News from the Institute for Learning and Research Technology http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/images/logo_very_small.jpg 2008/06/17: TASI is a JISC Advisory Service. For the last ten years we have provided advice, guidance and training to the UK further and higher education sector on technical issues relating to digitisation and digital still images. From Summer 2008, we are expanding our remit to include moving images and sound. To reflect this widening of service provision we are redeveloping our Web site: http://www.tasi.ac.uk/ We would like to involve our users and potential users at the start of the process by asking their opinions on the current site, gathering suggestions for improvements, and inviting further participation in user focus groups/testing. If you would like to provide feedback, please fill out our short survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=lj8sYMLGYxeSIooQoSF7tA_3d_3d http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20965&newsyear=2008 2008-06-16T23:00:00Z 2008/06/12 09:38:58 GMT+1: Intute: Arts and Humanities’ latest Limelight examines the emotive issue of euthanasia from a philosophical viewpoint. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20964&newsyear=2008 2008-06-11T23:00:00Z 2008/06/11 10:22:27 GMT+1: The June issue of the Spotlight science magazine is now available. Written for Intute by science writer David Bradley, Spotlight contains topical science articles and news features. This issue has articles on temperature behaviour of quantum systems, potential uses of amyloids, and a newly discovered planet. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20963&newsyear=2008 2008-06-10T23:00:00Z 2008/06/05: TASI has just published a new advice document, Using Flickr to Organise a Collection of Images. Whether you have a small number of photographs you would like to share privately with a few colleagues, or a larger collection you need to make more widely available, Flickr offers a possible alternative to setting up an in-house image database. As well as exploring some of the more useful features, the document also highlights Flickr's limitations and point out areas where particular consideration needs to be taken. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20962&newsyear=2008 2008-06-04T23:00:00Z 2008/06/04 12:08:43 GMT+1: The Sport and Leisure Practice section of Intute: Social Sciences has recently been updated to include a new section for Multisport events resources. The events are split into National and International multisport events; the International multisport events section contains resources about the Commonwealth Games and the Olympic Games, including London 2012. Also of interest is the [...] http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20961&newsyear=2008 2008-06-03T23:00:00Z 2008/05/14 22:40:08 GMT+1: The latest Limelight from Intute: Arts and Humanities provides links to valuable Internet resources about castles built in Wales during the rule of the English king Edward I. Image of Rhuddlan Castle, North Wales, from original photograph by ‘Deathwaves’, some rights reserved under Creative Commons. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20960&newsyear=2008 2008-05-13T23:00:00Z 2008/05/12 12:08:01 GMT+1: The May issue of the Spotlight science magazine is now available. Written for Intute by science writer David Bradley, Spotlight contains topical science articles and news features. This issue has articles on carbon-based nanoparticles, ocean oxygen starvation, and palaeontologists' thoughts on carbon spheres created by an asteroid impact. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20959&newsyear=2008 2008-05-11T23:00:00Z 2008/05/02 16:25:12 GMT+1: The latest Limelight feature from Intute: Arts and Humanities is about “Endangered languages”. This has been published to coincide with annual Endangered Languages week (30 April - 7 May 2008), with seminars, workshops, film screenings and an open day (organised by the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project at the School of Oriental and African Studies [...] http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20956&newsyear=2008 2008-05-01T23:00:00Z 2008/05/02: TASI has just released its fourth review of image search engines. This fully updated report critically evaluates and compares all the main image search engines. TASI used the same set of search terms to test each engine, and evaluated them using the following criteria: scope, search options, performance, presentation and support. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20958&newsyear=2008 2008-05-01T23:00:00Z 2008/05/02: Please note that from Monday 5th May 2008 some of TASI's telephone numbers are changing. The main change is to the TASI Helpdesk number which will be: 0117 331 4447. The TASI Helpdesk email address remains the same: info@tasi.ac.uk. Some individual staff numbers are also changing, and their new numbers will be available from 5th May 2008 by following the staff links on our About Us page. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20957&newsyear=2008 2008-05-01T23:00:00Z 2008/04/28 14:07:47 GMT+1: Minor maintenance work will be carried out on the Intute database during the JANET "at risk" period (07.00-09.00 BST) which may result in the search functionality not working as expected for short periods, apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20955&newsyear=2008 2008-04-27T23:00:00Z 2008/04/24 17:38:47 GMT+1: The latest Limelight feature from Intute: Arts and Humanities is Researching videogames with Intute. This provides an extensive view of the study of videogames using sources found freely on the Internet many of which have been reviewed by Intute, as well as sample chapters from a number of books which are available online. YouTube videos [...] http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20952&newsyear=2008 2008-04-23T23:00:00Z 2008/04/24 11:05:20 GMT+1: Intute: Health and Life Sciences will be exhibiting at the Royal College of Nursing annual Congress in Bournemouth, from 28th-30th April. They can be found at stand 125 in the Purbeck Hall on the upper level of the Bournemouth International Centre. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20953&newsyear=2008 2008-04-23T23:00:00Z 2008/04/24: Many thanks to each of the 44 students who sent entries to our competition. The award winners have been decided and are all named on the linked page. Congratulations to all of them. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20954&newsyear=2008 2008-04-23T23:00:00Z 2008/04/17 11:59:25 GMT+1: There will be some minor maintenance work on the Intute database during the JANET “at risk” period 07.00-09.00 (BST) Tues 22nd April. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20951&newsyear=2008 2008-04-16T23:00:00Z 2008/04/16 17:07:04 GMT+1: JISC launched a new campaign called “Libraries of the Future” at the 2008 JISC Conference this week - and invites involvement from the higher and further education community- both online and in person - in events, and in responses to publications and podcasts over the coming months. JISC campaigns aim to initiate conversations and debate about issues that are [...] http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20949&newsyear=2008 2008-04-15T23:00:00Z 2008/04/16 08:41:56 GMT+1: April 16, anniversary of the killing by Red Brigades of Senator Roberto Ruffilli in Forlì, Italy, (an advisor of Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita), 1988 April 18, anniversary of the suicide bombing of the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people, 1983 April 19, anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, USA, 168 killed, 1995 (see [...] http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20950&newsyear=2008 2008-04-15T23:00:00Z 2008/04/14 11:56:59 GMT+1: Intute Repository Search (IRS), which provides a search across UK institutional repositories, has now moved over to a completely new search engine based on an enterprise level search server called SOLR (lucene.apache.org/solr/). Although there will be no obvious differences that our users will be able to see at the moment, this software platform [...] http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20948&newsyear=2008 2008-04-13T23:00:00Z 2008/04/09 15:47:05 GMT+1: University, college and library staff in the South West (UK)  interested in finding out more about Intute and Internet research skills might be interested in attending the following events organised by the JISC Regional Support Centre SW, where Intute staff will be participating: 1)  Wed 14th May 2008 - It’s a Jungle Out There - finding your way [...] http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20946&newsyear=2008 2008-04-08T23:00:00Z 2008/04/09 10:08:36 GMT+1: The April issue of the Spotlight science magazine is now available. Written for Intute by science writer David Bradley, Spotlight contains topical science articles and news features. This issue has articles on the accuracy of climate change models, the storage of hydrogen for powering fuel cell vehicles, and black holes. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20947&newsyear=2008 2008-04-08T23:00:00Z 2008/04/08: TASI has a vacancy for a part-time Marketing Officer. You will lead and implement TASI's marketing strategy and activities to promote TASI within the UK's Further and Higher Education communities and (to a lesser extent) the UK's cultural heritage sector. A large part of the role will be to develop brand recognition and awareness of the usefulness of TASI's services and, as a result, to increase usage of TASI's services. You will have a first degree, membership of CIM, and 2-3 years' experience designing, developing and delivering marketing plans. In addition you will have had an involvement in producing multimedia products, used Web-based technologies and be expert in writing for both technical and non-technical audiences. You will have excellent communication, presentation and time-management skills along with excellent IT skills. Based at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology, TASI is a JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) funded Advisory Service http://www.tasi.ac.uk/, which provides technical information, training and resources for digitisation projects and teaching staff who use digital media. This is a part-time post (around 17.5 hours per week to be negotiated). Further information is available on the University of Bristol's Current Vacancies page: http://www.bris.ac.uk/boris/jobs/ads?ID=72283 http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20945&newsyear=2008 2008-04-07T23:00:00Z 2008/04/07 13:45:43 GMT+1: Intute staff will be running an exhibition stand at the JISC Conference 2008 on April 15th and would be delighted to meet any delegates wishing to find out about the latest innovations of the service. In particular we will be giving demos of the new Intute Repository Search - a new beta service that offers free access to [...] http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20944&newsyear=2008 2008-04-06T23:00:00Z 2008/04/02: TASI has two vacancies for TASI Technical Support Officers - Moving Images. You will support the UK's Further and Higher Education communities in the creation, management and use/reuse of digital moving images (including/excluding sound) resources in teaching, learning and research. You will have a degree-level qualification and 2-3 years' professional experience in creating and using digital moving image resources within an academic or cultural sector environment, including both practical experience and theoretical knowledge, and understanding of the digital lifecycle. You will have excellent communication, presentation and time-management skills along with good research skills. Based at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology, TASI is a JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) funded Advisory Service http://www.tasi.ac.uk/ which provides technical information, training and resources for digitisation projects and teaching staff who use digital media. Further information is available on the University of Bristol's Current Vacancies page: http://www.bris.ac.uk/boris/jobs/ads?ID=72226 http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20943&newsyear=2008 2008-04-01T23:00:00Z 2008/04/01 17:08:18 GMT+1: Eight new Intute subject booklets have been published this month, each providing a “taster” of the scholarly Internet resources that can be found by using Intute. Print copies of the booklets are being distributed to teaching staff in UK universities, to remind lecturers that they can use the Intute database to guide their students to websites that [...] http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20940&newsyear=2008 2008-03-31T23:00:00Z 2008/04/01 09:00:20 GMT+1: The blog from Intute: Arts and Humanities and the new Limelight article provide some interesting reading on this April Fool’s Day, and beyond… art and archaeology fakes and forgeries, plagiarism and intellectual property law, even graffiti! http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20941&newsyear=2008 2008-03-31T23:00:00Z 2008/04/01: Based at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology, these two posts will support the UK's Further and Higher Education communities in the creation, management and use/reuse of digital sound resources in teaching, learning and research. TASI is a JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) funded Advisory Service http://www.tasi.ac.uk/ which provides technical information, training and resources for digitisation projects and teaching staff who use digital media. You will have a degree-level qualification and 2-3 years' professional experience in creating and using digital sound resources within an academic or cultural sector environment, including both practical experience and theoretical knowledge and understanding of the digital lifecycle. You will have excellent communication, presentation and time-management skills along with good research skills. Further information is available on the University of Bristol's Current Vacancies page: http://www.bris.ac.uk/boris/jobs/ads?ID=72206 http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20942&newsyear=2008 2008-03-31T23:00:00Z 2008/03/19 11:26:23 GMT: Intute: Social Sciences has been featuring a series of podcasts supporting the Royal Economic Society Conference 2008 that includes a range of interviews with researchers in economics talking about their work. They have been produced in association with the Economics Network as part of their Why Study Economics initiative. Topics covered include: Promotional piracy - did the Arctic [...] http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20938&newsyear=2008 2008-03-19T00:00:00Z 2008/03/19 10:30:39 GMT: The latest Intute: Arts and Humanities Limelight features the British Library’s website ‘Sacred‘, which accompanied an exhibition in 2007 on the common ground of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The online gallery and other online presentations show how the Library brought the world’s greatest collection of Jewish, Christian and Islamic holy texts together side by [...] http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20939&newsyear=2008 2008-03-19T00:00:00Z 2008/03/18 12:08:58 GMT: Intute: Arts and Humanities has recently published online a Limelight feature for Egyptology resources. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20936&newsyear=2008 2008-03-18T00:00:00Z 2008/03/18: TASI has just announced new dates for our most poular workshops. Full details of all TASI workshops and the online booking form are available from the Training page. Don't forget, you can now subscribe to our RSS feed for news of forthcoming TASI workshops. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/news/news_story?newsid=20937&newsyear=2008 2008-03-18T00:00:00Z