CORE has been placed among the Top 100 Thesis & Dissertation References on the Web by OnlinePhDProgram.org. The list has been published yesterday. Online Ph.D. Program.org is dedicated to helping future doctoral candidates find the right program that meets their needs, desires, and goals. The site offers helpful blog posts, articles, and a wealth of…
The eCloud (Europeana Cloud: Unlocking Europe’s Research via The Cloud) project is about to start on the 1st of February 2013. Europeana Cloud is a €4 million project coordinated by the Europeana Foundation, designed to establish a cloud-based system for Europeana and its aggregators. In Europeana Cloud will be new content, new metadata, a new…
KMi together with University of Nottingham (CRC) and CottageLabs have been awarded a grant in the JISC Digital Infrastructure Programme to build a UK Open Access Repository Registry. KMi was invited to participate in this closed call directly by JISC based on our work in the CORE project. It has already been decided that the…
Congratulations to Dr. Izabel Meister on a successful defence of her PhD in Brazil. She achieved the highest score on the evaluation! Izabel was a KMi visiting student for a year under the co-supervision of Dr. Ale Okada here. She also participated in the KMi group of the European Project – OpenScout. Her research programme was…
After the successful final review meeting held on 10th, July in Madrid, here arrives the approved review report for the SEALS project that KMi has been significantly involved with for the last three years. The overall assessment rating is EXCELLENT. The report states that the SEALS project has fully achieved its objectives and technical goals…
Drahomira Herrmannova was awarded the Prize of Zdena Rabova by the Brno University of Technology. This prize is awarded annually by the dean of the faculty to two students for excellent study and science results. The nomination was supported by Drahomira’s diploma thesis, which she wrote during her period at KMi and which was based on paper by Drahomira…
And the best paper award of the ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing goes to ……. Claudia Wagner, Matthew Rowe, Markus Strohmaier and Harith Alani: "Ignorance isn’t Bliss: An Empirical Analysis of Attention Patterns in Online Communities" This paper presents work that identifies attention patterns in community forums and shows how such patterns differ between communities of…
OpenMinds, The Open University’s refreshed Alumni magazine, launched this month, featuring the work of KMi’s Simon Buckingham Shum. Read all about how information overload, sensemaking and complexity!… (With thanks to our SysAdmin team for loaning the KMI server room for dramatic shots!) Related Links: OpenMinds online version
Adam Rae became the 9th KMi student in the last year to successfully defended their PhD thesis on Friday 4th November. His thesis is entitled “Exploiting Social Networks for Recommendation in Online Image Sharing Systems” and experimental work undertaken during his studies has produced systems that help users in systems like Flickr to add more…
DiscoBro, an application developed by Mathieu d’Aquin from KMi, is one of the three winners of a developer competition organized by the Resource Discovery Task Force and also won the award for the best use of the MusicNet linked dataset. The aim of the competition was to demonstrate the benefits of open data and metadata…
