Author Archives: Kirsty Pitkin

Intelligent Buildings and Smart Estates

Posted on 23/11/2011 by Kirsty Pitkin

On Tuesday 29th November, Mahendra Mahey will be giving a presentation at the JISC Intelligent Buildings and Smart Estates workshop, together with Daniel Curtis from the University of Oxford. The event is designed to bring together estates managers and ICT … Continue reading →

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DevXS Student Developer Marathon

Posted on 21/11/2011 by Kirsty Pitkin

DevCSI recently collaborated with the University of Lincoln’s Student as Producer project to host the extremely successful DevXS student hackathon, which took place from Friday 11th – Sunday 13th November at the aptly named Engine Shed at the University of … Continue reading →

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Local Developer Success Story: University of Lincoln

Posted on 29/09/2011 by Kirsty Pitkin

Student developers demonstrate how deep integration with the rest of the university is one of the real benefits of a local developer. In this DevCSI case study, Michelle Pauli interviews Joss Winn and Alex Bilbie to find out more about … Continue reading →

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Local Developer Success Story: MidKent College

Posted on 26/09/2011 by Kirsty Pitkin

Local developers adapt a Moodle Module to create an integrated personal development planning solution relevant to staff, students and managers. In this DevCSI case study, Jane Plenderlith investigates a local developer success story from MidKent College, exploring how an enthusiasm … Continue reading →

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Local Developer Success Story: The South-West Wales HE Partnership

Posted on 09/09/2011 by Kirsty Pitkin

In this DevCSI case study, Jane Plenderlith explores a local developer success story from South West Wales, where developers helped to customise an open source solution to meet the key requirements of a group of institutions working together to share … Continue reading →

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Open Data Hackday

Posted on 22/08/2011 by Kirsty Pitkin

DevCSI’s Open Data Hackday brought together web managers, developers and domain experts ahead of the Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW). The event was designed to provide an opportunity to discuss the issues and explore how developers and web managers could … Continue reading →

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The Strategic Developer at IWMW11

Posted on 01/08/2011 by Kirsty Pitkin

Last week saw the 15th Institutional Web Management workshop, which was held at the University of Reading. DevCSI ran an open data workshop as an extension of the event and Mike Nolan fed back on behalf of the group during … Continue reading →

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OR11 Developer Challenge Videos

Posted on 29/07/2011 by Kirsty Pitkin

Here are the long awaited videos showing the entries for the DevCSI Developer Challenge at OR11. The entrants were: Bram Luyten from Mire presenting @mire work to show the future of metadata editing in repositories. View this video on Vimeo. … Continue reading →

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Upcoming Event: Open Data and the Institutional Web

Posted on 18/07/2011 by Kirsty Pitkin

We are pleased to be offering a FREE 2 day workshop focussing on surfacing, using and reusing institutional data. This will be held at the University of Reading on Monday 25th July, ahead of the Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW … Continue reading →

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Accessibility Hack Days

Posted on 07/07/2011 by Kirsty Pitkin

Our recent Accessibility Hack Days in Birmingham brought together developers, user experience designers, accessibility specialists and first hand users of assistive technologies with both visible and invisible disabilities. The event aimed to generate ideas and discussion about the issues involved … Continue reading →

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