http://james.jiscinvolve.org Ramblings on e-Research Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:12:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Increasingly at JISC we are asking projects to look at who their audiences are and what the audience would like from the project.  I thought I'd write a post to explain what it is we are looking for as I realise it can be quite a confusing area.  I'd also ... http://james.jiscinvolve.org/2008/12/11/audiences/ This morning I got the final copy of this report so I popped it straight up onto the JISC site, which means you can see it around lunchtime if you click here. We feel this is an important report for the sector as it reviews a technology that we constantly get ... http://james.jiscinvolve.org/2008/12/09/jisc-openid-report/ I am currently sitting waiting for a sleeper back to London so it seemed a good time to reflect on this year's All Hands Meeting that I attended in Edinburgh, the main annual e-Science conference in the UK.  There were several changes for this year.  The first was the venue so goodbye ... http://james.jiscinvolve.org/2008/12/04/ahm2008/ I'm sitting in another conference where I've seen several presentations that are littered with XML that is then dissected ad nauseam.  Now, I'm sure that they are very valuable for the people who are presenting them and we're all familiar with the pride with which we talk about our new ... http://james.jiscinvolve.org/2008/12/04/less-of-the-xml/ Given this is my second blog entry in as many days you’re either in for a treat or the tedium continues; I leave  you to decide.  I’d also add that due to train issues, this and the above entry WERE written separately but offline as there doesn’t yet ... http://james.jiscinvolve.org/2008/11/07/idm2008/ I was recently at the NGS (National Grid Service) Innovation Forum 2008 to find out what existing users of the NGS were doing and to see what the reaction was to future plans for NGS Phase 3.  The first, very encouraging, point was that there were more ... http://james.jiscinvolve.org/2008/11/07/ngs-innovation-forum-2008/ I spotted this on the Oxford Internet Institute Newsletter, which may be of interest to those looking at privacy and identity. 3. New Research Project: Privacy Value Networks -------------------------------------------------- The OII is to lead the £2m Privacy Value Networks project: one of three awarded funding under the Technology Strategy Board's 'Ensuring Privacy and ... http://james.jiscinvolve.org/2008/10/16/new-research-project-privacy-value-networks/ This all sounds a little complex from the title above but I'm really looking forward to some good responses on this grant (started off as a call but has now moved into our new money issuing process so has a different name).  More details can be found here. For those with ... http://james.jiscinvolve.org/2008/10/10/grant-1008-project-to-develop-an-identity-toolkit/ I visited Paul Walk over at UKOLN recently to talk about Shared Infrastructure Services (SIS), amongst other things, and one idea that came out of that discussion was the 30-5-10 idea.I'll set a bit of background before ploughing into the idea itself.  Most projects at JISC do some really useful stuff that researchers, educationalists, ... http://james.jiscinvolve.org/2008/09/26/30-5-10/ Introduction I recently attended the NRENs and Grids Meeting in Dublin, kindly hosted by Trinity College.  It gathered together a European audience of those involved in providing national education networks (hence the NRENs bit) and those involved in developing grid software and hardware.  The JISC interest in this event was that ... http://james.jiscinvolve.org/2008/09/05/terena-nrens-and-grids-meeting-september-2008/