Author: Matt Jukes

  • Google Prediction API and OER Discovery?

    Last week at the Google I/O event Google released all manner of geeky toys for developers to play with and the tech blogosphere is doing the usual job of picking them apart and focusing on opportunities to make a dollar (or $50million). The one that struck me as interesting was the Google Prediction API. To…

  • [JISC] Weeknote 14/33

    A big part of the focus of this week was on OER matters again – which is good as I am finding myself more and more interested in this area of activity. I wrote a couple of blogposts; one on my work blog outlining some issues and achievements on the technical side of our OER…

  • We’ll Meet Again (and Again, and Again..)

    One way or another I attend an awful lot of meetings. More than most people probably but less some some unlucky souls. Some are interesting, some are simply dull and others are damn right painful. Very few are fun. In my opinion even less are genuinely useful. I used to see them as a necessary…

  • RDFa and OER DiscoverEd

    I have been quite open about my struggles with Linked Data but I have recently decided to focus on the bit of it closer to the web, the RDFa/XHTML stuff that has similarities to the microformat stuff I embraced a few years ago. Pete recently wrote an extremely helpful post over at eFoundations that got…

  • [JISC] Weeknote 13/33

    God this felt like a long week! Have just tracked through my email a bit as I’m struggling a bit remember the beginning of the week. I know I spent some time arranging to get some publicity for a report we commissioned via some USA based partners – I’ve been a bit slow in making…