King's College London - Completed projects

AIM25 Open Metadata Pathway

Description: £40,000 from JISC to create and publish the AIM25 corpus of authority metadata in Linked Data form (Feb-July 2011)

Architecture for a Shibboleth-Protected iRODS System (ASPiS)

Description: Enhancing the access management functionality provided by iRODS (Rule-Oriented Data management System).

Biophysical Repositories in the Lab (BRIL)

Description: £225,000 from JISC to enhance the repository facilities at the Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics at King's. Outputs are designed to be exploited in other disciplines and institutions (Jun 2008-May 2011).

CHALICE

Description: £68,054 from JISC to create an historic placename gazetteer for the UK based on the English Placenames Survey (Jul 2010-Apr 2011)

Clustering and Enhancing Digital Archives for Research (CEDAR)

Description: £61,378 from JISC to further enhance and embed the East London Theatre Archive (ELTA) into three popular Theatre Studies programmes at Royal Holloway, Nottingham and Sheffield universities (Sep 2009-Feb 2011)

Data Audit Framework Development Project (DAF-D)

Description: Examples for a Data Audit Framework (DAF) adapted to the current needs of data curation activities in UK HE institutions.

Digital Repositories in e-Science Network (DReSNet)

Description: £103,931 from EPSRC to set up a network to address the potential synergy between the fields of e-science and digital repositories (Jun 2008-May 2011)

Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH)

Description: €6m from EU supporting arts and humanities researchers to create, curate, use and disseminate research data (Sep 2008-Feb 2011)

Document and Integrate Ancient Linked Open (DIALOG)

Description: £44,006 from JISC employing Linked Open Data principles to connect geo-situated textual, visual and tabular documents (Feb-Oct 2011)

East London Theatre Archive (ELTA)

Description: Online access to resources of music hall and variety theatres in London's East End during the 19th and 20th centuries

Embedding GeoCrossWalk

Description: Seeking to provide a deeper understanding of how references to place in structured text can be researched and automatically extracted.

Enhanced Ingest to Digital e-research Repositories (EIDeR)

Description: A demonstrator that implements enhanced deposit and ingest processes for the King's institutional repository.

E-Uptake: Enabling Uptake of e-Infrastructure Services

Description: Strategies to increase and widen adoption of e-infrastructure and to significantly increase the user-base of JISC funded services.

FISH.link

Description: £119,413 from JISC to provide a demonstrator of the benefits of publishing data by illustrating how data can be combined, repurposed and reused with attribution and provenance information to promote data sharing (Aug 2010-Jul 2011)

Forensic Investigation of Digital Objects (FIDO)

Description: £33,841 from JISC to investigate the application of digital forensics within the working practices of a UK HE archive (Feb-July 2011)

Forging Restful Services for e-Humanities (FReSH)

Description: Implementing an API to allow people to retrieve data from three archives: the Nineteenth Century Serial Editions, Great Ormond Street archive and a military archive.

Freshwater Information Sharing Network (FISHNet)

Description: £248,424 from JISC to address data management requirements in the freshwater biology community

gMan

Description: Building on the JISC funded projects TEXTvre and LaQuAT, gMan will address how VREs for everyday research in the humanities can be deployed in research infrastructures. Repositories, Digital Asset Management, Architectures, Tools

High Throughput Humanities e-Research (HiTHeR)

Description: Focused on creating a digital system for managing the Nineteenth Century Serials Edition corpus.

Historical Hansards: Completing the Jigsaw

Description: Digitising 50 years of debates from the Upper Chamber of the Northern Ireland Parliament as an extension to the Stormont Papers collection.

Investigating the Significant Properties of Electronic Content Over Time (InSPECT)

Description: Investigation into methods to maintain the authenticity of digital resources across transformation processes and over time.

King's Enterprise Architecture Pilot (KEAP)

Description: Evaluation of the application of an Enterprise Architecture approach to service-orientated development at HE institutions.

Linking and Querying Ancient Texts (LaQuAT)

Description: Developing a software solution to link up diverse data resources for investigating, integrating and publishing inscriptions and papyri from the antique Greek and Roman world.

Measuring Impact under CERIF (MICE)

Description: £47,676 from JISC to examine the potential for encoding systematic and structured information on research impact in the context of the CERIF schema (Feb-July 2011)

MetaTools

Description: Investigation into tools to automatically generate resource discovery metadata in order to ease the metadata 'bottleneck' experienced by repositories.

Motion in Place Platform (MiPP)

Description: £481,177 from AHRC to enable the study of relationships between human movement and site (Mar 2010-Feb 2011)

OCRopodium

Description: £209,899 from JISC to address problems arising from the use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for large-scale digitisation projects that deal with text-based material (Sep 2009-Feb 2011)

Pilot Implementation of the Data Audit Framework (Pi-DAF)

Description: A pilot implementation of the Data Audit Framework.

Preservation Exemplar at King's (PEKin)

Description: Implementing a solution for the management of electronic business records and research materials at King's.

Readiness for REF (R4R)

Description: £350,000 from JISC to investigate how to streamline the REF data gathering exercise (Apr 2009-Jun 2011)

Service-Orientated Architecture for Preservation and Ingest (SOAPI)

Description: Developing an architecture and toolkit for (partially) automating preservation and ingest workflows in digital repositories.

Sherpa DP 2

Description: Developing a preservation service to cater for the requirements of a diverse range of digital and web-based resources.

Shipping Archives and Integrated Logbooks of Ships (SAILS)

Description: £76,484 from JISC to expose and link structured data from WW1 Royal Navy Ship's logs and Service Records to 'put sailors back in their ships' (Jun 2010-Jun 2011)

Significant Properties in the Lab (SPiL)

Description: Addressing Significant Properties in the context of the data, activities and objectives of a working scientific community.

Stormont Parliamentary Hansards: Embedded in Research and Education (SPHERE)

Description: £36,595 from JISC to investigate impact and outreach of the Historical Hansards online collection to stakeholder groups (Nov 2010-Apr 2011)

Strandlines Digital Community

Description: £100,000 from JISC to create an online resource for people living and working around the Strand area of London (Jun 2010-Apr 2011)

Strategic Technologies Group (STG)

Description: £19,625 from JISC to focus on areas of computing that support and interact with research processes and practices (Aug 2009-Mar 2011)

Supporting Productive Queries for Research (SPQR)

Description: £101,039 from JISC to address the integration of heterogeneous data relating to classical antiquity using a linked data approach and based on the Europeana Data Model (Aug 2010-Jul 2011)

TEXTvre

Description: £243,644 from JISC to support the complete lifecycle of research in e-humanities textual studies (Apr 2009-Jun 2011)

Virtual Research Environments Collaborative Landscape Study

Description: Landscape study investigating international developments in Virtual Research Communities (VRCs).

Wisdom of CRIG (WoCRIG)

Description: Support project for the Common Repository Interfaces working Group (CRIG) with an overall aim to ensure successful delivery of the CRIG Workplan.

Work-with-IT

Description: Collecting data on ways in which IT is transforming research and teaching practice in HE and FE institutions.

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