[Myexperiment-discuss] SKUA, MyExperiment and Simal experimenting with open Social

[Ross Gardler]

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As some people know, representatives of SKUA, MyExperiment and OSS Watch 
met to discuss collaboration earlier this week.

I "hijacked" the afternoon slot to introduce Open Social as the way to 
facilitate some of this collaboration. I also threw Simal (an OSS Watch 
project registry tool) into the ring as an interested participant in 
Open Social work.

I just blogged about the outcome [1]. Perhaps most interesting to 
readers here is:

"Simal, has social network information contained within it (people 
connected by projects or standards adopted in those projects). I pointed 
out that this data could be exposed through, and complimented by Open 
Social gadgets from both the MyExperiment and SKUA projects. I also 
observed that Simal is not at all unusual in this within the JISC 
project space."

"Last night I succesfully embedded the MyExperiment TagCloud gadget into 
the SVN head version of Simal."

"Does your project have any interest in working with Open Social? Would 
it be useful for you to consume social network data? Can you publish 
useful social network data?

Please join us on the OSS Watch Community Development list where we 
would be happy to help you explore and experiment with these ideas. "

I look forward to taking this further with SKUA and MyExperiment. My 
next task within Simal is to create an open social gadget that exposes 
social network data about participants in projects.

Ross

[1] 
http://involve.jisc.ac.uk/wpmu/oss-watch/2008/02/29/lightweight-project-collaboration-participants-wanted/
[2] 
http://wiki.oss-watch.ac.uk/community-development_mailing_list?action=show&redirect=community-development
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Ross Gardler                           University of Oxford
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