1. Open Development, Innovations,
and IDS Knowledge Services
Duncan Edwards
Information Systems Innovations Manager
Institute of Development Studies
@duncan_ids

2. Research
Teaching
Knowledge Services

3. Supporting evidence based
decision making in policy making
and practice

5. Where were we?
Traditional approaches to online research communications

7. API Registrants and Partners
August 2012
200+ registered

8. CMS Plug-ins / HTML Widgets
Open source plug-ins and widgets to enable easy use of IDS KS content

9. Semantic concept search content map
example shows search for “nutrition” & more detail of one node – utilising
Yahoo semantic analysis tools

10. Mobile / Tablet applications
Mashing up data from World Bank, Eldis, Bing
*all source code freely available

11. Contextualisation
Translation and revision of materials

12. Linking related content
Using semantic technologies to help bring relevant
content into discussion. Our theory of change considers debate and
discussion at critical part of increasing impact of research knowledge

13. Where are we going?
How do Open Approaches help us get there?

14. Duncan Edwards
d.edwards@ids.ac.uk
Twitter: duncan_ids
api.ids.ac.uk