A cloudless sky in the Hague, Netherlands saw on the 4th and 5th March the Europeana Cloud kick-off. The event was visited by about 70 delegates from the partner institutions and also by the chief of the responsible European Commission unit. One of the important tasks of the kick-off was to further discuss the infrastructure requirements that will be…
The KMI team consisting of Petr Knoth, Drahomira Herrmannova and Zdenek Zdrahal achieves in the NTCIR-10 CrossLink evaluation competition according to the organisers overall best results in the English to Chinese, Japanese and Korean (English to CJK) task and is the top (steadily among the three best and mostly second best) performer in the CJK to English…
We have just been informed by Springer that our book: The Future Internet: Achievements and Technological Promises, published in 2011, has now had over 22,000 chapter downloads. The book, whose chief editor is John Domingue, covers the main technical areas related to the Future Internet, a European initiative which brings together over 150 projects under…
It is with great sadness we pass on the news that Dr Peter Whalley, who recently retired from KMi due to ill-health, died on Tuesday 8 January 2013 in Willen Hospice. Peter joined the OU in 1976, initially working in the Institute of Educational Technology. He joined the Knowledge Media Institute at its formation in 1995, where…
The ROLE project has released a new video, outlining its scope and outcomes. Several project partners, among them Peter Scott and Alexander Mikroyannidis, talk about their experiences in the project. The achievements of ROLE are explained, as well as how one can benefit from them. A lot of the filming for this video was done…
The kickoff meeting of the weSPOT project took place in Heerlen, Netherlands. Funded by the European Commission, 9 partner institutions will collaborate throughout the next 3 years to provide a Working Environment with Social, Personal and Open Technologies for Inquiry Based Learning across European higher academic institutions and schools. The weSPOT environment will support users…
The final review of the OpenScout project took place yesterday in Luxembourg. The review was very successful, with an outcome of “excellent progress” for the project. The project officer and the reviewers commended the consortium on fostering the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) in management education and training. Alexander Mikroyannidis presented the outcomes of the…
The annual General Assembly of EA-TEL e.V., the European Association for Technology-Enhanced Learning, has seen an exciting line-up of new special interest groups: the SIG TEA (co-lead by Denise Whitelock of the Open University) deals with technology-enhanced assessment and SIG OpenScout cares for OER in business and management education. The annual meeting was also used…
Professor Stefan Rüger of KMi was named programme co-chair of ECIR 2013 to be held in Moscow in March 2013. This is the 35th annual instalment of the conference, which has been held in previous years in Toulouse (2009), Milton Keynes (2010), Dublin (2011) and Barcelona (2012), and which is considered the main European forum…
KMI and the European Library/Europeana jointly organised the 1st International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications associated with JCDL 2012 – the most prestigious conference in the world of digital libraries. The workshop was attended by major players in the field including the National Library of Medicine, Library of Congress, CiteSeerX, Elsevier and British Library. Although…
