Podcasts

For Angela Beesley, wikis are ideal tools in education since they enable people to ‘work together and share ideas.’ Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation and a champion for the power of wikis in encouraging collaboration in a range of contexts, she says wikis allow ‘a knowledge base to be built up’ a

Jisc and the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) recently announced that they would be awarding transatlantic grants to foster collaborative digitisation projects between the UK and the US.

The e-Framework for Education and Research is an international initiative that provides information to institutions on investing in and using information technology infrastructure.

It was announced today that international library organisation OCLC is to be the main sponsor of the Jisc Conference 2008 next month.Established more than 40 years ago and now the largest library-based cooperative in the world, OCLC develops products and services for the library community, under

One of the projects in Jisc's digitisation programme, the Welsh Journals project is set to add to a growing body of materials dedicated to Welsh, culture, history and language.

 

 

The Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) is a three year Jisc-funded initiative committed to delivering a co-ordinated framework of principles and best practice for the provision of online e-content for UK citizens.

A petition organised by Jisc, European partners and SPARC Europe attracted nearly 25,000 signatures in 2007, including a number of Nobel Prize winners, as well as more than 800 education and research organisations.

For the first time last year Jisc sponsored one of the Times Higher Awards - for Outstanding ICT Initiative of the Year. In this podcast for Inform Plus, Philip Pothen meets the winners of the award and discovers why the judges found their initiative quite so innovative and imaginative.