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Fiona MacLellanFiona MacLellan is an Academic Librarian for the University of Northampton, with responsibility for the Schools of The Arts and Science and Technology. She has research interests in Reading Groups in a HE setting and referencing systems affecting reading comprehension and fluency.  Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "mobile", "research", "twitter", "university of northampton", "ebook", "bibliographic data", "augmented reality", "hashtag", "web resources", "qr code". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated November 2012 Read more ... |
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Amber ThomasAmber Thomas has led work on open educational resources and repositories such as Jorum. She has overseen JISC’s projects on the technical and IPR issues which surround putting resources online. Amber not only has experience and expertise of Higher Education but also of Further Education with experience gained with Becta as content officer of the National Grid for Learning and the Ferl Online Service that provided support on information and learning technology (ILT) in Further Education. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "repositories", "wikipedia", "vle", "jisc", "research", "search technology", "data", "software", "e-learning", "open access". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated October 2012 Read more ... |
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Wajeehah AayeshahWajeehah Aayeshah is a researcher in Media and Communication. She is currently examining the use of games in journalism education as a part of her PhD. Her research interests include: Media and Journalism Education, Alternate Reality Games, Education Technology and Social Development. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "research", "swinburne university of technology", "framework". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2012 Read more ... |
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Alice LauAlice is currently working as a research fellow in the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at the University of Glamorgan. She is responsible for research on assessment at Glamorgan and supports the implementation of the assessment policy. She seeks to make assessment a support for the student learning experience rather than simply a measure of it. Alice was heavily involved in the research for the Change Academy projects. She is currently working on a part-time PhD entitled ‘Assessment for Learning in Higher Education’. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "university of glamorgan", "higher education", "research", "jisc", "blackboard", "vle", "software", "internet explorer", "data", "dissemination". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2012 Read more ... |
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Gary BrewertonGary Brewerton is the Library Systems Manager at Loughborough University and is interested in library automation, information and communication technology, and open source development (e.g. LORLS). Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "api", "database", "xml", "data", "json", "loughborough university", "shibboleth", "perl", "javascript", "schema". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2012 Read more ... |
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Karen FitzgibbonKaren Fitzgibbon is currently the Deputy Head of the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at the University of Glamorgan. She was involved in the first phase of the Change Academy Project and became the project manager for the second phase of the Change Academy project 'Putting Assessment at the Heart of Learning'. She is also leading the Higher Education Academy First Year Experience Group which shares good practice on themed first-year student experience initiatives throughout institutions in Wales. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "university of glamorgan", "higher education", "research", "jisc", "blackboard", "vle", "software", "internet explorer", "data", "dissemination". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2012 Read more ... |
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Kate RobinsonKate Robinson is Head of Academic Services within the University of Bath Library. She is responsible for the subject teams, their teaching and collection development, the institutional repository and the Library's reader-facing services. Kate will be taking up the post of University Librarian in August 2012. Author profile last updated July 2012 Read more ... |
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Laurence LocktonLaurence Lockton has been Systems Librarian at the Library of the University of Bath since 2002. As well as the day-to-day administration of the Symphony library management system, he has been responsible for the implementation of systems for resource discovery and linking, remote access to electronic resources, campus cards and door access control, printing and photocopying, and numerous others. Previously he worked for Sirsi Limited, providing support, implementation and training for the Unicorn library management system. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "licence", "wiki", "browser", "university of bath", "cataloguing", "opera", "ejournal", "url", "data", "research". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2012 Read more ... |
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Lizz JenningsLizz Jennings joined the University of Bath Library as the Information Librarian for E-Resources in 2008 and chartered shortly afterwards. Her background has taken in workplace, public and prison libraries, but her current interests include usage statistics, wikis for e-resources and resource discovery. Lizz has recently achieved an MSc in Information Management from The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. She is also an active member of the CILIP Career Development Group, and currently chairs the CILIP South Western Division. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "licence", "wiki", "browser", "university of bath", "cataloguing", "opera", "ejournal", "url", "data", "research". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2012 Read more ... |
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Tertia CoetseeTertia Coetsee is a qualified librarian/ information specialist , and a full-time employee of the University of Pretoria, Jotello F. Soga Library, Faculty of Veterinary Science with 25 years of experience in academic libraries. She is the Information Specialist for : Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Paraclinical Studies: Pharmacology & Toxicology, the Pharmacovigilance Lab, the Phytomedicine Programme, Veterinary Pathology, Veterinary Public Health, the Biomedical Research Centre. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "research", "blackboard", "database", "refworks", "university of pretoria", "knowledge management", "data", "digital preservation", "bibliographic data", "privacy". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2012 Read more ... |
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Thom BuntingThom Bunting works on project management of JISC Observatory and Innovation Zone activities at the Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN as well as developing and managing ISC online resources. In his Web Manager role, Thom plans and creates data-driven Web sites and looks after existing sites related to UKOLN and some of its previous activities. Thom’s current interests include: content management technologies supporting consumption and production of dynamic datasets; automated generation of metadata from large collections of content; sharing of content and data across systems; visualisation tools capable of producing interactive, data-rich infographics. These interests build on Thom’s previous experience with leading-edge Web, digital TV, and mobile technology developments, within commercial and academic contexts. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "drupal", "content management", "data", "database", "open source", "taxonomy", "archives", "framework", "ibm", "wikipedia". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2012 Read more ... |
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Chris RusbridgeChris Rusbridge has been involved in innovation on the fringes of research university libraries for more than 15 years, first as Programme Director for the JISC Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), and more recently as Director of the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) in the UK. Chris has a particular interest in repositories and research data centres and services, and has expertise in digital preservation and data curation. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "elib", "digital preservation", "archives", "jisc", "research", "digital library", "preservation", "repositories", "software", "dcc". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2012 Read more ... |
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Brian WhalleyBrian Whalley has retired from formal education and research in HE but now spends time catching up on previous sins of omission in writing up his glaciology research and contributions to student use of computers in fieldwork. He is a co-investigator on an HEA-funded project on ‘Enhancing Fieldwork Learning’ and is also involved with developing metadata for fieldwork images and data. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "wikipedia", "research", "data", "ipad", "ebook", "search technology", "wiki", "apple", "higher education", "iphone". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2012 Read more ... |
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Rosemary RussellRosemary Russell is a Research Officer within the Innovation Support Centre at UKOLN. Her current work focuses on Research Information Management (RIM) and the provision of support and advice for the JISC RIM programme. Rosemary participates in euroCRIS activities and is a member of the Best Practice Task Group. She also has an interest in institutional repository management and the integration of repositories and CRIS. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "cerif", "repositories", "research", "data", "metadata", "ukoln", "jisc", "eurocris", "dublin core", "infrastructure". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2012 Read more ... |
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Stephanie TaylorStephanie Taylor is a library and information consultant and trainer / facilitator with a background in academic libraries and over 15 years of experience in the library and information sector. She also worked for around five years on the ‘dark side’, as a project manager & engineering team leader for a library software company. She occasionally uses that experience to write documentation and wrangle developers for HEI software development projects. Her main interests are in all things digital library, social media, digital copyright, repositories, Open Access and Open Development. She can often be found talking about these topics along with knitting, chocolate and cocktails on Twitter as @criticalsteph Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "repositories", "research", "rsp", "blog", "web 2.0", "data", "jisc", "dissemination", "ukoln", "software". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated July 2012 Read more ... |
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Jason CooperDr Jason Cooper has been a member of Library Systems at Loughborough University for 8 years. He develops and maintains a number of key systems for the Library. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "database", "xml", "api", "metadata", "data", "licence", "perl", "z39.50", "archives", "search technology". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated June 2012 Read more ... |
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Jon KnightDr Jon Knight works for several departments at Loughborough University, including the Library. He has been involved with digital libraries and library systems for approximately 20 years. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "html", "cache", "database", "marc", "cd-rom", "software", "metadata", "linux", "data", "acorn". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated June 2012 Read more ... |
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Lorcan DempseyLorcan Dempsey is the Vice President and Chief Strategist of the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC). He is a native of Dublin, Ireland, where he worked for some years in public libraries. He writes and talks about libraries and networked information. He is interested in the impact of changing patterns of research and learning on libraries, in libraries as public institutions, and in the architecture of digital information environments. Lorcan Dempsey on Twitter: @lorcanD Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "data", "research", "cataloguing", "dner", "elib", "jisc", "search technology", "infrastructure", "framework", "metadata". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated May 2012 Read more ... |
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Sally RumseySally Rumsey is Digital Collections Development Manager at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. Sally leads the group responsible for development of and outreach for the Bodleian Libraries’ internal born-digital and digitised collections. She manages the Oxford University Research Archive (ORA), a sustainable repository for Oxford research publications. She is involved with development of data repository services and other aspects of a research data management infrastructure for the University. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "repositories", "data", "research", "oai-ore", "preservation", "data management", "metadata", "university of oxford", "aggregation", "rdf". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated May 2012 Read more ... |
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Charles OppenheimCharles Oppenheim was, until he retired in 2009, Professor of Information Science at Loughborough University, and is currently a Visiting Professor at Queensland University. Previously he held posts in academia and the electronic publishing industry. Charles has undertaken research in, given talks on, and published widely on all aspects of information law, especially Intellectual Property Rights and licences, and on bibliometrics and research assessment. He is a consultant to a number of private and public sector bodies. He is a member of the UK’s Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance, and of the team that negotiates licences on behalf of the UK higher and further education communities with the Copyright Licensing Agency. He is also a member of the European Commission’s Legal Advisory Board. He can be followed on Twitter: @CharlesOppenh Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "copyright", "research", "repositories", "google", "search technology", "rae", "licence", "creative commons", "ecms", "archives". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated May 2012 Read more ... |
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Simon ChoppinSimon Choppin is a sports engineering researcher at the Centre for Sports Engineering Research at Sheffield Hallam University, where he specialises in impact dynamics, high-speed video and data modelling. His PhD at Sheffield University investigated tennis racket dynamics and involved working with the International Tennis Federation. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "software", "research", "blog", "machine learning", "university of oxford", "software sustainability institute", "twitter", "open source", "copyright", "video". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated April 2012 Read more ... |
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Tim DaviesTim Davies is a librarian with North Lincolnshire Council. With a colleague he leads on the service’s engagement with community learning, as well as taking responsibility for initiatives around health information (especially mental health), economic development, housing and digital exclusion. He does his fair share of reference and enquiry work, and can often be found leading local history and storytelling walks around the area. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "plain text", "north lincolnshire library", "standards", "information retrieval", "bbc", "wikipedia", "research", "dvd", "jisc information environment", "ebook". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated March 2012 Read more ... |
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Alan HopkinsonAlan Hopkinson works primarily in a consultancy role leading externally funded projects at Middlesex University Learning Resources. He is currently managing a project to modernise library and information science teaching in Armenia, Georgia and Uzbekistan and leading Middlesex input in improving information literacy in the Balkans as well as modernising library IT infrastructure in Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzogovina. He is a member of IFLA's Committee on Standards established in 2012. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "tiff", "ocr", "digitisation", "national academy of sciences", "preservation", "adobe", "dvd", "optical character recognition", "software", "metadata". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated February 2012 Read more ... |
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Tigran ZargaryanTigran Zargaryan received a Masters in Computer Science from Yerevan State Engineering University (Armenia) and a Ph.D. in Information Science from Moscow Historical Archives Institute. He is currently Director of the National Library of Armenia, Scientific Adviser of the Fundamental Scientific Library of NAS, and Dean of the Library School of the International Scientific Educational Centre of NAS. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "tiff", "ocr", "digitisation", "national academy of sciences", "preservation", "adobe", "dvd", "optical character recognition", "software", "metadata". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated February 2012 Read more ... |
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Liz LyonDr Liz Lyon is Director, UKOLN, University of Bath, and leads work to enable transformational change in digital libraries, data informatics and open science which supports the JISC Innovation Programme. She is Associate Director, Digital Curation Centre and leads the UKOLN Informatics Research Group which initiated innovative and influential JISC-funded data management and scholarly communications projects. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "data", "research", "web services", "metadata", "jisc information environment", "portal", "video", "digital library", "provenance", "xml". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated February 2012 Read more ... |
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Sylvie LafortuneSylvie Lafortune is an Associate Librarian at Laurentian University of Sudbury, one of the two bilingual universities in Canada. Her main area of responsibility is Government Information, Data and GIS. She is currently Chair of the Department of Library and Archives at her institution. For the past few years, she has enjoyed being the faculty advisor for the World University Service of Canada Local Committee at Laurentian. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "data", "research", "gis", "data management", "e-government", "archives", "infrastructure", "knowledge management", "software", "repositories". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated December 2011 Read more ... |
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Sarah HoughtonSarah Houghton has worked in libraries for the last 15 years, as a librarian for 10. She has worked with state and national library advocacy organisations including Infopeople, California Library Association, American Library Association, and the Library and Information Technology Association – including a three-year stint as a member of LITA's Top Technology Trends Committee and working on the OITP eBooks Taskforce. She was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker as a Trendspotter in 2009. She speaks internationally at live and online events for libraries and other institutions. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "rss", "data", "social networks", "software", "cataloguing", "archives", "instant messaging", "blog", "podcast", "video". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated December 2011 Read more ... |
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Peter Williams
Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "archives", "research", "repositories", "british library", "software", "digital archive", "blog", "university college london", "ict", "privacy". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated December 2011 Read more ... |
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Ugne LipeikaiteUgne Lipeikaite is working with EIFL on research study of perceptions of public libraries in Africa as well as follow-up activities to raise awareness of the potential of public libraries targeted at decision makers. She is also leading impact planning and assessment activities of a national wide library public access computing project in Lithuania, funded by Global Libraries Programme of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Her field of experience includes ICT diffusion and adoption projects, eInclusion initiatives and development of impact assessment frameworks for ICT- related projects and programmes. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "research", "eifl", "data", "ict", "tns rms", "software", "cataloguing", "europeana", "e-government", "infrastructure". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated December 2011 Read more ... |
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Ute RusnakUte Rusnak is Head of Public Research and Education at FIZ Karlsruhe. She holds a university degree in biology and has an additional qualification as a software engineer. For many years her focus has been on the design and development of reference databases and academic information portals. Currently, she provides project support for information infrastructure developments. She is interested in the ongoing changes in academic data management and its development towards the coverage of the entire research data lifecycle. Most frequently used terms in this author's articles (ordered by total usage / articles): "research", "data", "infrastructure", "data management", "software", "repositories", "fiz karlsruhe", "open source", "e-research", "metadata". See interactive data charts for more details on all tags associated with this author. Author profile last updated December 2011 Read more ... |