Shuffl – Interview: Graham Klyne

Sep 5, 2009 by milly-shaw

Graham Klyne, Computing Officer at Oxford University, talks about how Shuffl, a way of mindmapping real data as hypercards on the web.What is Shuffl?Shuffl helps researchers to capture and organise their experimental data for visualisation, sharing with colleagues and web publication – all without having to think up front about how to organise it all. It gives a card-based metaphor inspired by uses of real index cards.What problems/issues is Shuffl tackling?It addresses the issue of loss of researtch data. It’s also loose way of organising agile projects.How would you like other software developers and users to get involved in what you are doing?It’s openly hosted at Google Code, including all the project plans. We’re trying to build a communtiy around it.What developer communities have you been involved in and if none, why not?The JISC developer community and semantic web software communities. Also other developers at Oxford.What is the coolest or most exciting thing in educational software development?Shuffl of course! It aims to create a framework to deal with all sorts of information handling tasks and transfer them to a web environment.