“Jisc’s Framework for digital transformation (DT) in higher education, offers a comprehensive approach to managing the dramatic change which is taking place in all our lives now that the world of business and work is largely driven by digital technologies.” I wrote this in an earlier post about our work to develop a library view, […]
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Do universities need digital strategies? As cuts in UK higher education start to bite, it has become clear that all universities should act strategically in deploying digital technologies. Jisc’s Framework for digital transformation in higher education, offers a comprehensive approach to managing the dramatic change which is taking place in all our lives now that […]
Jisc has been at the forefront of supporting digital transformation in UK higher education through our digital transformation framework and toolkit. We are starting a new phase of this work to design library pathways into the framework so that libraries can use it to amplify and enhance their role and impact in digital transformation within their […]
Taking bold steps A recent THE article by Sorin Adam Matei proposes that academia could invest in building its own LLMs to consume data from verifiable sources. I’m wondering if the UK university community thinks this is something we should invest in to ensure we feel confident that this valuable technology fulfills sector requirements. Governments […]
Back in November we were joined by about 180 people to discuss how the Higher Education library community might be bolder in providing machine ready collections, in support of research, and to feel more confident with the impending introduction of AI into the community. You can see a recording with transcript of that session, but […]
As reported in a previous post A couple of weeks ago we were pleased to be joined by 180 people for our Getting Your Collections AI Ready webinar. The focus of the session was on how academic libraries can get their collections online in forms consumable by people and machines. Though AI was in […]
Recent podcast draws the crowds Last Wednesday we were pleased to be joined by 180 people for our Making Your Collections AI Ready webinar. The focus of the session was on how academic libraries can get their collections online in forms consumable by people and machines. We heard from Ines Byrne of the National […]
Is AI for me? Perspectives from the humanities, is a mini-series that is part of the Jisc Research Talk podcasts. There’s been an outburst of AI talk over the last year, but it’s not often that we hear about what it means to engage with AI in the context of the humanities. Over six episodes, […]
Map data and developing a critical gaze I was pleased to talk with Prof Leif Isaksen, Professor in Digital Humanities at the University of Exeter, about computational approaches to research and some of the potential impacts of AI on Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS). The research talk podcast forms part of a miniseries […]
The fear of AI The focus of this post is the fears we have of AI technologies and what we might do about them. Having spoken to lots of librarians about AI, it is clear that many are concerned about the technologies but do not have time to address their fears in practical ways. Policy […]