Supporting student transitions to placement and work: developing a new self-identity
Journal Article
Webster, G., Smith, S., & Smith, C. (2016)
Supporting student transitions to placement and work: developing a new self-identity. New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 11(1),
Moves towards the marketisation of higher education together with concerns over the challenges of graduate employment have led to an increased prioritisation of students under...
Learning for the Workplace: Exploring professional identity in search of meaningful alternatives to student work placement
Presentation / Conference
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, Cardiff, Wales
Moves towards the marketisation of higher education have led to greater priority being placed upon students undertaking relevant work experience while they study. Recognising ...
Workshop on Interactivity in Healthcare Systems (IHS).
Conference Proceeding
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 i...
CURIOS: connecting community heritage through Linked Data.
Conference Proceeding
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). https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675247
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 pres...
Cultural resilience: The production of rural community heritage, digital archives and the role of volunteers.
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://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2015.05.002
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 ...
CURIOS Mobile: Linked Data exploitation for tourist mobile apps in rural areas
Conference Proceeding
Nguyen, H. H., Beel, D., Webster, G., Mellish, C., Pan, J. Z., & Wallace, C. (2015)
CURIOS Mobile: Linked Data exploitation for tourist mobile apps in rural areas. In T. Supnithi, T. Yamaguchi, J. Z. Pan, V. Wuwongse, & M. Buranarach (Eds.), Semantic Technology : 4th Joint International Conference, JIST 2014. , (129-145). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15615-6_10
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 t...
A lightweight treatment of Inexact dates
Conference Proceeding
Nguyen, H. H., Taylor, S., Webster, G., Jekjantuk, N., Mellish, C., Pan, J. Z., …Byrne, K. (2015)
A lightweight treatment of Inexact dates. In V. Wuwongse, M. Buranarach, T. Supnithi, T. Yamaguchi, & J. Z. Pan (Eds.), Semantic Technology : 4th Joint International Conference, JIST 2014 Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 9–11, 2014 Revised Selected Papers. , (187-193). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15615-6_14
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 pro...
The geographies of community history digital archives in rural Scotland
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 he...
POWKist: visualising cultural heritage linked datasets.
Conference Proceeding
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 ava...
Determining content for unknown users: lessons from the MinkApp case study.
Conference Proceeding
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 int...