Category Archives: projects

Project award: fishDelish

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: June 8, 2010
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. [...]
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Project award: ourWikiBooks

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: June 8, 2010
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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iDoc: Hedtek’s open source community documentation system

By David Workman | Published: May 26, 2010
iDoc is an open source community documentation system for the production and use of help documentation for web sites and applications. It’s more than just a vanilla documentation system:  We believe is important is for the users of an application to be able to contribute back and help others learn to use an application application — iDoc allows [...]
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What we’ve been doing at Hedtek

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: May 26, 2010
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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The Mosaic search engine

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: November 18, 2009
  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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