Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Musings on Linked Data stuff

    So apparently “the idea that doing linked data is really hard is a myth” according to attendees at last weeks LinkedDataLondon event. I have to admit to wondering what they are comparing it to then as it seems to me that it is anything but easy. I am a little bit of a Linked Data…

  • [JISC] Weeknote 2/33

    Bit of a strange meeting/event dominated week. Was in London more than is probably healthy for a Brizzle boy like me. Main task on Monday was following through with contacting some of my projects to talk them through closing down the projects and what JISC expects from the final paperwork. This highlighted a bit of…

  • Is ePrints Going to be the WordPress of the Repository World?

    Amongst the many interesting things that were discussed at the Repositories and the Cloud event on Tuesday was the plans for ePrints to offer what Les Carr referred to as a ‘Blogger’ like option. Now I can only assume that Les has a long held fondness for Blogger as he hosts his RepositoryMan blog there…

  • BeerSpotr – social drinking for anti-social people

    At some point last week I spotted a tweet that looked something like @beerspotr pint:butcombegold**** and wondered what was going on but I didn’t think much about it again til today when I remembered and decided to take a look again. I’m glad I did as BeerSpotr is a fun idea – it is basically…

  • Listening to The Story

    On Friday I had the distinct pleasure of taking a short break from JISC-world and attending The Story, an event organised and curated by Matt Locke from Channel 4 although this was very much a personal project rather than anything work related. This was a very different kind of event – almost a spoken word…