The University of Hull
Projects
RIDIR
Resourcing IDentifier
Interoperability for Repositories (RIDIR) is a project funded under the
auspices of the Joint Information Systems Committee 'Repositories and
Preservation' Programme. It is investigating the requirements for, and
benefits of, the clear use of persistent identifiers in order to
facilitate interoperability between digital repositories of different
types.
http://www.hull.ac.uk/ridir/
REMAP
Funded under the
auspices of the Joint Information Systems Committee 'Repositories and
Preservation' Programme. It is investigating the use of a digital
repository to support the embedding of records management and digital
preservation within the context of a UK Higher Education institution.
http://www.hull.ac.uk/remap/
The central objective of the eReSS study is to provide support to the JISC VRE Programme by helping to identify suitable solutions for the interoperability of Virtual Research Environment tools, applications, and resources. This will, of necessity, cover both ongoing activities within the VRE Programme and parallel activities in the wider Grid, eResearch and related environments of interest. eReSS is running from March 2006 - February 2009, and will work in parallel with current and future VRE projects to support their need for information on interoperability and associated standards and specifications.
The major online output from the study is a wiki.
http://www.hull.ac.uk/esig/eress.html
CREE
The Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment (CREE) is a project
arising from the Joint Information Systems Committee Portals:
Investigations into User Requirements & Sustainability invitation
to tender. The project is investigating how users wish to have
library-based resources and services presented to them in portal and
non-portal environments. To this end, the project will be: assessing
user requirements for such services in different contexts related to
learning, teaching and research across HE and FE; investigating the
adaptation of existing tools for use within a portal framework using
the JSR 168 and WSRP standards; and testing these tools with a broad
range of users to evaluate the effectiveness and usefulness of
different interfaces and contexts.
http://www.hull.ac.uk/esig/cree/index.html
Valley of the First IronMasters Virtual Landscape (CONCLUDED)
The East Riding Archaeological Society (ERAS), in partnership with the Peter Halkon of the History Department, Ian Dolphin of Academic Services at the University of Hull, and Martin Millet, Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, has secured a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £84,000 to develop a 'virtual' landscape of the archaeologically-rich Foulness Valley in East Yorkshire. The valley is known as 'The Valley of the First Iron Masters' because it was home to one of Britain's oldest and largest prehistoric iron industries. Read the complete press release http://www.acsweb.hull.ac.uk/news/HLFPR.html
MakingTracks (CONCLUDED)
MakingTracks will integrate the work of the well established and popular online NRICH project at the University of Cambridge with the outcomes of the ELF funded project ISIS and the DEL funded Assis. It will produce an institutional demonstrator deploying the ISIS toolkit which has been updated by the experiences of the Assis project. The pedagogy of the existing Learning Trails will be enabled by the ELF technology and constructed in conformance with appropriate standards. MakingTracks will improve access to both the resources and their deployment ensuring the sustainability of these materials and the availability of them beyond the duration of the project.
Assis (CONCLUDED)
Assis will provide tools for a teacher to browse, search, preview and select assessment objects from question banks which can then be incorporated into packages of content which may also include sequencing instructions. The assessment objects in the content package will contain pointers to an external rendering service, to be developed by Assis, removing the requirement for teachers to have any knowledge of the technical details of how the object is presented to the learner or how the learner's responses are captured. For learners, a player will be produced that will present material from content packages and integrate with the Assis external services for presenting assessment objects and the processing of sequencing rules.
http://www.hull.ac.uk/esig/assis.html
ISIS (CONCLUDED)
ISIS will draw together leading-edge work to provide tools and libraries to facilitate creation, integration and presentation of sequenced learning activities. To achieve this, applications and services are required to enable designers of content to easily produce sequenced learning activities using the IMS Simple Sequencing specification
http://www.hull.ac.uk/esig/isis.html
PORTAL (CONCLUDED)
Presenting natiOnal Resources To Audiences Locally (PORTAL) is a partnership between Academic Services Interactive Media at the University of Hull and UKOLN. The project is funded under the Joint Information Systems Committee's (JISC) FAIR Programme, and will run until the end of October 2004. During the project, the PORTAL team will explore a wide range of issues relating to institutional portals, and the integration of national resources with institutional information and services.
http://www.fair-portal.hull.ac.uk/