{"id":9,"date":"2009-03-24T11:09:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T18:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=9"},"modified":"2009-03-24T11:09:28","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T18:09:28","slug":"opening-digital-doors-jisc09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2009\/03\/opening-digital-doors-jisc09\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Digital Doors &#8211; JISC09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m in Edinburgh for the JISC Conference. I&#8217;ve already done a brief post on a demonstration of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2009\/03\/sword.html\">SWORD API<\/a> for depositing material into digital repositories, but now the opening session with an introduction by Malcolm Reid (Executive Secretary JISC), and address by Tim O&#8217;Shea (Chair of JISC).<\/p>\n<p>Malcolm Reid starts by reflecting on some of the issues raised yesterday at the &#8216;pre-conference&#8217; sessions held yesterday, which unfortunately I wasn&#8217;t able to attend. This is a bit of a mixed bag &#8211; I think I might recommend looking out blog posts from yesterday instead of trying to summarise here.<\/p>\n<p>Now Tim O&#8217;Shea talking about what JISC has been, is, and will be doing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Research Excellence\n<ul>\n<li>Virtual Research Environments\n<li>Re-use of Research Materials in E-learning environments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Institutional Drivers\n<ul>\n<li>Open Access Learning Materials\n<li>Knowledge Transfers &#8211; engagement with commercial environment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Making Savings and Working Smarter\n<ul>\n<li>Access Management &#8211; UK Federation now the largest Access Management Federation in the world!\n<li>JISC Collections\n<ul>\n<li>Saviing money on license agreements\n<li>Giving access to more resources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Institutional Repositories\n<li>Green ICT &#8211; huge numbers of computers in UK HE &#8211; cost to sector over \u00a3100million in ICT electricity bills (I&#8217;d be suprised if this was anything like an accurate figure to be honest &#8211; instinctively feels low, don&#8217;t ask me to justify that)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Next 12 months\n<ul>\n<li>New strategy for JISC for 2010-12\n<li>Focus on Value for Money\n<li>Looking at Enterprise-wide Systems\n<li>Looking at Knowledge Transfer and Wealth Creation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Highlights for Tim over the day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Launch of Box of Broadcasts (BoB) by BUFVC\n<li>New\/updated services from Edina and Mimas (Geocode crosswalk, Archives Hub and COPAC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:d2c4cf24-b7bf-4bbc-aa31-2e989db667d4\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/jisc09\" rel=\"tag\">jisc09<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m in Edinburgh for the JISC Conference. I&#8217;ve already done a brief post on a demonstration of the SWORD API for depositing material into digital repositories, but now the opening session with an introduction by Malcolm Reid (Executive Secretary JISC), and address by Tim O&#8217;Shea (Chair of JISC). Malcolm Reid starts by reflecting on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}