Outputs (31)

Learning for the Workplace: Exploring professional identity in search of meaningful alternatives to student work placement (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Webster, G., Smith, S., & Smith, C. (2016, December). Learning for the Workplace: Exploring professional identity in search of meaningful alternatives to student work placement. Paper presented at Society for Research into Higher Education 2016

Moves towards the marketisation of higher education have led to greater priority being placed upon students undertaking relevant work experience while they study. Recognising a strong demand for placements, the e-Placement Scotland project set out to... Read More about Learning for the Workplace: Exploring professional identity in search of meaningful alternatives to student work placement.

Workshop on Interactivity in Healthcare Systems (IHS). (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hanson, V. L., Webster, G., & Dennis, M. (2015). Workshop on Interactivity in Healthcare Systems (IHS). In Human-Computer Interaction–INTERACT 2015 (677-678). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22723-8_98

We are all living longer with average life expectancy increasing across the globe [1]. However, chronic conditions such as heart disease, strokes and cancer, coupled with an increasing global obesity problem still cause a growing number of premature... Read More about Workshop on Interactivity in Healthcare Systems (IHS)..

CURIOS: connecting community heritage through Linked Data. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Webster, G., Nguyen, H., Beel, D. E., Mellish, C., Wallace, C. D., & Pan, J. (2015). CURIOS: connecting community heritage through Linked Data. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (639-648).

The CURIOS project explores how digital archives for rural community heritage groups can be made more sustainable so that volunteer members can maintain a lasting digital presence. It is developing software tools to help remote rural communities to c... Read More about CURIOS: connecting community heritage through Linked Data..

Cultural resilience: The production of rural community heritage, digital archives and the role of volunteers. (2015)
Journal Article
Beel, D. E., Wallace, C. D., Webster, G., Nguyen, H., Tait, E., Macleod, M., & Mellish, C. (2017). Cultural resilience: The production of rural community heritage, digital archives and the role of volunteers. Journal of Rural Studies, 54, 459-468. https:/

The following paper addresses a lacuna in the literature relating to the concept of resilience. To date, cultural activity in relation to resilient communities has been given little attention and this paper will highlight how the lens of community he... Read More about Cultural resilience: The production of rural community heritage, digital archives and the role of volunteers..

CURIOS Mobile: Linked Data exploitation for tourist mobile apps in rural areas (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nguyen, H. H., Beel, D., Webster, G., Mellish, C., Pan, J. Z., & Wallace, C. (2014, November). CURIOS Mobile: Linked Data exploitation for tourist mobile apps in rural areas. Presented at 4th Joint International Conference, JIST 2014, Chiang Mai, Thailand

As mobile devices proliferate and their computational power has increased rapidly over recent years, mobile applications have become a popular choice for visitors to enhance their travelling experience. However, most tourist mobile apps currently use... Read More about CURIOS Mobile: Linked Data exploitation for tourist mobile apps in rural areas.

A lightweight treatment of Inexact dates (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nguyen, H. H., Taylor, S., Webster, G., Jekjantuk, N., Mellish, C., Pan, J. Z., ap Rheinallt, T., & Byrne, K. (2014, November). A lightweight treatment of Inexact dates. Presented at 4th Joint International Conference, JIST 2014, Chiang Mai, Thailand

This paper presents a lightweight approach to representing inexact dates on the semantic web, in that it imposes minimal ontological commitments on the ontology author and provides data that can be queried using standard approaches. The approach is p... Read More about A lightweight treatment of Inexact dates.

The geographies of community history digital archives in rural Scotland (2015)
Journal Article
Beel, D., Wallace, C., Webster, G., & Nguyen, H. (2015). The geographies of community history digital archives in rural Scotland. Scottish Geographical Journal, 131(3-4), 201-211. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2014.980839

The CURIOS (Cultural Repositories and Information Systems) project has been working with community heritage groups to co-produce sustainable solutions for the production of heritage archives in digital form. This process has produced an opportunity f... Read More about The geographies of community history digital archives in rural Scotland.

POWKist: visualising cultural heritage linked datasets. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kay, A., Webster, G., Beel, D. E., & Nguyen, H. H. (2015). POWKist: visualising cultural heritage linked datasets.

A collaboration between dot.rural at the University of Aberdeen and the iSchool at Northumbria University, POWkist is a pilot-study exploring potential usages of currently available linked datasets within the cultural heritage domain. Many privately... Read More about POWKist: visualising cultural heritage linked datasets..

CURIOS: Web-based presentation and management of linked datasets. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nguyen, H. H., Taylor, S., Webster, G., Jekjantuk, N., Mellish, C., Pan, J. Z., & Rheinallt, T. (2014). CURIOS: Web-based presentation and management of linked datasets. In M. Horridge, M. Rospocher, & J. van Ossenbruggen (Eds.), Proceedings of the ISWC 2

Determining content for unknown users: lessons from the MinkApp case study. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Webster, G., Sripada, S. G., Mellish, C., Melero, Y., Arts, K., Lambin, X., & Wal, R. V. D. (2014). Determining content for unknown users: lessons from the MinkApp case study. In INLG 2014

If an NLG system needs to be put in place as soon as possible it is not always possible to know in advance who the us-ers of a system are or what kind of in-formation will interest them. This paper describes the development of a system and contextual... Read More about Determining content for unknown users: lessons from the MinkApp case study..