000-07:002010-06-16T07:20:06.962-07:00

Just started a new post at St Andrews University working with a new Research Information System called Pure and its links with the institutional repository. Lots of testing to do before implementation, so busy exploring functionality and preparing user guides and advocacy material.

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-31048709401922471972010-02-09T02:02:00.002-08:002010-02-09T02:08:01.750-08:00

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-1371810653674915702010-02-09T02:02:00.001-08:002010-02-09T02:02:32.442-08:00

ARC-Deposit-SHS

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-43279465308263613222010-01-27T04:06:00.000-08:002010-01-27T04:09:11.144-08:00

Deposit guide for Abertay Research Collections2010-01-14_ARCdeposit

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-856127748169702562010-01-07T07:51:00.000-08:002010-01-23T03:55:54.018-08:00

Trial of new features in Abertay library catalogueWe are currently running a trial of new features in the library catalogue. Please tell us what you think by voting below.(trends)

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-69915667279866988982009-05-14T01:50:00.001-07:002009-05-14T02:07:13.969-07:00

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-86243984026125951752009-02-12T12:16:00.000-08:002009-02-12T12:20:01.604-08:00

Might give this a go to add the odd new title to our blog. Could sign up as Amazon associate and get the revenue too!

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-51519607124620911032008-10-19T15:24:00.000-07:002008-10-19T16:24:45.236-07:00

The excellent Geograph website has reached an amazing one million images of Great Britain and Ireland, all licensed for reuse under Creative Commons. A fantastic effort by thousands of volunteers contributing to a permanent, free and educational resource. This is the 1,000,000th image to appear on the Geograph website. © Copyright Dr Richard Murray andlicensed for reuse under this Creative

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-12755053533198873882008-08-03T13:36:00.000-07:002008-08-03T14:34:19.934-07:00

Attended a few events this week where audience participation was the key to success. Only to be expected at Edinburgh Fringe preview shows (more on that later) but the newest repository 'unconference' on 31 July and 1 Aug was designed to encourage this too.The Repository Fringe was a timely and inspiring event. We kicked off with a declaration from Dorothea Salo that the IR is dead, provoking two

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-41671298580543255902008-03-11T16:29:00.000-07:002008-03-11T16:43:32.281-07:00

Charlesworth, A and Ferguson, N and Schmoller, S and Smith, N and Tice, R Sharing eLearning Content: a synthesis and commentaryA major review and synthesis of the work of various specified projects and programmes engaged in the development, use and sharing of elearning content.This report highlights the cultural, legal and organisational issues that need to be addressed, and comments on the

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-34941385744253720182007-12-21T10:06:00.000-08:002007-12-21T10:16:53.331-08:00

Full scale dissemination of TrustDR development pack onto lists and blogs has already happened, with the release below:>The final outputs of the JISC TrustDR project are now available.Managing Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Digital Learning Materials: A Development Pack for Institutional RepositoriesAuthors: John Casey, Jackie Proven & David DrippsDistributed under a Creative Commons

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-54061037695369134992007-10-24T12:49:00.000-07:002007-10-24T12:56:23.437-07:00

Finally got some photos on flickr from our Italy trip. Plan to get some more up there soon, if I get the hang of our new camera.Keith's gallery is looking good too!

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-34451746180057373092007-10-01T13:12:00.000-07:002007-10-01T13:35:39.081-07:00

TrustDR will hopefully develop a life of its own now that both project workers have taken up new posts. Feedback on our major output: Managing IPR in Digital Learning Materials: A Development Pack for Institutional Repositories has been collated and wide dissemination will follow. We will keep an eye on developments and hope to hear of some instituions using the Pack in practice.In the meantime,

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-35464059889113990932007-07-11T07:00:00.000-07:002007-07-11T08:49:51.785-07:00

Browsing some resources on the very useful TechDis website I found some very interesting reading on holistic approaches to e-learning accessibility. In Developing a Holistic Approach for E-Learning Accessibility the authors present a realistic view of e-learning activity and discuss both technical and pedagogic issues, arriving at a pragmatic solution that addresses usability and the learner

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-13014459604616968982007-07-06T08:37:00.000-07:002007-07-09T04:29:56.274-07:00

A draft report from the Repositories Research Team (a collaboration between UKOLN and JISCCETIS), "An ecological approach to repository and service interactions" has been published for consultation. It uses metaphors from ecology to represent the interactions between repositories and services, and in this way does provide a useful conceptual mapping at a high level by tapping into existing frames

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-87585021608825312512007-07-02T09:11:00.000-07:002007-07-02T09:30:29.257-07:00

Some interesting discussions took place at the recent joint meeting of the JISC CETIS Metadata and Digital Repositories/Educational Content SIGs which was investigating new ways of sharing content. Technologies seem to fall into 2 categories - conventional or disruptive.Conventional types are managed and controlled by institutions, such as VLEs, and its interesting that Learning Object

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-61241549248489744392007-06-21T06:56:00.000-07:002007-06-21T07:22:27.073-07:00

Just been reading a couple of recently published reports on Web 2.0 relating to education.The TechWatch report really gets beneath the technologies and while describing many of them in detail (blogs, wikis, RSS etc.) clearly puts them in their place; simply as ways of supporting specific ways of working, attitudes to content and new business models. In fact these technologies return the power of

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-61141860773524162702007-06-19T03:41:00.000-07:002007-06-19T04:07:21.036-07:00

Much of the TrustDR work produced over the last couple of years has been looking at the underlying business model for mainstream e-learning and how establishing what that really is points to an 'IPR management regime' - at its most basic, whether the value is in the content or in the teaching process (supported by shared content), and choosing appropriate licences to express your intent.There's a

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-81817475517321944962007-05-28T06:42:00.000-07:002007-05-28T07:02:17.723-07:00

Fantastic video using some familiar animated characters from film 'snippets' to explain the concepts of copyright and fair use. Cleverly done, part of the Fair Use Project at Stanford Law School so comes with a certain amount of authority, and should help to put across the notion of 'Get a grip'!

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-28894322220591547492007-05-25T06:06:00.000-07:002007-05-25T06:16:45.510-07:00

The Perth College Library Webspots blog highlights a really useful online interactive copyright activity launched by JISC Collections recently. The tool uses common scenarios with related questions to introduce the legal issues, and gives some helpful pointers on how to carry on with the business of education within the bounds of the law.

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-53383994896306104832007-05-21T01:58:00.000-07:002007-05-21T02:24:15.180-07:00

As guest contributor to Penn State's Open Source Software in Education Series, James Dalziel has posted a fascinating discussion about Learning Design and what he calls Open Source Teaching - the use of Open licences such as Creative Commons to share codified descriptions of educational processes.Some interesting points are raised about the use of licensing; attitudes to commercial/non-commercial

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-37394438560350336152007-05-04T15:14:00.000-07:002007-05-04T15:31:23.202-07:00

SNP - sort of.Finally decided at 5.30pm with the very last list result, the party with the most seats in the Scottish elections is the SNP. Almost managed to forget the complete shambles of the vote in the excitement! Now the reality sets in while everyone tries to work out who their friends are.Brian Taylor's blog gives a brief and to the point commentary on proceedings.(I'm pretty sure the

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-48727196967188163652007-04-30T13:29:00.000-07:002007-04-30T13:41:58.050-07:00

An article by Kenneth Mentor in the Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration provides some very reasoned arguments for Open Access Learning Environments that could help with advocacy. While speaking from a US perspective, the situation sounds familiar with misapprehension and assumptions about intellectual property, value, privacy etc. stifling potential benefits. Some very practical

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-68902595429426377622007-04-19T12:12:00.000-07:002007-04-30T13:09:08.009-07:00

Lots of stories and comments appearing this week about Open and user-generated educational content, so will gather some here in the best Remix fashion...The OU is using YouTube to promote OpenLearn, emphasising the 'extra value' reuse possibilities as well as access to free educational resources.OECD release a study called Participative Web: User-Created Content looking at the impact and

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-10873050632746873802007-04-13T03:48:00.000-07:002007-04-13T04:11:27.923-07:00

Creative Commons (CC) is growing in use and awareness, and is helping change attitudes to digital content and its possibilities. The Eduserv Foundation has recently announced support for CC in the form of a donation, recognising the opportunities these licences present for education."CC has liberated us from thinking first and foremost about protecting and restricting content and has given us the

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-69441562051495159632007-03-30T10:26:00.000-07:002007-03-30T10:48:09.133-07:00

After careful consideration, MIT Libraries have cancelled a subscription to an online database that demands access is controlled by a Digital Rights Management plug-in. In a related story, authors are given guidance on retaining rights in their published work to allow reuse in teaching or deposit in Open archives.The Open Access march moves on...Meanwhile parts of the music industry are also

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-64065899789316998972007-03-28T10:22:00.000-07:002007-03-28T10:44:56.616-07:00

The British Chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization has recently been established, and ISKO UK held its inaugural meeting on 26th March 2007. The association aims to promote understanding of Knowledge Organization practices across diverse domains, aiming to share good practice and enhance information skills amongst all users of information.They are welcoming new members

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-15740929256113286592007-03-27T03:13:00.000-07:002007-03-27T03:26:27.769-07:00

I continue to trawl around finding resources about metadata - you can never have enough descriptions of descriptions about stuff, or data on data about data - can you?Anyway, just a couple here:A useful page of resources from the University of Virginia. Ignore everything if you like and head straight for Metadata Fun and play Guess-the-Google! Addictive, but also a useful lesson in the problems

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-32863981461392744392007-03-23T09:25:00.000-07:002007-03-27T03:50:04.944-07:00

In case you haven't spotted the links on the right, I'll just start off by mentioning Creative Commons (CC) licensing. It's basically a really simple way to let people know how they can use your work, while still giving you copyright protection and attribution. The licences come in several shapes and sizes, but all of them have versions that humans, computers and lawyers can understand! This

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-72912553805341297492007-03-23T07:56:00.000-07:002007-03-23T10:09:27.829-07:00

Most of the gathered thoughts and links I post here will relate to my job, but in some ways that doesn't really narrow things down! I am (was?) a librarian so there will be stuff about information management, metadata, organising knowledge, digital libraries and repositories... I work in education so there will be musings on e-learning, institutional culture, learning objects... I am doing

Jackie Provennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690060311039500328.post-87473274710494084852007-03-16T12:29:00.000-07:002007-03-16T05:30:30.550-07:00

Well, I've finally got round to putting pen to paper, or rather fingers to keyboard, and entered the world of blogs. Bit of a late starter on this occasion! I wite so much in other places that it seemed an odd thing to do, but you never know, it might prove useful.I have good intentions, but with a day-job, studying part time and a house to renovate my posts may be rather infrequent. I'm also not

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