AIRDIP (The Higher Education Academy resource catalogue integration)
Commissioned by the Higher Education Academy, Intute is integrated the Resource Collections of ten Academy Subject Centres and enhanced the quality of their data. The project brought the records from those Subject Centres into a single database. 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
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 aimed to generate awareness of the new JISC digitisation projects amongst the relevant sections of the UK academic research community. The project used several dissemination channels, which were cross-linked by research theme to encourage further exploration of the outputs of the digitisation projects, and highlight how they can contribute to research.
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 aimed to 'open' 360 credits of educational resources in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine/science, postgraduate and staff development programmes. Intute worked 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
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 intended 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 delivered 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
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
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 developed tag recommender demonstrators for Intute and Copac. These demonstrators included suggestions from both structured (controlled) vocabularies and unstructured sets of previous tags.
Partners: University of Glamorgan and Copac
Timescale: March - September 09
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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