Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • [JISC] Weeknote 15/33

    Well that was an interesting week. I awoke Monday morning to a Twitter stream full of rumors about the imminent closure of Becta and significant worries about the future of HEFCE and by implication JISC. Lovely way to start the week. As it happened the rumors regarding Becta were correct and while it is fair…

  • 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…