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A play with the Talis Aspire API

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:35:39 +0000

I wanted to have a go with the Talis Aspire API and see what potential it had and how easy it was to use. Talis Aspire is a Reading List system with the key purposes being, firstly, a method to inform libraries which books and resources they need to buy, secondly, a unified way to access lists and content, especially as more and more stuff is online.

But the array of systems across a University delivering the online ‘student experience’ is staggering and often confusing, hence the need to to investigate ways of embedding data from one system (such as this) in to other systems. My end goal is to display a list on a webpage outside of the Aspire website.

Dev8D

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:20:48 +0000

Tomorrow, Tuesday 14th February is the start of Dev8D 2012. A three day event for developers working in UK Higher Education. Which I am not really one, but don’t tell anybody and we should be ok. It’s an event that is on steroids : last time I went, my brain was pounded with more information to digest in 30 minutes than I would normally expect to receive in an entire day. It’s also bloody fantastic. I’m chuffed I can go this year.

Dev8D

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:07:22 +0000

This isn’t a comprehensive review of dev8d, checkout the twitter stream (that link uses twapperkeeper by the way, the guy who created it was there and it was great talking to him), and wiki for and much else on the web for what went on.