Category Archives: Announcement

Upcoming Event: Open Data and the Institutional Web

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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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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The Strategic Developer: How Local Developers Can Make A Difference

In a recent blog post about the value of local developers, Paul Walk introduced the idea of the Strategic Developer, which he describes as: “a developer who has both technical and domain experience, and who can contribute to strategic planning … 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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Documentation for Academic Developers

This is a guest post by Ana Nelson. As an open source software developer with an academic background, it was my very great pleasure to be introduced to the DevCSI project and the community it supports recently at Dev8D 2011. … 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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DevCSI Stakeholder Analysis – tell us your stories!

Evidence Base at Birmingham City University has been commissioned to undertake a stakeholder analysis exercise on behalf of DevCSI. This stakeholder analysis work will be extremely important to help inform the future development of DevCSI. As part of this work … Continue reading

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We have a winner! Developer Challenge at Open Repositories 2010 (Madrid)

The DevCSI project is pleased to announce that we have a winner for the this year’s DevCSI organised Developer Challenge at Open Repositories 2010 (Madrid). Congratulations to Richard Davis and Rory McNicholl from the University of London Computer Centre. Rory … Continue reading

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Developer Challenge @ Open Repositories 2010 Madrid – Are You Entering?

There is just over a week to go before Open Repositories 2010 in Madrid, are you going? If you are, are you entering for the “Developer Challenge’? Remember you don’t have to be a developer to be involved. We want … Continue reading

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