Virtual Rooms, Real Meetings

editor — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 23:00:00 +0000

Andy Powell takes a brief look at VRVS, a desktop video-conferencing tool that can be used to support collaborative activities between groups of geographically distributed researchers.

As a child I can remember watching an episode of Tomorrow's World (the BBC's weekly popular science programme of the time) [1] that showed the use of a video phone and how people would soon actually be able to see the person to whom they were talking. "Wow," I thought, "that is the future."

Web Focus: QA Focus Has Finished - Let's Start Embedding QA

editor — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 23:00:00 +0000

Brian Kelly reviews the JISC-funded QA Focus Project and argues that developers should be using quality assurance principles.

About QA Focus

The JISC-funded QA Focus Project officially finished on 31 July 2004. The project, which started on 1 January 2002, supported JISC's digital library programmes. QA Focus developed a quality assurance (QA) framework which could be used by projects funded by JISC's Information Environment programmes to ensure that project deliverables were functional, widely accessible and interoperable.

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Virtual Rooms, Real Meetings

Web Focus: QA Focus Has Finished - Let's Start Embedding QA

About QA Focus