Yearly Archives: 2012
SerenA at ‘Digital Conversations’ British Library
Digital Conversations @ British Library Profiling & Privacy 25th May, 2012 In a quest to provide relevant and personalised experiences for users, institutions are having to navigate the fuzzy intersection between user profiling and privacy. As technology makes the collection and processing of ...
Stephann Makri tells ‘Serendipity Stories’ in Canada
Stephann Makri has recently presented some of his 'serendipity stories' at McGill University in Montréal. These stories are digital video summaries of serendipitous experiences described by academic researchers in interviews - where Stephann asked researchers to provide him with a ...
as luck would have it…
To write a paragraph or two about SerenA, I set out for a stroll to get the grey matter moving. As I walk, the wind blows a raggedy old comic across my path. The pages lie open to reveal the ...
Taking the digital notebook a step further.
In the traditional sense a notebook is a physical object. It has an owner and that owner uses it to capture ideas, thoughts and information. Notebooks are used in a context which are unique to the owner and its contents ...
SerenA Android Development and WebSockets
A large proportion of the SerenA design and development effort in recent weeks has focused on specifying and implementing a prototype user interface to the SerenA system. Mobile, Web, desktop and pubic space interfaces are all potential mediums through which users may interact with ...
The Web of Ideas and Information
On the 18th April, SerenA team member Rob Stewart gave a talk at Ed Lambda on: "Poking the Semantic Web with Haskell". Linked Open Data is an enormous resource for discovering places, people and ideas. It is a resource that ...
CultureHack Scotland
SerenA Team members Rob Stewart and Mel Woods are looking forward to taking part in Culture Hack Scotland//Data Sound+Vision on April 27-28th at SocietyM, Glasgow. The programme looks exciting with data supplied from Arika, Creative Scotland, University of Edinburgh, University ...
SerenA Demo at CIRCLE
Mel Woods, Debbie Maxwell and members of the SerenA team from Heriot Watt will demonstrate the 1st mobile prototype on 7th May 2012, at INSPACE, Informatics Forum, Edinburgh to CIRCLE at the P{e/a}r{i/a}meter mini-symposium. CIRCLE is Creative Interdisciplinary Research ...
My Question Came Up
‘My Question Came Up‘ is one of 28 ‘Stories of Serendipity’ gathered from interviews with researchers for ‘SerenA – Chance Encounters in the Space of Ideas’. The stories aim to contribute to an understanding of Serendipity in research and across ...
EdLambda Meetup
Rob Stewart is this month's speaker at EdLambda Meetup, an Edinburgh group for people interested in functional programming. If your free on 18th April at 7pm, he'll be 'Poking the Semantic Web' covering web 3.0, Open linked data and a ...
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