Widget developing guide and workshops
Tore blogs about iCoper exploiting the capabilities of widgets to deliver "units of learning". This is an area that we have explored for several years now and I look forward to work on this in iCoper. One of the results of our previous work is the widget for the Spider service for searching Open [...]
International Repositories Workshop
An international workshop on repository infrastructures in Amsterdam 16-17 March
"An international agenda for action on repositories infrastructure"
Background
Networks of open access repositories for research papers have been created in many countries and regions, and subject and funder repositories have been established that are both national and international. Examples include:
* DAREnet in the Netherlands
* UK Repositories Infrastructure
* [...]
Spindeln version 1.5
Today I finalized the last things that needed to be done on Spindeln (the Spider) v 1.5. Spindeln is a Swedish broker for digital learning resources. Hence, Spindeln can be used to search for digital learning resources in several different (Swedish) archives. This is done using two approaches: through harvest of metadata (i.e. the [...]
Kicking-off iCoper
I and my collegue, Peter Vinnervik , are at the kick-off meting for the iCoper project in Wien. The project spans 30 month and has the potential of becoming one of the most interesting EU-projects that I have participated in. This is in the abstract for the project:
Higher education institutions and continuing education centers face [...]
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