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Plans to Cross Search Related Content

We held another very productive Steering Committee meeting last month with Malcolm Raggett joining us from SOAS. Malcolm gave really useful input drawn from SOAS experiences in offering content collections online and issues such as problems with the scalability of … Continue reading

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Visualising China Demo at JISC Conference 2010

Earlier this month Simon Price and Nikki Rogers attended the JISC Conference 2010 in London. Nikki, the Visualising China project manager, was an invited panel member on a discussion session about maximising creativity of software developers and lessons learnt from … Continue reading

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Linking the Knowledge Base to External Content

The Visualising China demo now links to all the images, plus some metadata, in the Historical Photographs of China collection (which was first put online at http://chp.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/). One of the goals in this project is to allow end-users (researchers and … Continue reading

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Developing the branding concept for Visualising China

To complement the project developer team we have web designer Ben Hayes on board to help us develop our designs for the Visualising China tool. Stuart Church, our user experience consultant, gave invaluable help earlier in the project to develop … Continue reading

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Early Demo and Discussion with Steering Committee Members

An excellent meeting took place yesterday, bringing together key players in the Visualising China project, including our mentor, Grant Young from the University of Cambridge. Grant is providing a very useful “critical friend” role on the project. Before Christmas the … Continue reading

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Visualising China at the JISC eContent Programme Meeting

Last month Simon Price and Nikki Rogers attended the first Programme Meeting for the 11 new projects funded by the new JISC e-Content Programme. We had several useful discussions with other projects such as those who like Visualising China are … Continue reading

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