Earlier this month I took part in a workshop:The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on Various Applications, at the Edinburgh e-Science Institute (eSI) this event was part of a thematic programme looking at
The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users.
One of the major problems with building a distributed system is that it's distributed. This means that the parts of the system need to talk to each other. Of course, these days, networks are viewed by most large network operators (e.g. universities) as hostile environments, where anything even remotely risky is split out, preferably into its own little subnet.
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I took a good deep look at one of the datasets I'm meant to be linking up today. Actually, it's four separate datasets, but all held within the same database. I poked around a bit, and found this:
Today I presented at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh event "The Influence and Impact of Web 2.0 on Various Applications". Following that an attendee pointed me towards ICST (The Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering) http://icst.org and their MyBoard project http://icst.org/myboard/ which has some overlapping aims with LinkSphere.
A Brief introduction to one of the UCLDH projects
I’m the research assistant (Claire Ross) on project LinkSphere, which is a joint research project with the University of Reading , funded by the JISC Virtual Research Environment 3 programme. The project is aiming to develop a virtual research environment (VRE) which will allow cross-repository searching across [...]
Twitter is everywhere. It is one of the key web 2.0 applications that grown hugely in the last year and is now being is being used by everyone and anyone. But does it have any use in academia? Or is it just narcissistic twaddle?
Last year I attended the excellent Museums and [...]
After a project meeting today, it was suggested that I keep a note of all of the "interesting" issues that I encounter with the various data repositories I encounter on the project. So, here's the first of them.
The JSC funded Linksphere project has 2 strands:1. Producing a unified system for accessing the university's repositories;2. Developing a social network for researchers. The social network is now available to researchers from the University of Reading, if you want to give it a try you can access it from http://www.reading.ac.uk/linksphere/
In the always-beta Web2.0 world, there is a tendency for sites to never be finished. But the same is true in the world of commercial software, where it is in the owners commercial interest (allegedly) to have a release schedule which provides new functionality over time, requiring upgrades and new investment in the software.
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