Author archives: Andrew McGregor

Andrew McGregor

About Andrew McGregor

My Staff Profile
I am a Programme Manager in the Digital Infrastructure team. I work with projects that involve digital repositories, the Information Environment, shared infrastructure services, discovery to delivery and evaluation.

Should universities care about APIs?

So why should universities devote effort to caring about application programming interfaces (APIs)? I work at Jisc as a programme manager and have recently been involved in work that could provide some answers as to the benefits of APIs.

JISC and crowdfunding

What links an e-paper watch, a statue of RoboCop and an open alternative to Facebook? The answer is that all of these ideas have been funded via the crowdfunding site Kickstarter. Crowdfunding is an exciting new approach where individuals can … Read more

What is activity data and why is it useful?

Activity data is big business. We see it in the recommendations we get every time we look at something on Amazon, we see its importance every time we get asked if we have a club/nectar/loyalty card when we buy something … Read more

Developers value to higher education

There is a great William Gibson quote, ‘The future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed.’ I believe that working with developers to share experiences, ideas and expertise will help distribute those slices of the future that are … Read more

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