Category Archives: aliss engine

Everyone’s talking about Assets

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Andy

There’s quite a lot of policy discussion currently focusing on the ‘assets approach’ and the potential of empowering individuals and communities in Scotland. For example, an ‘Assets Alliance’ held an inaugural session in Glasgow in December 2010; the LTCAS Annual … Continue reading →

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A technical workshop on community curation of ALISS resources

Posted on March 14, 2011 by peter

One of the things that has had us thinking hard is the question of how communities of interest would ‘curate’ (i.e. sort and make sense of) the information on resources that was posted to the Engine by helpful members of … Continue reading →

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Joining the dots

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Andy

Back in the days when there was no web, Tim Berners-Lee wrote a memo about the possibilities of using hypertext links to name pieces of information that could be linked together on the internet. He saw that there was great … Continue reading →

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Everything’s in ‘moderation’

Posted on December 9, 2010 by peter

Search is perhaps one of the most magical-seeming things about using the web – the power at your fingertips (no wand required), the speed of response (faster than a speeding bullet, surely?), the amazing diversity of information that you can … Continue reading →

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ALISS and Linked Data

Posted on December 1, 2010 by peter

Andy is away down in London, presenting to the Online Information Conference 2010. He’s been part of a ‘linked data’ session. This is nearly as geekish as ALISS is likely to get (not sure whether he’ll have mentioned ‘semantic web’ … Continue reading →

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Collaborative Development of the ALISS Engine

Posted on November 29, 2010 by peter

toot-toot! We are all really pleased to be able (finally!) to note that further work on the ALISS Engine has started. We have a lot to do, to create a workable kit of parts, before the close of the financial … Continue reading →

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On being Open

Posted on October 25, 2010 by peter

We like to think that we’re ‘Open’ – are we? Enough? In public we’ve been saying this for quite a while now: Our May 2010 ‘Blueprint’ Board Paper suggested an overall blueprint for an ALISS Service Framework, and identified necessary … Continue reading →

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The Engine: collaborative development & testing in use

Posted on June 6, 2010 by peter

Last week (the 03rd. June) we had a good day with a selection of existing providers of information directories. Andy provided the context, then Derek outlined the Engine’s main technical characteristics, and suggested options for working together to test it … Continue reading →

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The ALISS Engine

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Andy

At the very centre of the ALISS concept lies the Engine – the infrastructure that we want to create to bring self management information together in one place and make it more findable. Over the months we’ve been fine-tuning our … Continue reading →

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The ALISS Engine

Posted on February 5, 2010 by derek

This is the fifth and last post in a short series giving the background to the ALISS engine design. It sets out some of the main issues, and thoughts on how we can address them. Continue reading →

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