Beyond Grid vs Cloud – EGI Community Forum 2012
‘The grid? Shouldn’t they all be doing cloud computing now?’ As a JISC programme manager working with the National Grid Service (NGS) project people ask me this question more and more often....
View ArticleBridging the Divide: The role of libraries in the sciences
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikolski/3269902495/ While libraries come to terms with new forms of scholarly communication and the technological transformation of the academy, has one academic domain...
View ArticleThe JISC ebooks universe
My colleague Ben Showers has recently been looking across the work taking place around digital books in all their forms: open textbooks, digital monographs, epub, web-based books. For educational...
View ArticleObserving the Web
Like a lot of people, when I think about it, or when I’m reminded about it, I understand that the Web is a place where someone is always watching what you do. I understand that … but then I think, well...
View ArticleHow you can help us to make research administration more efficient
Jisc and CASRAI are piloting the development of a ‘UK chapter’ of the CASRAI dictionary to improve research interoperability. Get in touch by emailing info@casrai.org if you’d like to keep up-to-date...
View ArticleResearch Data Sharing without barriers…get involved?
Research Data Alliance (RDA) – second plenary meeting – Washington DC – 16th – 18th September. Many readers of this blog will know about the Research Data Alliance already, but there will, I guess also...
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