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Author Archives: Mark van Harmelen
Personalisation is the supply of services and/or data based on a model of a user
As part of work commissioned by JISC from Sero Consulting and Hedtek I’ve come up with a broad, simple definition of personalisation: Personalisation is the supply of services and/or data based on a model of a user. Supply and model are interpreted broadly, to mean by a machine or human agent. Examples of human agency are personalised [...]
Achieving the impossible
Increasingly austere times are upon us, and despite a degree of ring-fencing of the education budget after the 2010 election, the future for education in the UK looks increasingly grim. Today we see further confirmation of a rumour in HE circles, that there looks likely to be a large cut in Higher Education funding in [...]
Project award: fishDelish
We are very pleased to have a strong role in the fishDelish Project awarded to the University of Manchester’s School of Computer Science by the Joint Information Systems Council (JISC). Our co-partners in the project include FIN Inc, a not-for profit NGO that has created and runs FishBase, a 400M hit per annum species-specific database. [...]
Project award: ourWikiBooks
We are very pleased to have a role in the recently announced ourWikiBooks Project awarded to the Manchester University’s School of Computer Science by the Joint Information Systems Council (JISC). The project will investigate student authorship of textbook material: “OurWikiBooks will undertake co-development, with teachers and GCSE and A-level students, of a new digital collection of key [...]
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What we’ve been doing at Hedtek
Our last post was way back, during ALT-C. Since then we’ve been totally heads down, working on projects for clients and on our own PLE Project. The JISC-funded MOSAIC Project, with SERO and co-partners Ken Chad (Ken Chad Consulting) and Paul Miller (Cloud of Data) investigated, at many levels, a new social and personal search [...]
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Hedtek tumblelog
For the last year we’ve been a bit inward facing with several large projects to attend closely to, including getting the PLE to a usable state, and running the first trial with 80 users. This blog has been pretty much focused on company stuff, on presentations I’ve made, and on the Manchester PLE. Wanting something [...]
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The Mosaic search engine
We are coming to the end of the JISC-funded Mosaic Project. As part of that project Hedtek has designed and, with help from our friends at Sefol U.G., implemented a prototype search engine that allows personalised searches of bibliographic data according to one’s own course cohort, or according to various other faceted criteria that [...]
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Making Web 2.0 Work for You
Slides from keynote at HEA Physical Sciences Workshop
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