Archive for February, 2010

MAGIC continue to support CREW

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

The test collaboration from MAGIC (series of postgraduate-level lecture courses in mathematics, employing the Access Grid videoconferencing technology) to integrate CREW has been agreed to extend until September 2011.

Links: MAGIC main site: http://maths.dept.shef.ac.uk/magic

JISC Conference Lunchtime Demo

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

CREW and some related projects are being demosnstrated as part of the JISC 2010 Conference, 13th April 2010, during their lunchtime demonstration slot: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2010/04/jisc10/programme/demos_lunch.aspx

“Towards PowerPoint 2.0: Examples using the CREW virutal research environment” Collaborative Research Events on the Web (CREW) creates a framework for researches that integrates a video conferencing environment with event data harvesting. Results from a multi-site mathematics post-graduate lecture series, as well as the MIMAS Intute data harvesting process will be demonstrated. Automated semantic annotation has been produced for 4000+ events and 530+ hours of seminars.

Registration is free but must be done on-line. #CritterVRE #jisc10