Author Archives: Mahendra Mahey

Digital Repositories Specialist – Position Available

Posted on behalf my colleague Richard Davis of the University of London Computer Centre *UNIVERSITY OF LONDON* *Digital Repositories Specialist* *Fixed term for 18 months* We are looking for a suitably experienced individual to join our Digital Archives & Repositories Team. … Continue reading

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Free Life Science/Open Research Reports Hack Days – London 6-7 December 2011

Between Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th of December, DevCSI will be running ‘Life Science Hackdays’ in London, the event is also being referred to ‘Open Research Reports Hackathon’, see http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/events/devcsi/life-sciences-hackdays/index.html . The event is being organized by: – DevCSI – Semantic Web Applications and … Continue reading

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Dev8D 2012 Bookings Now Open

DevCSI is proud to announce that we will be organising the fourth JISC-funded Dev8D in 2012. Remember this… This video shows just one of the great projects to come out of Dev8D 2011. We need YOU to make Dev8D 2012 … Continue reading

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Free IMPACT/myGrid Hackathon

Free IMPACT/myGrid Hackathon Are you interested in scientific workflows? Would you like to see how scientific workflows can be used in digitisation and related fields? Would you like to spend a couple of days looking at use cases and having … Continue reading

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Celebrate Liberation – A worldwide competition for open software developers & open data

UK Discovery and the DevCSI are running a global Developer Competition throughout July 2011 to build open source software applications / tools, using at least one of our 10 open data sources collected from libraries, museums and archives. Enter simply … Continue reading

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Mustering

By Peter Sefton and Mahendra Mahey Pitching for the DevCSI Developer Challenge at Open Repositories 11 On the first day of pre-conference meetings at Open Repositories 2011 we started promoting the DevCSI Developer Challenge. We visited all of the meetings we … Continue reading

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DevCSI Developer Challenge OR11 – The Judges!

Interviews with some of the Developer Challenge Judges We have the definitive list of judges for the DevCSI Developer Challenge at Open Repositories 11, they are: Balviar Notay (JISC and Chair of Judges) Wolfram Horstmann (Bielefeld University, Germany) Dorthea Salo … Continue reading

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Dev Challenge @OR11

The DevCSI project is proud to announce that it is organising the Open Repositories Developer Challenge 2011 at the Sixth International Conference on Open Repositories in Austin, Texas - Open Repositories 2011 (#or11dev #devcsi). The Challenge is: Show us the future of repositories There … Continue reading

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A view from the Collaborations Workshop – Rob Allan (DevCSI supported Developer)

Posted on behalf of Rob Allan The DevCSI project sponsored a number of key developers to attend the Collaborations Workshop. We hear from one of these developers, Rob Allan (pictured right), who talks about his experience of the workshop. I … Continue reading

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DevCSI supported places for Collaborations Workshop – we have our five!

A while ago, DevCSI partnered with the Software Sustainability Institute to provide free registration and help with expenses for a number of key developers to attend the Collaborations Workshop in Edinburgh, at the e-science Institute, on the 3-4 March, 2011.  This … Continue reading

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