- ShareGeo
31 Dec 2008The aim of the ShareGeo project was to integrate a geospatial data sharing facility within the EDINA Digimap Collections suite of services.
- Integration of Technology into Institutional Strategies Study
31 Dec 2008This study was commissioned by the JISC in collaboration with the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education (LFHE) to assess current awareness, practice and issues relating to the integration of...
- Improving the Evidence Base in Support of Sharing Learning Materials
31 Dec 2008This report aims to articulate the advantages and imperatives for sharing learning resources using evidence from the UK and elsewhere.
- FE & HE roles, competencies & relationships in support of a high level domain architecture map
31 Dec 2008This project undertook a landscape study to identify, map and classify roles, competencies and relationships of major actors in each of the high level domain areas identified as part of the...
- Integration of technology into institutional strategies
31 Dec 2008This study was commissioned to assess current awareness, practice and issues relating to the integration of technology into institutional strategies in UK higher education.
- e-Portfolios in successful HE admissions
22 Dec 2008This project implemented the integration of an e-Portfolio system in the UCAS-based Higher Education admissions process, as an example of the ‘thin ePortfolio model’ recommended by the ePortfolio for...
- The e-Revolution and Post-Compulsory Education: Using e-business models to deliver quality education
19 Dec 2008The best practices of e-business are revolutionising not just technology itself but the whole process through which services are provided; and from which important lessons can be learnt by...
- Outsourcing Email and Data Storage briefing papers
12 Dec 2008These briefing papers cover what it means to outsource email and data storage and the issues that institutions should consider if they wish to travel down this road. Choose from the extended version,...
- Outsourcing Email and Data Storage Case Studies
12 Dec 2008The provision of email and data storage to students within further and higher education institutions has long been a core part of many an institution’s IT strategy. With more institutions examining...
- Review of Open ID
09 Dec 2008The primary aim of the Review of OpenID project was to produce a report to allow decision-makers to understand OpenID’s security properties in order to perform risk assessment of their envisaged use...
- Users, new technologies and emerging practices: Users and Innovation programme update
03 Dec 2008The Users and Innovation programme has been integral to JISC’s activity in Web 2.0-centred innovation.
Focussing on how the user interacts with continuously and rapidly changing emergent...
- ALTC - Users and Innovation Project Presentations
02 Dec 2008This publication showcases nine projects from the JISC Users and Innovation Programme which presented papers at the 15th annual
- Identifying the Benefits of Curating & Sharing Research Data
30 Nov 2008It is becoming increasingly clear that effective and efficient management and reuse of research data will be a key component in the UK knowledge economy in years to come, essential for the efficient...
- Comparative Study of International Approaches to Enabling the Sharing of Research Data
30 Nov 2008JISC has commissioned this study to survey the different national agendas that are addressing variant infrastructure models, to inform developments within the UK and for facilitating an...
- Options Review of Ways Institutional & Subject Repositories can Productively Interact
30 Nov 2008This report was commissioned by JISC to produce a set of practical recommendations for steps that can be taken to improve the interactions between institutional and subject repositories in the UK....
- JISC Inform 23
24 Nov 2008In issue 23 of the new look JISC Inform: Jon Snow celebrates the launch of NewsFilm Online, a new service which gives free access to 100 years of news clips from ITN for teaching, learning and...
- Successful Scenario Planning
19 Nov 2008In 2007, JISC contracted CIBIT (www.cibit.com) to develop a scenario toolkit based on their existing work across European business, adding an education and more specifically IT perspective to their...
- Shared Services in UK Further and Higher Education
13 Nov 2008This briefing paper is based on the findings of the first three of Duke & Jordan’s reports from the JISC Study of Shared Services in UK Further and Higher Education published in April 2008.
- Investigation into the Feasibility of a Cross-Jurisdiction Common Access Management Federation Agreement
13 Nov 2008This is the final report of the JISC Legal investigation into the feasibility of a cross-jurisdiction common access management federation agreement.
- Serious Virtual Worlds report
03 Nov 2008This report provides a scoping study of the use of virtual worlds to support learning and training. The report includes a review of the field and case study examples. The report also provides...
- Study on identity management for lifelong learning in UK higher and further education
01 Nov 2008The JISC commissioned a study to describe current practice and envision future processes in identity management for lifelong learning in UK higher and further education; and to map the differences...
- Blooming QCF-QMT (Credit Qualification Framework – Question Meta Tags)
01 Nov 2008Learning programmes and descriptors are defined at specific SQCF / QCF levels. Assessments are created to address whether learning, at these levels, has been achieved. However, generally assessments...
- Preservation of Web Resources Handbook
31 Oct 2008One of the goals of the Preservation of Web Resources Handbook is to make current trends in digital preservation meaningful and relevant to information professionals with the day-to-day...
- Digital Preservation Policies Study
30 Oct 2008A major business driver in all universities and colleges over the past decade has been harnessing digital content and electronic services and the undoubted benefits in terms of flexibility and...
- MetaTools - Investigating Metadata Generation Tools
30 Oct 2008Automatic metadata generation has sometimes been posited as a solution to the ‘metadata bottleneck’ that repositories and portals are facing as they struggle to provide resource discovery metadata...
- Lirolem. A Virtual Studio/Institutional Repository for the University of Lincoln
27 Oct 2008The primary aim of the Lirolem project was initially to build a repository capable of handling the material that was generated by the students of the Lincoln School of Architecture, with a view to...
- Developing personalisation for the Information Environment
16 Oct 2008This study has investigated how the JISC Information Environment (IE) may make use (or should be developed to make use) of adaptive personalisation to enhance the user experience. It has specifically...
- Exchanging course-related information - Greater Manchester strategic alliance
10 Oct 2008The background of this mini-project lies in a JISC initiative to establish a specification supporting the exchange of course related information. This mini-projects broad aim was to implement and...
- JISC Attitudinal Survey 2008: Head and Senior Learning and Librarian Staff
09 Oct 2008An annual survey conducted on behalf of JISC by the JISC Monitoring Unit at the University of Kent, shows that senior academic librarians believe that managing and promoting e-Resources and e-Content...
- Third Party Providers of Federated Access Management Solutions: Guide for Institutions
09 Oct 2008The briefing aims to provide more information about some third party providers of access management solutions that support institutions when they either become a full member of the UK federation,...
- Benefits of investment in ICT landscape study
03 Oct 2008This project has considered different types of ICT investment within the FE and HE sectors, categorised as infrastructure investments, teaching and learning technologies investments and...
- Provision of JISC-funded places on the Netskills workshop: Federated Access Management - Core Skills for Identity
30 Sep 2008In June 2007 JISC funded Netskills to develop and deliver a workshop to help the community explore and assess the core technical skills required to deploy federated access management technology at...
- Submission, preservation & exposure of Chemistry teaching & research data from theses
30 Sep 2008The aim of this project was to investigate the needs of the academic chemistry research community with respect to how data associated with theses may best be managed and to facilitate routine and...
- Usage Statistics Review
26 Sep 2008The JISC Usage Statistics Review Project aimed to formulate a fundamental scheme for repository log files and to propose a standard for their aggregation to provide meaningful and comparable...
- SIMulated Professional Learning Environment (SIMPLE)
23 Sep 2008The SIMPLE project in general terms aimed to prove that simulations can effectively enhance learning across a range of disciplines, professions and institutions. It also set out to investigate the...
- National Grid Service
15 Sep 2008The National Grid Service (NGS), funded by JISC and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), was created in October 2003 and entered full production in September 2004. It is...
- National Centre for Text Mining: Introduction to Tools for Researchers
15 Sep 2008With an overwhelming amount of knowledge recorded in texts, it has become imperative to use automated techniques that can identify, extract, manage, integrate and exploit this knowledge for research...
- Enterprise architectures: Introduction (version 1)
15 Sep 2008Enterprise Architecture (EA) is about enabling organisations to adapt to change by defining, in a generic way, how their business processes work in tandem with their Information and Communications...
- e-Assessment: An Overview of JISC Activities
15 Sep 2008JISC recognised the importance of e-assessment for the UK education and research community as long ago as the late 1990s as part of the groundbreaking work on Managed Learning Environments and on...
- Virtual Research Environments: VRE Programme Phases 2 & 3
15 Sep 2008This booklet outlines the present (second) phase of the JISC Virtual Research Environment programme and plans for the third phase.
- Text Mining
15 Sep 2008The burgeoning of published text means that even the most avid reader cannot hope to keep up with all the reading in a field, let alone adjacent fields. Nuggets of insight or new knowledge are at...
- Next Generation Environments: Papers from the Users & Innovation Programme Conference 2008
15 Sep 2008The 2008 conference and the papers in this collection reflect JISC’s commitment, in partnership with the HE sector, to make best use of new and emergent technologies, including ‘Web 2.0’ social...
- Repository interface for overlaid journal archives
10 Sep 2008This project worked with the Astrophysics community to investigate aspects of overlay journals. For the purposes of the project, an overlay journal was defined as a quality-assured journal whose...
- Effective Practice with e-Portfolios
08 Sep 2008Effective Practice with e-Portfolios uses the outcomes of recent significant projects and examples from current practice to explore how e-portfolios can add value to personalised and reflective...
- Using Repositories & e-Portfolio Tools to Submit an Application for Employment
03 Sep 2008This project explored the scenario of an archaeology academic in a UK Higher Education institution (HEI), wishing to apply
for a job at another HEI.
- Student lifecycle relationship management
31 Aug 2008This study investigated the ways in which institutions manage their relationships with students, to provide a picture of the current landscape of the different strands of activities, approaches and...
- Landscape Study of Student Lifecycle Relationship Management
31 Aug 2008This study, commissioned by the JISC Organisational Support Committee (JOS), has investigated the ways in which institutions manage their relationships with students, to provide a picture of the...
- Lifecycle information for e-literature 2
22 Aug 2008The first phase of Lifecycle Information for e-Literature (LIFE) made a major contribution to understanding the long-term costs of digital preservation; an essential step in helping institutions plan...
- Digital Libraries for Global Distributed Innovative Design
13 Aug 2008The central goal of the Digital Libraries for Global Distributed Innovative Design (DIDET) project was to enhance student learning opportunities by enabling them to partake in global, team based...
- CETIS Support Project (Design for Learning)
08 Aug 2008CETIS’ background in programme and project support...