Linked Data, the sharing of data on the Web at large scale through the use of URIs, the HTTP protocol and RDF is gaining uptake at an ever increasing rate. As, commonly known, this technology is now supported by a number of large players including the UK Government, the BBC, Google, Yahoo and to some…
Teresa Connolly, KMi, & Jo Parker, Head of Information Literacy, OU Library attended the JISC/HEA OMAC & CILIP joint meeting at Senate House, London 26th July. It was a DELILA disemination event for developers of information & digital literacy teaching & learning materials organised by the London School of Economics (LSE), Birmingham University & the…
Alexandra Okada and Alexander Mikroyannidis from KMi organised an international workshop at the ED-MEDIA conference on June 29th in Lisbon, Portugal. The workshop was entitled “Social networking for collaborative authoring, adapting and sharing of Open Educational Resources” and was related to the work currently being undertaken within the OpenScout project. The workshop organisers introduced participants…
The second Web Science Summer School took place 6-13 July in Galway, Ireland. The school was organised by the Digital Enterprise Research Institute, NUI Galway, and was attended by over fifty international researchers. Harith Alani from KMi, who is a fellow of the Web Science Trust, was one of the invited speakers at the school…
Every two years the STI international holds a Semantic Summit aiming to discuss and address a number of open scientific and domain or industry challenges of strategic importance to STI and to the Semantic Technology Community. The third semantic summit was held last week in Riga and KMi representatives (John Domingue, Carlos Pedrinaci and Maria…
The 7th Joint European Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning took place in Chania, Crete from the 30th of May to the 3rd of June. 68 participants, young researchers and senior researcher, came together for one week to “adopt a critical stance in thinking about the role of technologies in providing opportunities for learners and…
Just under 50 students from twenty countries attended the first ESWC Summer School, which took place in Kalamaki, Crete during the last week of May. The event, directed by Prof John Domingue, and including Tutors who are leading researchers in the field, provided an opportunity for Masters and Ph.D. students in the area of the…
KMi’s Alan Fletcher was invited by LearnDirect to speak at the Skills and Learning workshop at GoOn ND11. GoON:ND11: the 6th National Digital Conference on 11th & 12th May 2011 at Old Billingsgate was the largest gathering and online participation to date of partners across the UK who want to work together to inspire, encourage…
KMi’s Simon Buckingham Shum has co-founded LearningEmergence.net, a research and development website and international network, with the Systems Centre: Learning & Leadership, University of Bristol. This collaborative venture exploits the complementary expertise of KMi’s work on social sensemaking knowledge media, with Ruth Deakin Crick’s work on 21st Century pedagogy, joining forces to drive forward our…
The UK Open Educational Resources (OER11) conference took place in the Manchester Conference Centre 11th-13th May 2011. KMi was represented by Teresa Connolly, Alexander Mikroyannidis, and Alexandra Okada. Teresa along with Elpida Makriyannis (IET), Tina Wilson (IET) and Andy Lane (MCT) ran a very successful workshop centred on the game OERopoly. Both the global version…
