AIRDIP (The Higher Education Academy resource catalogue integration)
Commissioned by the Higher Education Academy, Intute is integrating the Resource Collections of ten Academy Subject Centres and enhancing the quality of their data. This project will bring the records from those Subject Centres into a single database and aims to enhance the user experience, as data will flow easily through Intute and the participating Academy Subject Centres. Each Subject Centre website will be able to provide tailored subsets of data for their different user groups and configured search options to meet user needs.
Partners: The Higher Education Academy
Timescale: 2006 - August 2009
Contact: Diana Massam [Diana.massam@manchester.ac.uk]
EASTER (Evaluating Automated Subject Tools for Enhancing Retrieval)
Led by UKOLN, this project will test and evaluate existing tools for automated subject metadata generation in order to better understand what is possible, what the limitations of current solutions are, and make subsequent recommendations for services employing subject metadata in the JISC community.
Partners: UKOLN (project lead)
Timescale: April 09 - September 2010
Contact: Debra Hiom [d.hiom@bristol.ac.uk]
IJDDiP (Intute/JISC Digitisation Dissemination Project)
This project aims to generate awareness of the new JISC digitisation projects amongst the relevant sections of the UK academic research community. The project will use several dissemination channels, which will be cross-linked by research theme to encourage further exploration of the outputs of the digitisation projects, and highlight how they can contribute to research.
Contact: James Wilson [james.wilson@oucs.ox.ac.uk]
Informs
Intute Informs is a popular tool for creating and sharing online tutorials. This project is part of Mimas enhancement activity and as such will: develop the service in line with user requirements so that it is easier to use; support the growth of a self sufficient user community by continuing to build the community of practice around the service; and enhance user guidance and training for other Mimas services by creating Informs tutorials for them.
Timescale: October 09 - March 10
Contact: Diana Massam [Diana.massam@manchester.ac.uk]
Jorum metadata creation and editing services
Since 2005 Intute has been working in collaboration with Jorum to deliver an approach to metadata generation which involves authors and information specialists. This work delivers greater quality assurance of metadata for resource location, classification and pedagogical description.
Partners: Jorum
Timescale: 2005 onwards
Contact: Caroline Williams [Caroline.williams@manchester.ac.uk]
MEDEV - Organising Open Educational resources
Led by the Academy Subject Centre for Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine (MEDEV), this project aims to 'open' 360 credits of educational resources in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine/science, postgraduate and staff development programmes. Intute will work with the University of Warwick on a toolkit for resource discovery.
Partners: The Academy Subject Centre for Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine and the University of Warwick
Timescale: April 2009 - March 2010
Contact: Jackie Wickham [Jacqueline.wickham@nottingham.ac.uk]
Mobile Internet Detective
The Intute Internet Detective is already positioned as a popular, well respected online tutorial, helping users to assess the academic validity of websites. This project intends to build on the existing service by extending its reach to include mobile users, who, as the mobile Internet has developed, have come to expect higher standards when browsing on their handsets. The project will deliver a user friendly mobile site that is fast and inexpensive to load, providing the right content, presented in the right order and with an adapted layout.
Timescale: 1 August 09 - 30 November 09
Contact: Andy Priest [Andrew.priest@manchester.ac.uk]
MyReferences
Based on the work of the D2D project, this project will develop a demonstrator of 'My References' that extends Copac functionality into Intute. Through this demonstrator, Copac or Intute users would be able to aggregate, tag and annotate resources from all services and maintain them separately in their desired web 2.0 contexts. The user will be able to get an Atom feed of the records they've saved with the long-term potential to manage their collection of records within a Virtual Learning Environment, blog, RSS reader, or clients such as Netvibes.
Partners: Copac
Timescale: March - September 09
Contact: Andy Priest [Andrew.priest@manchester.ac.uk]
Organic.Edunet
A three year EU funded project, Organic.Edunet aims to raise the standard of education in organic agriculture in Europe. Intute is contributing content from our Agriculture, Food and Forestry section, and enhancing our existing metadata descriptions to meet the Organic.Edunet standards (IEEE LOM Application Profile).
Timescale: October 2007 - September 2010
Contact: Jackie Wickham [Jacqueline.wickham@nottingham.ac.uk]
PERTAINs (Personalisation tagging interface information in services)
Based on work between the University of Glamorgan and Intute (within the EnTag project led by UKOLN ), PERTAINs will develop tag recommender demonstrators for Intute and Copac. These demonstrators will include suggestions from both structured (controlled) vocabularies and unstructured sets of previous tags.
Partners: University of Glamorgan and Copac
Timescale: March - September 09
Contact: Andy Priest [Andrew.priest@manchester.ac.uk]
ViM (Value for money in automatic Metadata generation)
This project aims to better understand the information search and retrieval needs of higher education, identify opportunities to increase the efficacy of metadata, and to improve efficiency of metadata generation processes in national and local services. It will investigate the trade-offs between "value to user" and "cost of creation" in order to establish the optimum point for value for money in metadata generation. In so doing this project will make more cost effective the delivery of scholarly resources for research and learning. Intute is uniquely placed to undertake this work because of the information held on the time and cost of manual metadata generation, the existence of the current Intute database of Internet resources for benchmarking purposes, and its unrivalled expertise in metadata creation and use.
Timescale: April 09 - September 2010
Contact: Debra Hiom [d.hiom@bristol.ac.uk]
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