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By: JiscEXPO Emerging Themes | JISC IE Technical Foundations

JiscEXPO Emerging Themes | JISC IE Technical Foundations — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:22:25 +0000

[...] possibly JISC funded, to lower technical and financial barrier to entry to publish RDF. One suggestion is that this could be possible via the data.gov.uk education [...]

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Data Portability Policies in HEIs « OUseful.Info, the blog… — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:13:57 +0000

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Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:57:27 +0000

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links for 2010-06-08 « Onlinejournalismtest's Blog — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:07:40 +0000

[...] OUseful.Info, the blog… – student satisfaction data is available from the Direct Gov Unistats service (OU data [XLS]; general download list); – funding data about current grants is provided on research council sites. The EPSRC, for example, provide a way of accessing spreadsheets for funding received by various OU departments: OU Awards from the EPSRC (see more generally the full list of funded organisations; (if you know similar ways of getting similar data from other research councils, or funders such as JISC, please post a link in the comments to this post:-) – financial data, where already published; the OU’s public financial statements can be found on the Freedom of Information minisite, for example (OU FOI: financial statements); – organisational data, where already published. Again the OU seems to be ahead of the game on this one via the FOI site: OU FOI: organisational structure; – RAE (tags: data databases education tonyhirst) [...]

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Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:21:24 +0000

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By: Andy Cotgreave

Andy Cotgreave — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:28:17 +0000

Great idea.

The HEIDI service (https://heidi.hesa.ac.uk/) – linked to from @kitwallace’s blog , is the online service built on data from all HE institutions. It’s current implementation is clunky but functional, but would be excellent if it was freely opened up.

Most universities publish annual student statistics numbers such as ours at Oxford University here: http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/sr/statistics.shtml *

However, there’s no common format. In the US there is a common format for all unis to publish student numbers. I can’t imagine HE in the UK moving towards a common model any time quickly, though.

* You need to download the free Tableau Reader to use them; this will change next year when it will all be available on the web, and, I hope, Oxford will lead the way in publicly available student population numbers.

By: From Web Sites to Data for Events « UK Web Focus

From Web Sites to Data for Events « UK Web Focus — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:21:57 +0000

[...] The importance of open data has been highlighted over the past few days with the Government’s public release of the Coins database. For those of us working in the public sector I feel there will be a need to move beyond the provision of Web sites designed for humans to the provision of open data for consumption by software, unecumbered by licence conditions which place restrictions on how the date can be used (a point, incidentally, raised yesterday by Tony Hirst in a post on “Time for data.ac.uk? Or a local data.open.ac.uk?“). [...]