Posts Tagged ‘JISC’

March 10, 2011 0

Progress Update

By Joe in Uncategorized

Its time for a short update on how the project is progressing. We’ve had an incrementally feature-full prototype of our Codex available on our project web since January and we’ve been working hard to improve it. If you haven’t already then head on over to http://musicnet.mspace.fm/codex and search for a composer. What have we added [...]

Tags: alignment, data.ac.uk, dissemination, inf11, JISC, jiscEXPO, jiscLMS, linkedbrainz, linkeddata, musicbrainz, musicnet, outputs, progressPost, progressPosts, projectEvaluation

December 30, 2010 2

End of year roundup

By Joe in Uncategorized

Its been a busy 2010 for the MusicNet project and we’ve made great progress. Our Alignment Tool is now becoming more mature and the latest code is showing significant increases in task speed, making the workflow much more efficient. We expect to be able to release Beta 2 in the new year, so keep checking [...]

Tags: alignment, inf11, JISC, jiscEXPO, linkeddata, musicnet, outputs, progressPost, projectEvaluation, workpackage

December 9, 2010 2

Performance & Usability Improvements

By Joe in Uncategorized

Lately we’ve been working hard to improve the workflow of our Alignment Tool. Based on the real user experience of the musicologist using the tool daily, we were able to implement some simple performance and UX (User Experience) updates that have had a dramatic effect on efficiency. The improvements we’ve made and the effect they’ve [...]

Tags: inf11, JISC, jiscEXPO, musicnet, optimisation, progressPosts, UI, usability, ux, WIN

October 25, 2010 6

MusicNet & LinkedBrainz Meetup

By Joe in Uncategorized

Overview Last Friday the MusicNet team headed to QMUL to meet with Kurt Jacobson & Simon Dixon from the LinkedBrainz project. LinkedBrainz is also funded by the JISC Expose (#jiscexpo) programme and is working, in conjunction with MusicBrainz, to produce an official Linked Data mapping for the MusicBrainz database. You can follow their progress on [...]

Tags: alignment, inf11, JISC, jiscEXPO, jiscLMS, linkedbrainz, linkeddata, musicbrainz, musicnet

October 19, 2010 1

Alignment Tool Implementation

By Joe in Uncategorized

In this post we’ll discuss a little about the implementation of the relatively simple server component of the Alignment Tool. You can read more about the tool in previous posts (Beta Release, Assisted Manual Data Alignment), or download the source yourself and have a play. Server Application Component Our servers run a typical LAMP (Linux, [...]

Tags: alignment, design patterns, inf11, JISC, jiscEXPO, musicnet, mvc, PHP, progressPosts, technicalDevelopment, techStandards

September 30, 2010 7

Alignment Tool (Beta Release 1)

By Joe in Uncategorized

There has been quite a bit of interest in the tool we’ve been developing to solve the (mis-)alignment of data across our multiple catalogs. Today we’re pleased to be able to make a release available for download, albeit in an unsupported beta form! Download Alignment Tool (beta 1) (Firefox 3.5+ or WebKit only) Whilst we [...]

Tags: alignment, data cleanup, JISC, jiscLMS, linkeddata, musicnet, outputs

September 13, 2010 1

Governance Model

By Joe in Uncategorized

In conjunction with OSS Watch we’ve started to create a Governance Model for the MusicNet project. The first draft can now be downloaded from the Google Code repository: Governance Model (Draft v1.0) If you’d like to contribute to the project then please don’t hesitate to get in contact

Tags: inf11, JISC, musicnet

September 8, 2010 0

Assisted Manual Data Alignment

By Joe in Uncategorized

One of the key milestones for the MusicNet project is to match up similar records in a number of source catalogues. Specifically we are looking for records that represent the same musical composer in multiple data sets. As discussed in the report for our first work package (WP1 Data Triage) the reason this task needs [...]

Tags: alignment, data cleanup, endUser, inf11, JISC, jiscLMS, linkeddata, musicnet, progressPost, semanticweb, UI, userCase

August 18, 2010 2

data.ac.uk revisited

By Joe in Uncategorized

Following on from Dan’s recent post about data.ac.uk there is a growing consensus that this is a necessary step that needs to be made to facilitate the growth of usable linked data in Higher Education. Next week there will be a public briefing paper from JISC on the topic. We expect that they will announce, [...]

Tags: data.ac.uk, inf11, JISC, jiscLMS, linkeddata, musicnet, permanence, persistent, semanticweb

July 20, 2010 0

WP1: Data Triage Report

By Joe in Uncategorized

We recently conducted an assessment of the metadata available in our data partners digital catalogs as part of our stated Work Package 1 deliverable. The aim of this assessment was to ascertain what metadata fields were good candidates to be exposed in our Linked Data. Here is the introduction to the report: This document outlines [...]

Tags: inf11, JISC, jiscLMS, musicnet, report, workpackage, wp1

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