http://james.jiscinvolve.org Personal Ramblings on e-Research Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:11:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Perhaps somewhat ironically, finding the mashup event on location was difficult, even with a smart phone , which brought out some of the pros and cons of using location.It was raining hard so rather than juggle my umbrella and my phone I had a quick look at the map on ... http://james.jiscinvolve.org/2010/03/03/mashup-event-location-its-moving-on/ I went along to the Augmented Reality(AR) mashup event  yesterday evening to see what was happening outside the education sector for augmented reality.   JISC has been involved in a number of projects using smartphones and the Walking through Time project is looking at using AR to be ... http://james.jiscinvolve.org/2009/10/23/mashup-augmented-reality-event-2009/ So, we had a great session at the JISC Conference 2009 on identity and both Lawrie and I were exteremely pleased with the audience feedback and involvement we had.  I won't repeat the notes of what was discussed as the very diligent and accurate roving JISC blogger assigned to our ... http://james.jiscinvolve.org/2009/03/25/as-you-like-it-identity-at-jisc-conference-09/ This report has just gone up on the e-learning blog so please click here to get to the blog post, which has a link through to the report and explains some of the context plus offers a chance to comment.  Following on after the Review of OpenID, it would be ... http://james.jiscinvolve.org/2009/01/16/report-on-identity-management-for-lifelong-learning/ 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/