Category Archives: projects

Robust systems

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: February 1, 2013
How pleasing to have a potential client, a developer who knows us and our work well, sitting in our office, discussing a startup and work for the startup, saying words to the effect of: “I’m sitting here talking about this job because I know the systems you build are robust.” Thanks @spotlightkid, you made my [...]
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The FishDelish Project: Open linked data for species description

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: April 25, 2012
Events today made me realise that we never blogged about FishDelish here, a project that we performed June 2010 to July 2011, in partnership with the University of Manchester’s School of Computer Science (UMCS) and the FishBase Information and Research Group Inc (FIN), a not-for-profit NGO.
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Finished Jorum contracts

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: April 16, 2012
Hedtek are pleased to announce that they have finished their third contract for Jorum, an Open Educational Resource repository run by Mimas, a JISC funded National Data Centre. As the major part of that work we designed and developed a very clean user interface to replace Jorum’s rather arcane and frustrating user interface. The new [...]
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Hedtek’s new developer blog and some newly open sourced gems

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: April 11, 2012
Announcing that we’ve started a developer blog for notes on the technologies we use, experiments we have performed, etc. One post is on Ember.js , which we are using in a current development project.  As part of that project, we have recently open sourced four gems that we are using to help us deploy Ember in [...]
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Work in progress for Jorum

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: February 2, 2012
Jorum is a national repository that provides Open Educational Resources. Over the past five months, JISC has been funding Jorum to engage in extensive technical work aimed at bringing a better user experience to Jorum’s users. This post, adapted from a post written for the Jorum blog, describes work we’ve been engaged in to assist in bringing [...]
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DSpace REST API testing

By David Workman | Published: November 25, 2011
While funded by JISC via Mimas, Hedtek has recently providing assistance to Jorum, the UK’s Open Educational Resources repository; this varies from architectural to development assistance that is aimed at transforming the Jorum user experience. Jorum is built on the DSpace repository, and part of our work involves building a new front end to Jorum. For [...]
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#uniproj and #wikiquals

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: October 15, 2011
Here I am at the University Project weekend in London, sitting with Fred Garnett, blogging at the wikiquals table in the ‘Pro action cafe‘ where we are talking about learners self-organising and self-certifying their qualifications. We’ve just had a few rounds of people throwing around and discussing ideas of where wikiquals should go/be/do. So as [...]
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Playing with OpenURL Router Data

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: June 8, 2011
Tony Hirst recently posted on experimenting with processing a reasonably large data set with *NIX command line tools. The data set is the recently published OpenURL Router Data. Inspired by this post I wondered what I could hack up in Ruby to process the same data, and if I could do this processing without a [...]
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JISC personalisation projects survey and synthesis

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: January 9, 2011
Hedtek and Sero Consulting Ltd were recently commissioned by JISC to perform a survey and synthesis of the outputs of JISC-funded  personalisation projects. The results of this work appear at personalisation.jisc.ac.uk. A total of 25 funded projects were examined. Project outputs included analysis, user research, prototyping, service development and examination of key technical and operational issues. [...]
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Scaling and productising MOSAIC search and recommendation services

By Mark van Harmelen | Published: October 10, 2010
van Harmelen, M. Scaling and productising MOSAIC search and recommendation services. 26 September 2010. Commissioned by JISC, this document provides an architectural approach for MOSAIC search and recommendation services. The approach incorporates iterative cycles of development, where each cycle is preceded by an agile needs-driven approach to determine the next targets for implementation and roll out.
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