Submissions to the IWMW 2007 Competition
Posted by Brian Kelly on 12 Jul 2007
I have commented previously that one of the innovations at this year’s Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW 2007) is the innovation competition.
The aim of the innovation competition is to provide an environment for participants (and other interested parties) to provide examples of lightweight innovations which may be of interest to workshop participants. We hope this will provide an opportunity for those who submit examples to benefit from the staff development his may provide and the feedback which may be received. We also hope that the examples which are provided will provide a context to stimulate discussion about the relevance of such work within an institutional context. Will the examples be sustainable, for example, and will they scale up to large scale usage? And what about the implications of copyright, data protection, etc.?
I’m pleased to say that, to date, we have received eleven submissions. In order to gain feedback from a wide audience and open up the discussions I will be posting a series of articles will a brief summary of the submissions and invite your comments.
Note also that we are still accepted submissions, so if you have something to contribute, please view the submission template and provide the relevant details (I suggest as a comment to this post in the master UK Web Focus blog). Please, though, do not simply submit an example of work you have already completed – this is unlikely to pass the “cool’ criteria! You should also note that the title is “innovation competition”. You do not necessarily have to submit a mashup, or even an IT solution. A witty solution, a joke, etc. might work – how about, for example, a pastiche of last year’s social event (featuring your’s truly).
Phil Wilson said
ah! I thought you’d stopped and I’d forgotten before! Maybe I’ll have a quick bash.
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Sebastian Rahtz said
Name and Affiliation
Sebastian Rahtz
Oxford University Computing Services
sebastian.rahtz@oucs.ox.ac.uk
Title
Alternative course discovery using calendars and maps
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/calendar.xml
http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/oxcri/conted.xml
User Benefits
People who want to attend Oxford University
continuing education and computing service courses
can find what they want to looking at a calendar
or consulting a map, as well as the usual methods.
Ease
Mostly simple XSL transformations from Atom RSS
and XCRI records. The XCRI was scraped from
web pages.
Coolness!
Look, it’s cool to use standards, OK?
Background to the Work
This work is part of the ongoing JISC XCRI effort. We
have a mini-project to look at XCRI for continuing
education, and I wanted to show we could do more
than just generate dull XML files.
Openness
The code will be released under an OSS licence as part
of the JISC work.
ahndunk said
Okey, I will post my submission soon!