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Emergency Data Retention Laws
by Alex Hovden via WSI | WSI
This morning there was breaking news that the Government would be introducing an emergency bill to give powers to police and intelligence authorities that would enable them to continue to access phone and internet records. To the layman, anything involving “emergency” or “data” or “laws” (or a combination) can be alarming. What are they looking for? Are they spying? What …
Open Access
by Alex Hovden via WSI | WSI
So here I am… sat here in Bay 7, Level 3 of building 32. It’s a fairly warm Wednesday afternoon and unfortunately i’m wearing a black t-shirt (black absorbs heat). I’m trawling through the feed of tweets, when I come across one from @OA_Button… Join thousands of researchers in demanding #OpenAccess to research. Use the Open Access Button today: http://t.co/fsl203AgpZ …
Are government workers really more public-spirited than those in the private sector?
by Carolin Bothe-Tews via Work Thought Blog
Authors: Mirco Tonin, Senior Lecturer in Economics at University of Southampton Michael Vlassopoulos, Senior Lecturer in Economics at University of Southampton The following article was originally posted at ‘The conversation‘ blog. A fifth of UK workers are employed in the public sector. Though public sector work is obvious crucial – schools, hospitals, police and so on – measuring performance […]
Next run of the Web Science MOOC!!!!
by Alex Hovden via WSI | WSI
The next running of the Web Science MOOC, run by the University of Southampton in conjunction with FutureLearn, starts on 6th October 2014! We will also be organising a Thunderclap over the coming months to get the word out about this so keep an eye on @sotonWSI and all the blogs for more details on how you can get involved! Remember …
Web Science Institute official launch!
by Alex Hovden via WSI | WSI
Royal Society, London – Thursday 12th June 2014 This was the formal launch of the world leading Web Science Institute. Click the link below to see the full event programme and details: WSI Launch Brochure The day kicked off at 10:30 am with a Web Science Institute in the City of London rooms with various organisations including the Open Data …
A Digital Economy Recipe for MOOCs
by Graeme Earl via WSI | WSI
In a month’s time the DE USRG will cease to exist, as it merges with the Web Science Institute. Since we took it over in 2011 we have focused on a few key areas: Firstly, the role of technological innovation in driving research-informed education, and this being digital economy research in its own right. The education sector is changing rapidly …
Computationally Intensive Imaging USRG EPSRC Summer Bursaries 2014
by Nathan Soper via Computational Intensive Imaging Blog
Nathan Soper – ‘Application of X-ray Computed Tomography and advanced image processing for novel quantification of plant root growth micro-mechanisms’. I’ve just finished my 3rd year of Electronic Engineering and am set to be beginning my 4th and final year this September. This internship is based within the Faculty of Engineering and the Environment and […]
Lights Camera Action
by Ian Dawson via Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities
Taplow House, a housing block within the notorious Aylesbury estate, southeast London, named after Taeppa’s Low, a 7th Century Anglo-Saxon burial mound 29 miles west along the River Thames, this 1960’s housing development, famous for the Channel 4 ident, the one where the camera pans across desolate concrete walkways. The regeneration is underway, a project that will see Taplow House …
Research data and MOOCosystems
by Graeme Earl via WSI | WSI
I’ve spoken at a number of events recently about what I see as the potential for joining up MOOCs in order to create shared curricula. I have for example cross-referenced material in the Archaeology of Portus course to Coursera and Brown’s Archaeology’s Dirty Little Secrets course, and to the Coursera and Yale Roman Architecture course. In the coming weeks we …
New Web Science Institute Blog
by Lisa Harris via Digital Economy USRG
Since the start of 2014, we have migrated existing posts from this blog to the new Web Science Institute blog https://blog.soton.ac.uk/wsi – please check this out for the latest content The DE emailing list has also been re-titled WSI – its membership list is unchanged.