Language Box - Some Cool Stuff To Do With EPrints

4th International Conference on Open RepositoriesThis presentation was part of the session : EPrints User Groups PresentationsLanguage Box is a teaching and learning repository for language teachers to store and manage their teaching materials

The University and How We Interact With It

This is a presentation I put together to get students thinking about their digital university experience. The resulting discussions will be used to inform a survey sent out to all students to find out what parts of the digital university experience are important to them

Using EPrints to Understand Research / The Semantics of Reading Lists

The department of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton has about two hundred research staff. Often staff members will have overlapping research areas without knowing. It is useful to discover what the people around you working on and to identify those with similar research intrests so that ideas can be shared. Electronics and computer science are fields which evolve rapidly, therefore a researcher's interests change or drift. This means that a researcher' list of interests 6 months ago may be quite different to their research interests now. Rather than encouraging researchers to constantly update their own interests, this information could be derived automatically to determine interests based on their reading material

Using EPrints to Understand Research / The Semantics of Reading Lists

The department of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton has about two hundred research staff. Often staff members will have overlapping research areas without knowing. It is useful to discover what the people around you working on and to identify those with similar research intrests so that ideas can be shared. Electronics and computer science are fields which evolve rapidly, therefore a researcher's interests change or drift. This means that a researcher' list of interests 6 months ago may be quite different to their research interests now. Rather than encouraging researchers to constantly update their own interests, this information could be derived automatically to determine interests based on their reading material

Vim - The what, the why and the how

An introduction to Vim and why I use it. This resource is the precursor to a technical walk through and code along using vim. During the talk I handed round a cheat sheet for vim which can be found at http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/vimcheat.html You can find full documentation and a lot more indepth examples in the vim documentation: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/help.htm

Local Government Law in Virginia, 1870-1970

Virginia has never faced more pressing local problems. Both the population and the economy have grown so rapidly in the last several decades that the traditional system of local government has been strained and perhaps even rendered obsolete. This system was established when Virginia was a predominantly rural and agricultural state. But after approximately three centuries without radical change, it has suddenly been threatened by urbanization. Simply put, it was not designed to operate in a predominantly urban and industrial setting and has proven unequal to the task of coping with the problems which attend urbanization

Perform bicubic pixel resampling on images

This contains some images. Using photoshop I would like students to resize images using a bicubic filter

Aggregated Erevnametrics: bringing together alt-metrics through Research Objects

This position paper examines the spectrum of artefacts that contribute to the research process, in the context of bibliometrics and erevnametrics. We examine how existing research evaluation techniques could be enhanced with richer information about the research process and research outputs

Towards an institutional PLE

PLEs in their broader sense (the ad-hoc, serendipitous and potentially chaotic set of tools that learners bring to their learning) are increasingly important for learners in the context of formal study. In this paper we outline the approach that we are taking at the University of Southampton in redesigning our teaching and learning infrastructure into an Institutional PLE. We do not see this term as an oxymoron. We define an Institutional PLE as an environment that provides a personalised interface to University data and services and at the same time exposes that data and services to a student’s personal tools. Our goal is to provide a digital platform that can cope with an evolving learning and teaching environment, as well as support the social and community aspects of the institution