In order to showcase collaborative project work for the OU Council “student support” residential weekend, KMi and Earth Sciences joined forces today to give a live demo to the council of how digital technology has been used to solve the problem of Enabling Remote Access. The project was born out of the need of Earth…
The overwhelming majority of world scientists have recognised that global warming is a man-made reality, an escalating threat to life on Earth and the greatest challenge that has ever faced humanity. In order to limit the devastating effects of global warming, the carbon dioxide emissions that are causing it must be drastically reduced within the…
ESWC participants were positively glowing at the first NeOn Glowfest in Innsbruck on 4th June, which marked the launch of the first version of the NeOn Toolkit. This release of the NeOn Toolkit was the starting point for the creation of a NeOn Community of users. The Glowfest was the first in a series of…
Geographical presence maps are now available in MSG on both of the OpenLearn websites, LearningSpace and LabSpace. The MSG Presence Maps use the Google Maps API and allow users to see where their contacts are located, their current presence state and, if online, the option to chat to the user with a single click. Anyone…
They do say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. The BBC’s own project School Report, running today to encourage students to learn the skills of journalism and "make their own news", shows remarkable resemblances to KMi’s Making The News project (based on our ROSTRA technology). Twelve and thirteen year-old children from 100 schools…
The newest version of FlashMeeting, version 3.0 is now live on the core research server. This version introduces the concept of "signing-in" to an event to unlock new features. The applet keeps a tight hold of the lightest possible principle, in that users can still just come to an event as a web url and…
Jessica Bartlett presented KMi's collaborative project "ERA" (Enabling Remote Activity) to Earth Sciences today. Set up as a trial to provide remote access to field locations for a mobility-impaired student on the SXR339 summer school, KMi were called in to provide technical expertise on still and video imaging and wireless networking technologies. The workshop heard…
NeOn partners gathered from July 4th to 6th 2006 for their second Plenary Meeting, hosted by KMi. The focus of the meeting was for the workgroups to review the progress made during the first four months of the project, and to consolidate their work plans. In addition, a key factor identified for the project's success,…
The NeOn project kicked off in Rome on 20th March with a three-day meeting hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Project Coordinator, Enrico Motta, hailed the event as an excellent start to the project, with the team being highly motivated to achieve their goals. NeOn, Lifecycle Support for Networked Ontologies,…
DIP is a 3-year 11 million UKP EU Integrated Project, on semantic web services, involving 16 partners from 10 countries. Like most EU projects DIP is subject to a two day annual review involving three external reviewers and a project officer from the funding unit. DIP’s second annual review was held last week in the…
