The NeOn Project held their latest Team Meeting at Charmeil, Saint-Quentin-en-Isère, near Grenoble. The highlight of the week was a evening snow-shoe trek on the Vercors mountain to visit the "refuge de Gève" mountain shelter, which was arranged by host partner, INRIA. NeOn is a 14m EC-funded project which aim is to develop tools for…
On Friday 2nd January 2009, Italian climber Lorenzo Gariano complete a 12-year quest to complete the Seven Summits challenge – that is to climb the highest mountain on each of the world’s continents – with a successful first-attempt climb of Vinson Massif on Antarctica. He becomes only the third Italian in history to have completed…
Today the KMi Access Grid Node was used for its first live session, using the two LCD screens on the east wall of the Media Lab. Access Grid is a full duplex audio/video conferencing system supported on JANET network by the University of Manchester. The Timescapes AG meeting involved 18 participants from the following universities:…
New for 2008, the KMi Service OUFM, sees our highly successful FlashMeeting project providing a generic video meeting, recording and analysis system directly to the Open University community. OU users can now log in directly to the OUFM server with their OU secure authentication identity (SAMS) to automatically use any of its features without extra…
This weekend sees the launch of a new social networking site "Volunteer Passport" for the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV). KMi developer Alex Little has been volunteering for BTCV helping to develop and launch the site. The site is based on the ELGG platform and provides ePortfolio facilities for the charities key volunteers, allowing…
Cohere [http://cohereweb.net] is a new web-centric knowledge mapping tool from the Knowledge Media Institute’s Open Sensemaking Communities project, working as part of the OU-wide OpenLearn initiative: Cohere enables learners, researchers and analysts to: record ideas, and add relevant websites make meaningful connections between ideas visualize the emerging network of your ideas, and the world’s, in…
Ever needed to find out where you could publish your latest work on social network analysis? Or have you ever wondered works of which researchers you may include in your PhD literature review on tagging? Or perhaps you want to know what are other research interests of Tim Berners-Lee’s community of practice? Answers to these…
KMi PhD student Tom Heath features in a new podcast released today, where he talks about his research at KMi, Revyu.com, and Linked Data, with Paul Miller of Birmingham-based technology company Talis. Paul Miller writes: "In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Tom Heath about his Ph.D research at the Open University’s…
In March, KMi’s Ben Hawkridge lent his expertise on ADSL and webcasting technologies to a unique event. Documentary film The Planet was simultaneously screened in cinemas around the world. After the showing, a panel of leading environmental scientists, chaired by Dr Mike Bullivant, answered questions from around the world from the Berrill Lecture Theatre. Questions…
KMi hosted another very successful Making The News Day. Seven pupils from St.Mary’s School showed off their newsmaking skills to a number of visitors including the DfES’ Doug Brown. The new graphic design for the site, from Peter Devine, was also shown for the first time. Photos: Teacher Julian Gabe supervises the download of an…
