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An interesting blog post from Universities UK on Open Data at http://blog.universitiesuk.ac.uk/2014/06/24/creating-value-open-data Open data, the principle and practice of making data available for anyone to use, for any purpose, at no cost has the potential to make a major impact on the world around us. Given these prospects, the UK higher education sector is already starting to get on board. A number of universities (Southampton, Oxford, and the Open University, to name a few) have taken on the agenda, and are rapidly developing tools and practices. Sector agencies and bodies such as JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), HESA (Higher Education Statistics Agency), the Research Councils, and the Royal Society are also working in the same direction. To read more: http://blog.universitiesuk.ac.uk/2014/06/24/creating-value-open-data Posted with Blogsy

Taken from http://html5doctor.com/using-aria-in-html/ Using ARIA in HTML Saturday, June 21st, 2014 by Steve Faulkner . ARIA ( WAI-ARIA if you want to be formal) is a set of attributes that you can add to HTML elements . These attributes communicate role, state and property semantics to assistive technologies via the accessibility APIs implemented in browsers. The W3C HTML specification provides information about which ARIA attributes are allowed to be used on each HTML element in section 3.2.7 WAI-ARIA . Posted with Blogsy

How To Tell Search Engines What "Entities" Are On Your Web Pages : "Search engines have increasingly been incorporating elements of semantic search to improve some aspect of the search experience — for example, using schema.org markup to create enhanced displays in SERPs (as in Google’s rich snippets). Elements of semantic search are now present at almost all stages of the search process, and the Semantic Web has played a key role. Read on for more detail and to learn how to take advantage of this opportunity to make your web pages more visible in this evolution of search." 'via Blog this'

The Open Access Button to crowdfund Button 2.0 | Open Access Button blog : A related area to this blog but links to one of the conclusions of the original Webstainability project - as far as possible if research is funded from public money access to the results should be as accessible. To get the Button https://www.openaccessbutton.org/ 'via Blog this' All views in this blog are the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of organisations the author is associated with.

13 Google Search Tricks That Make Life A Whole Lot Easier : "You  think  you know how to Google? You don't know how to Google. Even the most seasoned Googler might not know every tip and trick available with just a few extra keystrokes in the search bar." To read more go to:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/30/google-search-tricks_n_5338470.html 'via Blog this'

My Top 5 List of Free Web Hosts - Yahoo Voices - voices.yahoo.com : Taken from:  http://voices.yahoo.com/my-top-5-list-free-web-hosts-12095296.html?cat=15   Looks at    evaluating several web hosts and comparing them to premium service providers and seeing how they stack up. 'via Blog this'