Partners
We work with a wide range of partners on both software development and consultancy assignments. Open source software has developed to a large extent by the formation of loose knit alliances of companies and individuals coming together in a focussed way to solve a particular problem. We have taken this philosophy forwards in all aspects of our work and are fortunate that Sheffield has many like minded people and companies with complimentary expertise. However, we don't limit ourselves to local collaboration and have built up an extensive network of associates both nationally and internationally.
Below is a non-exhaustive list of some of the partners we've worked with recently. We're always looking to build new alliances, so if you'd like to work with us in future, please get in touch.
Recent Partners include:
John Winkley of AlphaPlus iworked with us on a project for Becta aimed at developing a national resource discovery and delivery strategy.
CETIS is a major centre for research into educational standards with a strong focus on UK Further & Higher Education. We worked with CETIS on the Transcoder project and on the drafting of BS8788.
Nicky Ferguson worked for 10 years at Bristol University's ILRT (Institute for Learning and Research Technology) and was involved in a range of projects and services including SOSIG - the social sciences gateway for Uk Higher Education. We have had the pleasure of working with Nicky on a number of projects for the JISC, Becta and others.
Collections Trust were partners in the k-int led CenturyShare project. We have built on this relationship to collaborate extensively on the development of an open technical infrastructure - the 'culture grid' - to underpin a new and innovative approach to promoting a more open, democratic and participative approach to cultural collections.
David Jennings is a consultant in the worlds of usability, elearning and cultural media. Originally based in Sheffield (where Neil was one of his original "Associates"), he is now based in London. David has collaborated with us on a number of projects including those which involve the drafting of standards and, more recently, on the BBC CenturyShare project.
EUN is a not-for-profit consortium of 28 ministries of education in Europe created in 1997, providing major European education portals for teaching, learning and collaboration. We have worked with EUN on consultancy projects for Becta, CEN Workshop agreements and have contributed to the IMS Learning Object Discovery and Exchange (LODE) Project Group which is chaired by David Massart of EUN.
Gooii haver an excellent reputation for innovative user interface design and are a key partner in the BBC CenturyShare project, designing the 'timeline' interface.
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
The Catholic University of Leuven is one of the oldest Universities in Europe. It is also close to some excellent breweries. We worked with Erik Duval and his colleagues on the drafting of two CEN Workshop Agreements (CWAs).
Mike Collett of Schemeta is well known in the Standards world as chair of CEN/TC 353 - Information and Communication Technologies for Learning, Education and Training - and former chair of BSI's equivalent committee - IST/43. We have worked with Schemeta on a wide range of projects in the educational sector and have also set up a joint venture - the Vocabulary Management Group.
Seb works both as an independent consultant and as executive secretary of ALT (the Association for Learning Technology). We have collaborated with Seb on a wide range of projects for JISC, Becta and BSI.
We have had informal links with a number of UKOLN staff, past and present, for a number of years and are delighted to be collaborating with then, along with the National Centre for Text Mining, as part of the JISC-funded 'FixRep' project. The project looks at approaches to metadata triage and enhancement in a variety of repositoriy contexts.
Vocabulary Management Group (vocman) is an independent company jointly owned by Knowledge Integration Ltd and Schemeta Ltd. We support a wide range of vocman activities. mainly as subcontractors.