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

Posted on 24/11/2011 by Mahendra Mahey

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

Posted on 06/07/2011 by Mahendra Mahey

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

Posted on 07/06/2011 by Mahendra Mahey

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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Supporting Developer Success: The List8D Story

Posted on 18/05/2011 by Kirsty Pitkin

“We only hear from our users when things go wrong…” is a common complaint from software developers. But what happens when a team of higher education developers hear when things go right? The result is not just happier, more productive … Continue reading →

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The Strategic Developer: How Local Developers Can Make A Difference

Posted on 17/05/2011 by Kirsty Pitkin

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

Posted on 13/05/2011 by Mahendra Mahey

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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OER Hack Day

Posted on 18/04/2011 by Kirsty Pitkin

The OER Hack Day event was jointly organised by JISC CETIS and DevCSI. Participants came from a variety of backgrounds and levels of technical expertise, and included academics, learning technologists, repository managers, developers, and librarians from UK institutions such as … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 14/03/2011 by Mahendra Mahey

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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