Demos at JISC conference 2008

 

Times Higher Education Awards stand

Location Main foyer area

Winner School of Dentistry, Birmingham UK

Giles Perryer and Damien Walmsley, School of Dentistry, University of Birmingham

Presentation and exhibition stand sponsored by the THE featuring the 2007 winner and shortlisters of the JISC sponsored THE Award.

Shortlisters
Media Zoo, Leicester University (Matthew Wheeler, Keeper)
OpenLearn, The Open University (Professor Andy Lane, Director & Laura Dewis, Communications Manager)
CETL ALiC, University of Durham (Dr Elizabeth Burd, Director)
Aston University (Peter Reddy)

 

Open Source demo stand (in association with OSS Watch)

Location Hall 3, opposite main JISC stand

10.45 – 11.15 WebPA Project
Nicola Wilkinson (e-Learning Systems Developer) & Steve Loddington, (Research Associate)
WebPA is an online peer assessment system, or more specifically, a peer moderated marking system. The demo will introduce you to the tutors work flow for creating and running an assessment. Followed by taking a look at the student perspective, before returning to the tutors part of the system and marking the assessment.
12.15 – 12.45 myExperiment
David De Roure (Professor) PI and Project Manager of myExperiment
myExperiment makes it really easy for the researchers to contribute to a pool of scientific workflows, build communities and form relationships. It supports the individual scientist on their personal projects, forming a distributed community with scientists elsewhere - enabling them to share, reuse and repurpose workflows, reduce time-to-experiment, share expertise and avoid reinvention.
12.45 – 13.15 Recycle Bridge: an easy to use way of consuming web applications within a portal framework
Dr Mat Grove (Research Fellow) VERA Project, University of Reading
Rather than reengineering existing web applications, which have considerable development effort and are used by huge number of users, the Recycle Bridge is able to consume existing complex web-based applications (e.g WordPress and MediaWiki) with minimal effort within a portal framework.
13.15 – 13.30 Simal
Gabriel Hanganu and Ramón Casero
Simal is a framework for building registries of software development projects that allow central access to critical project information such as mailing lists, version control systems and licensing information. Unlike other registries data is not centrally located but is held and maintained by the projects themselves. This results in a far more accurate registry system.
14.30 – 15.00 ioNetworkNode and CourseExchange
Selwyn Lloyd (Founder Engineer) and David Hunter (Software Architect)

ioNetworkNodes orchestrate relationships and interoperability services; open standards data (learner and course information) web services,  user indexes.  One or more organisations may interoperate. CourseExchangeIoNodes are installed on ioNetworkNodes. A CourseExchangeHub hosts course-ads (xcri-cap) for one or more CourseExchangeAgents to publish to and one or more CourseExchangeIoPortals to aggregate.

 

JISC-funded Projects demo stands

Location Main foyer area
Stand A

09:30 - 10.00 Virtual Research Environment for Archaeology project (VERA)
The Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology project aims to produce a fully-fledged virtual research environment for the archaeological community. It will address user needs, enhancing the means of efficiently documenting archaeological excavation and its associated finds, and create a suitable Web portal that provides enhanced tools for the user community.
10.45-11.15 Collaborative Research Events on the Web (CREW)
The CREW project captures information relating to research events (such as conferences), using a variety of approaches including social software, semantic technologies and audio-visual recording tools. The aim is to allow presentations to be used as a persistent research resource to maximise the return of investment in collaborative events. This demonstration will show how the VRE works in practice.
12.20-12.50 Phoebe Pedagogic Planner tool
Phoebe is an online pedagogic planner tool: i.e. a purpose-built application that guides teachers through the process of designing courses and/or individual learning sessions. This demonstration will show the extent to which it offers both flexible and guided paths through this process, and provides access to a wide range of models, case studies and examples of innovative learning designs.
12.50-13.30  Electronic theses in the UK (EThOSNet)
EThOSnet is a project to bring the UK to the forefront of international e-theses provision.This demonstration offers a start-to-finish run-through of the EThOS service, from initial request for thesis to eventual download to the user’s PC. There will be factsheets available and plenty of opportunity for questions about the service and the enhanced EThOS toolkit.
14.30-15.00 Resource Discovery for Researchers in e-Social Science (ReDReSS)
A demonstration of the services that the ReDReSS project provides to train and educate social science researchers in the benefits, new technologies and methodologies that e-social science has to offer.  This will include the Learning Space Catalogue which is a repository containing hundreds of e-Social Science/e-Science (multimedia) learning resources.

Stand B

10.45-11.15 Open Habitat
The Habitat project is piloting the use of multi-user virtual environments in the teaching of art & design and philosophy. This demo will show some video of an individual’s first experiences of an immersive environment, and take you on a tour of Habitat’s pilot space in Second Life.
12.20-12.50 3D Visualisation in the Arts (3DVisA) 
This demonstration will profile the activities and resources created by the UK visualisation network 3DVisA, including the Index of 3D projects It will also publicise the report on the Needs of 3D Visualisation Community, published by 3DVisA in 2007, and the forthcoming second workshop organised jointly with VizNet, to be held at the University of Loughborough on 7-9 May 2008
13.00-13.30 National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM)
A demonstration of two systems, Termine and KLEIO: TerMine is a terminological management system, integration of domain-independent term extraction and acronym recognition based on automatically constructed acronym dictionary from the whole MEDLINE; KLEIO is an advanced information retrieval system that offers textual and metadata searches with annotations across MEDLINE.
14.30-15.00 Automatic Summarisation for Systematic Reviews using Text Mining (ASSERT)
NaCTeM is leveraging the core technologies of biomedical text mining to the social science and media domains. Our demonstration will give an overview of these new tools including topic discovery and visualisation, summarisation and news exploration. We discuss how these components fit together to create a system for assisting systematic reviews in the ASSERT project.
 

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