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19th century pamphlets online
This project will provide online access to the most significant collections of 19th century pamphlets held in UK research libraries. Digitising around 30,000 paper copy pamphlets, which focus on the political, economic and social issues that fuelled the great Parliamentary debates and controversies of the 19th century.
3D Visualisation Network in the Arts (3DVisA)
3DVisA promotes, enhances and extends the knowledge, understanding and opportunities enabled by digital 3D visualisation to research and pedagogy in the Arts and Humanities.
A digital library of core e-resources on Ireland
The digitisation of 100 key journals, 205 monographs and 2,500 manuscript pages from core Irish Studies collections makes this comprehensive, multi-disciplinary digital library the first point of contact for scholars and students seeking a convenient and comprehensive one stop shop for e-resources relating to Ireland.
A study of effective evaluation models and practices for technology supported physical learning spaces
This study will investigate effective evaluation models and practices for technology supported physical learning spaces. It will identify and review the methods and tools currently used to evaluate the contribution that technology supported learning spaces make to learning and teaching. The outcomes of the study will include recommendations and guidelines for the community and will also be incorporated into the Designing Learning Spaces infoKit.
A study of the effective use of social software to support student learning and engagement
This study will investigate the effective use of social software by Further and Higher Education in the UK to support student learning and engagement. The main deliverables of the study will be 8-12 case studies and a final report with recommendations, intended to inform staff delivering higher education to students in Higher Education institutions or Further Education Colleges and the JISC executive.
Academic Writing Empowered by Socially Mediated Online Environments (AWESOME) Dissertation Environment
Our project adopts a user-centred methodology, actively engaging users (students, lecturers, staff developers, and student support) in the design, development, and evaluation of the AWESOME-Dissertation environment (ADE). ADE focuses on undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations and utilises a pedagogy-led approach to demonstrate how next generation emergent technologies in social media can successfully develop student expertise in academic writing.
AGAST (Advanced Grid Authorisation through Semantic Technologies)
The AGAST project will investigate the extent to which semantic technologies will provide a flexible mechanism for easily-delegated access control. We will confront our existing prototype with a wide variety of challenging and realistic use-cases, drawn from the PIs’ engagement with current projects
AIDA
AIDA will create a self-assessment tool for describing institutional readiness and capabilities for digital preservation. The tool will take into account different states of institutional preparedness when recommending options or highlighting threats to assets.
AIR (Automated Archiving for an Institutional Repository)
The aim of the project is to develop a technology to automate the process of depositing large amounts of citation data in an institutional database. The technology will rely on the state-of-the-art methods for Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing to discover citation data of university staff on the Web. Carried out jointly by ILP and LIS of the University of Wolverhampton, the project is expected to stimulate growth of "Wolverhampton Intellectual Repository and E-theses" and potentially similar repositories in other organisation.
Alternate Reality Games for Orientation, Socialisation and Induction (ARGOSI)
Student retention is a key issue in Higher Education at the present time, and the quality of the induction process has been identified as a factor that can affect retention. Current models of induction do not always meet student needs, in particular, the increasing diversity of the student population is not necessarily reflected in induction period activities. The ARGOSI project will use an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) to support the traditional student induction process, and aims to provide an engaging and purposeful alternative to the established methods of introducing students to university life.

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