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Nick Jackson commented on the post, Next, on the site Learning Landscapes 6 days, 14 hours ago
I love some of the concepts, but the rooms look incredibly crowded with chairs.
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Nick Jackson commented on the post, APMS Progress Update, on the site ON Course 6 days, 18 hours ago
“how the marketing information about programmes is stored in the system and made available to be published on the Univerity’s website”
XCRI is the answer. Don’t waste time creating a custom export or additional […]
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Nick Jackson wrote a new post, We’re listening., on the site Orbital 2 weeks, 5 days ago
We love hearing feedback, so as part of our v0.1 release of Orbital we decided to make giving feedback super easy. We’ve done this using the tools provided by UserVoice, giving us a single box which lets you […]
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Nick Jackson wrote a new post, QR Codes, on the site Development in Jeans and a T-Shirt 4 weeks, 1 day ago
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Nick Jackson wrote a new post, Data-driven. Iterative. Awesome., on the site Development in Jeans and a T-Shirt 1 month, 1 week ago
If you’re a member of staff at the University you will soon be hearing loads more about the Directory, the planned replacement for the University’s phone search system and staff profiles.
Whilst the Directory […]
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Nick Jackson wrote a new post, It’s like having a whole new research partner…, on the site Orbital 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Orbital, as you know, has many cool features in the pipeline which are designed to make research easier. From keeping tabs on your data and helping you find what you’re looking for through to helping you build […]
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Nick Jackson wrote a new post, Data, Data Everywhere…, on the site Orbital 2 months, 1 week ago
For a project which is essentially about storing data, we’ve not actually done that much talking about it. This may seem sensible to some — after all, everybody knows what data is, don’t they?
It turns out that […]
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Nick Jackson wrote a new post, Eating your own dog food: Building a repository with API-driven development, on the site Orbital 2 months, 1 week ago
This is a proposal for a paper at the Open Repositories 2012 conference in July.
The JISC-funded Orbital project is building on earlier work at the University of Lincoln to develop a state-of-the-art research […]
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Nick Jackson wrote a new post, The Toolchain: First Pass, on the site Orbital 3 months ago
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Nick Jackson wrote a new post, The Toolchain: First Pass, on the site Development in Jeans and a T-Shirt 3 months ago
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Nick Jackson wrote a new post, Why Orbital is all about the API, on the site Orbital 3 months, 2 weeks ago
One of the interesting things about Orbital is its use of an API-driven development approach. In traditional, API-less applications your end-to-end system would look something like this:This is all well […]
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Nick Jackson wrote a new post, Servers, Servers Everywhere…, on the site Orbital 3 months, 2 weeks ago
One of the cool things about Orbital from my point of view is that I’m not just responsible for putting together a bit of software that runs on a web server, but also for designing the reference platform which you […] -
Nick Jackson wrote a new post, Dev8D is here again…, on the site Development in Jeans and a T-Shirt 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Hello all,
The ever popular JISC sponsored Dev8D event is just 1 month away now. Dev8D is the largest event of its kind in the UK and it is your only opportunity this year to get 3 days of free training in […]
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Nick Jackson wrote a new post, Jenkins, build my software!, on the site Orbital 3 months, 4 weeks ago
Orbital is going to be a big bit of software, with lots of things doing lots of other things. A big part of putting together such a large bit of software – alongside our Pivotal Tracker instance – is the regular pr […]
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Nick Jackson commented on the post, Lync Web Scheduler, on the site SharePoint & Office 365 4 months ago
How does this fit alongside native calendaring apps like iCal on OS X?
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Nick Jackson wrote a new blog post: Forecast: Cloudy 5 months ago
With the Orbital project we’re looking at taking a leap into the brave new world (well, at least as far as university projects go) of cloud hosting. Now, I hate the word “cloud” when used to describe most services because people bander it about like it’s some magical world-fixing technology when in actual fact all they [...] -
Nick Jackson wrote a new blog post: Research Data vs Research Data 5 months ago
As I’ve been looking closer at various requirements for Orbital, as well as other research data management projects, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that Orbital has taken a different tack when it comes to defining what research data actually is. Whilst not a problem, it does lead to a certain disconnect when talking to people with a [...] -
Nick Jackson commented on the blog post Let’s Look At Data 5 months, 1 week ago
There would be no logical reason why not – Orbital should be able to store both structured data and unstructured documents, so if an application needs to get hold of data then it can either talk directly to the Orbital data stores or request a document. One thing we want to be able to achieve [...]
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