Working For Nothing

I’m sure you are all aware of the phrase “if you pay peanuts you get monkeys”, but what about if you pay nothing at all? It seems this is what many of us are working for and may not even know about it.

The Semantic Web and BIG DATA

This week I have been learning about the ‘semantic web’, what it is and what it has helped to achieve.

Can Anybody Hear Me?

This week I was looking at the topic of the digital voice. Before I could specify the area I wanted to focus in on I needed to gain a broader knowledge of what was meant by the ‘digital voice’.

Open Access

Before I can try to talk to you about open access I needed to be certain about it myself. So I set about the World Wide Web in search of an explanation that I both understood and could translate into my own words. 

Along my search I started at the most obvious, Wikipedia, which told me open access was: “the practice of providing unrestricted access via the internet to peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles” and is also “increasingly being provided to theses, scholarly monographs and book chapters”.