Digital by Default

Category: jisc

  • 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…

  • Persistently Clueless

    On Wednesday I attended a JISC meeting on the subject of Persistent Identifiers (#jiscpid) which is a long term topic of discussion in JISC-world. Now I came to this as pretty much a newbie. I have a long history of obsessing over the design of URL schemes and remember reading the original(?) TBL paper on…

  • When Content Was King..

    For one reason or another this last week has had me thinking alot about my early days working on the web.  I started my web career in 1998 working at the library at the University of the West of England and back then the only qualification you needed to be left in charge of the…

  • Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk (Book Review)

    I first encountered Gary Vaynerchuk at FOWA Miami a couple of years ago.  I’d never heard of him nor his video blog but the Carsonified guys were (and remain) big fans of his so I was interested to see his talk.  As it turned out I only lasted a few minutes as his OTT personality…

  • The Jukesie JISC Projects Map

    I’ve been back at JISC a week now and am starting to get my head around my new role.  At the moment it is a strange mix between the familiar and comfortable and the unnervingly new and different but I’m sure it will settle down!  I have an interesting portfolio of work to get my…