Jisc Inform highlights digitisation and the e-Framework
The summer issue of Jisc Inform is published today. Highlighting a newly-launched medical archive which will house some 3 million digitised pages of historically significant US and UK medical journals, the issue also carries a special feature – including an explanatory diagram - on the e-Framework, an international programme which is looking to establish new and more flexible ways in which IT systems can be deployed and used.
With international collaboration at the heart of both, the articles give the context to the programmes, the views of experts in the field, and offers analysis of how they will impact on UK education and research.
Among the other articles featured in the new issue are: an opinion piece by University of Hertfordshire lecturer Mark Russell on blended learning; a look at how an international e-Science collaboration is building a ‘virtual heart’ to enable international researchers to simulate the workings of the human heart; information about how a new roaming service is enabling visitors to other institutions to access their own networks; how Jisc-funded services TechDis and the Regional Support Centres are supporting institutions in the use of assistive technologies; a look at the newly-launched Intute service, and more.
In addition, an extended article entitled ‘The future of the web’ looks at how interactive technologies such as blogs and wikis are beginning to be used in education and research, and goes on to suggest how next-generation technologies – such as the Semantic Web – are soon to emerge to transform our ways of understanding – and using – the web.
Read Jisc Inform 14, where you can also download a PDF version of the publication.
Print copies of Inform are being distributed to all colleges and universities. However, if you would like further print copies of the new Inform, please write to: publications@jisc.ac.uk