Nancy Pontika

KMi Summer Scholarships for Black Students at the MK Innovates Festival for the STEM

The KMi Summer Scholarships for Black Students stand at the MK Innovates Festival attracted interest and engagement from schoolteachers, parents, college lecturers, young people, and even the local job centre. School teachers were particularly interested in the program, with many expressing their desire to have us come and talk to their 16-year-old students who are…

KMi Summer Scholarships for Black Students at the MK Innovates Festival for the STEM

The KMi Summer Scholarships for Black Students stand at the MK Innovates Festival attracted interest and engagement from schoolteachers, parents, college lecturers, young people, and even the local job centre. School teachers were particularly interested in the program, with many expressing their desire to have us come and talk to their 16-year-old students who are…

KMi’s Polifonia team presented a Music Meets Machines workshop at the MK Innovates Festival

The "Music Meets Machines workshop" presented by the Polifonia team gave a look into cutting-edge technologies used to represent music history. Led by Alba Morales and Jason Carvalho, the event brought together local school students in Milton Keynes to learn about generative AI and music knowledge graphs. Through this exploration of music heritage information, attendees…

KMi participated at the MK Innovates Festival for the STEM in Schools Day

KMi was represented by three activities at the “MK Innovates Festival for the STEM in Schools Day”. The Knowledge Makers showcased an array of demonstrations ranging from innovative robots and intriguing puzzles to Lego and electronics projects, the Polifonia team presented a workshop on "Music Meets Machines", where it gave a look into cutting-edge technologies…

KMi presented at the Decentralised Knowledge Graph Conference (DKGcon) about Generative AI at the OU

Prof. John Domingue was invited to DKGcon (October 9, Ljubljana, Slovenia) where he gave a presentation on “How Decentralisation, Knowledge Graphs and Generative AI will Transform Adult Learning: Experiments at the Open University”. He also was part of a panel on “Trusted AI for media and education”.   The first DKGcon conference aimed to unite pioneers…

KMi at All-Party Parliamentary Group to Discuss Generative AI and Assessment

On September 12th, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Data Analytics and the Higher Education Commission delved into Generative AI and HE. In this roundtable session, which was chaired by Daniel Zeichner MP, the participants debated the influence of Generative AI on assessment and feedback within education.  Speakers at the event emphasized the impact of novel…

KMi becomes a partner in new EU-funded project on Open Science and cumulative advantage: ON-MERRIT

Success in research and innovation should primarily build and depend on clarity of thought, innovation of ideas, and integrity of processes, rather than on external factors like prior reputation or levels of resources.  Open Science and Responsible Research and Innovation aim to bring equity and inclusivity to research. Yet could policy interventions in these directions…

KMI’s CORE highly visible at Open Repositories 2019 conference

CORE participated at the Open Repositories conference (10 – 13 June 2019), which took place in Hamburg, Germany. This year’s conference theme was “All the user needs”, where CORE received much attention and participated actively with 5 presentations:     Assessing compliance with the UK REF2021 Open Access Policy Comparing the performance of OAI-PMH with…

KMi’s CORE to be used in the Research Excellence Framework – REF2021 audit

CORE a global aggregator of open access content and UK’s national aggregator will be assisting the UK Research and Innovation’s audit for the REF2021 by supplying the deposit date information for all UK REF outputs. Compliance with the REF2021 Open Access Policy is established when an author deposits the post-print or Author’s Accepted Manuscript in…

KMi’s CORE partners with Turnitin, a global leader in plagiarism detection software

CORE, the world’s largest aggregator of open access scientific content and Turnitin, a global leader in plagiarism detection software, have entered into a collaboration. Using CORE’s FastSync service, Turnitin’s proprietary web crawler will search through CORE’s vast global database of open access content and metadata—135 million metadata records from over 3,700 data providers and counting—to…