A closer look at content migration
Redesigning your existing website is an exciting time. Kieren Pitts takes a look at one aspect of the project that is often given only cursory attention…. content migration.
Published on 11 Dec 09 under Briefings | No Comments »
What is Open Source?
We use a lot of open source software for our websites and systems, but what exactly does “open source” mean? Ed Crewe, Senior Technical Developer, explains…
What is it?
Open source is part of the ‘open movement’ which aims to provide open access to the source materials and knowledge with which high technology is developed. It shares [...]
Published on 4 Dec 09 under Briefings | No Comments »
Asking the ‘bigger picture’ questions… Thinking about a sign language-based survey tool
History is a funny thing. At its simplest, it’s easy to understand. History leaves evidence, which is read by historians, who tell you what happened and when. Simple? Well no… Because even if you know lots of things that happened, and when they happened, it still only gives you little bits of information. It doesn’t [...]
Published on 20 Nov 09 under Briefings | 1 Comment »
Top tips for content editing
Here are some tips for making your website clear and easy to read. You’ll also find some useful links on how people read on the web and how to test the readability of your web pages.
Published on 16 Nov 09 under Briefings | No Comments »
ILRT people: Virginia Knight
Virginia is a Senior Technical Researcher within the ID group and has worked at ILRT since 1998.
Virginia’s academic background is in Classics, but after doing a PhD at Cambridge she worked for several years with British Census data, both historical (at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population) and present-day (at the University of [...]
Published on 10 Nov 09 under ILRT people | No Comments »
What can social bookmarking do for you?
What is social bookmarking and why would I use it?
Social bookmarking is a way of creating and collecting bookmarks on a website rather than within your browser. This means you can access your bookmarks from anywhere, classify and annotate them, and share them with other people. You can also see how popular your website is [...]
Published on 27 Oct 09 under Briefings | No Comments »
A quick look at Second Life and other Virtual Worlds
What we’ve been doing in Second Life
The project we’ve been working on uses this 3D environment to recreate a Victorian model of an earlier Roman building – the Pompeii Court, which was in turn reconstructed as part of the original Sydenham Crystal Palace exhibition in the 1850s.
Many academic institutions have used Second Life for similar [...]
Published on 4 Sep 09 under Briefings | No Comments »
ILRT wins two ‘green’ awards
Project Manager, Sarah Agarwal, recently won the University of Bristol’s “Environmental Hero” award 2009. This is given to just one member of staff each year. Sarah’s particular contribution has been the promotion of Fairtrade within the University. The awards are given under the Green Impact Awards scheme.
ILRT also won a Silver Award to recognise our [...]
Published on 3 Sep 09 under News and updates | 1 Comment »
Developing the Plone CMS
On an unusually hot and sunny weekend, Ed Crewe spent three days stuck inside tapping away on a computer, surrounded by plates of half eaten food and glasses of half drunk beer. This was the Bristol Balloon Sprint, a gathering of independent developers who volunteer their time to help develop the Plone open source CMS.
There [...]
Published on 3 Sep 09 under News and updates | No Comments »
BBC Countryfile Magazine praise for Amateur Entomologists’ Society website
The Amateur Entomologists’ Society (AES) website has been named as one of the best wildlife websites in Britain by BBC Countryfile Magazine.
The site has been run by our own Kieren Pitts (as an unpaid volunteer) since 2005 and the site was relaunched in its present form in April 2008. During the relaunch Kieren worked with [...]
Published on 3 Sep 09 under News and updates | No Comments »