JISCPress – Expert Talk – Video: Joss Winn – Day 1

devcsi-team — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:01:17 +0000

Expert talk given by Joss Winn about JISCPress on Day 1 of the event.

The talk is in two clips.

Clip 1

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Clip 2

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JISCPess – Video: Joss Winn – Pitch 4 – Day 2

devcsi-team — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:53:21 +0000

This project will deliver a demonstrator prototype publishing platform for the JISC funding call and dissemination process using WordPress Multi-User.

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JISCPress – Interview: Joss Winn and Alex Bilbie

michelle-pauli — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:34:03 +0000

Joss Winn, University of Lincoln technology officer, and Alex Bilbie, a student at the University of Lincoln, explain how JISCPress will open up documents in closed formatsWhat is JISCPress?It allows communities to discuss, comment and annotate documents in detail. It is also a platform for document publication and the publication of multiple documents, to allow for detailed discovery and relationships to be made between documents. The platform that brings them together allows for relationships to be made and for people to discover documents based on the document they are reading. It’s like in Gmail when you see contextual adverts alongside the emails. We will provide those contextual adverts for documents using term extraction (Yahoo) and semantic tagging (Reuters Open Calais service). We’re doing this in partnership with Tony Hurst at the OU, and Eddie Tejeda in San Francisco. He was the original developer of the WP plug in we’re developing.What problems/issues is JISCPress tackling?For JISC, the issue is that the JISC funding calls are published as PDF and Word documents which are technically closed formats and this is solving that one problem in that we’re making documents published openly on the web in open formats. But, just as important, by doing that we can leverage the Web 2.0 environment and allow communities to engage with the text collaboratively rather than downloading to their desk and reading it in isolation. People can ask questions at the paragraph level and get detailed analysis and questioning and critiquing of the text and have threaded discussions around the whole paragraph. So it could provide a virtual town meeting for their funding calls – ample opportunity to ask detailed questions and post responses online. We’re also proposing that it’s not just for funding calls but also a document store for finished project reports so that it becomes a store for project research output and we can show relationships between the calls, the bids and the final reports on the same platform.How would you like other software developers and users to get involved in what you are doing?Really, we need documents on there so that we can test the relationships and algorithms – that would be a big help for us. One or two institutions have suggested that they might do that so we’d like anyone to take the time to try it out. From the funders point of view, they are funding a WordPress-based project and WordPress is an established community they are contributing to and there is a community who could potentially get involved already – we don’t have to build the community from scratch. We will release the plug ins back into the community – they will be generic enough to be used by other people. We want to show the value of the project to the existing WordPress community, which is huge.What developer communities have you been involved in and if none, why not?WordPress! A lot of the project is reusing and carefully selecting existing work in the WP community. 5%-10% of the finished code will be original and we are reusing 95%. We have built on Dan Grossman’s work.What is the coolest or most exciting thing in educational software development?Alex: really interested in anything that involves geo-location and it has been useful to meet a couple of people here who are doing campus-based geo-tagging.Joss: what I’ve learnt through this project is that since the beginning of the web there have been efforts to provide proper transparent citations – transclusion – and never been done peoperly or implemented widely and we’re tying to do a version of it here and that really interests me. We won’t solve it but we’ll show an example of how it could work.

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JISCPress – Expert Talk – Video: Joss Winn – Day 1

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JISCPress – Interview: Joss Winn and Alex Bilbie