by Brian Kelly | Jul 4, 2014 | Events, jiscobs
Two International Conferences: SAOIM 2014 and ELAG 2014 In June I gave talks and facilitated workshop sessions at two international conferences: SAOIM 2014, the 12th Biennial Southern African Online Information Meeting which was held in Pretoria on 3-6 June and ELAG...
by Brian Kelly | Dec 20, 2013 | jiscobs
The Jisc has recently announced a job vacancy for a Futurologist. The details provided on the Jisc web site are worth publishing in full: This role will forecast long term future events, conditions, or developments in technology and analytics that will allow Jisc to...
by Brian Kelly | Oct 22, 2013 | jiscobs
Techniques For Detecting Trends Last week Tony Hirst and I facilitated a 1-day workshop at the ILI 2013 conferences which described approaches for detecting trends which could be used to help institutions exploit emerging technologies in a timely fashion, whilst...
by Brian Kelly | Sep 20, 2013 | jiscobs, library2.0
Back in August in a post entitled Wanted For The ODI! I provided a response to a challenge to “use whatever (legal) means you have at your disposal to reach our Head of Research [ at the Open Data Institute], Tom Heath, and convince him that your CV is worth...
by Brian Kelly | Sep 17, 2012 | Data, jiscobs
The Importance of Data This year has been a great year for sport, especially in London. But as well as the success of the London Olympics and the Paralympics we have also seen a growth in interest in data, which has gone beyond ‘data scientists’ and is now...
by Brian Kelly | Aug 22, 2012 | jiscobs
On Monday 20 August 2012 I saw a tweet from Joss Winn which provided a link to a blog post about a survey of OpenStack in academia. From the OpenStack Web site we find that “OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists...
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