The project has had two formal partners since its inception:
The SIMILE Project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The SIMILE project, based at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and MIT Libraries was focused on developing robust, open source tools that empower users to access, manage, visualize and reuse digital assets. It was initially funded by the Mellon Foundation and its work is being continued by a community of developers and users.
- The SIMILE Project: http://simile.mit.edu/
- The SIMILE Widgets Community Page and Wiki: http://www.simile-widgets.org/
University of Technology Sydney
The University of Technology Sydney is a project partner with a distinctive perspective on the links between teaching, research and professional practice and which offers students “an integrated exposure to professional practice through dynamic and multifaceted modes of practice-oriented education”. Professor Nicky Solomon of UTS is member of the project team, and is Director of ‘Remaking Practice’ an ARC funded project which builds on the work of Ensemble.
- UTS Website: http://www.uts.edu.au/
Subsequently, we have also worked closely with:
The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI)
The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an effort to create an international standard for describing data from the social and behavioral sciences. Expressed in XML, the DDI metadata specification now supports the entire research data life cycle. DDI metadata accompanies and enables data conceptualization, collection, processing, distribution, discovery, analysis, repurposing, and archiving. PhD student Agustina Martinez Garcia is working closely with the DDI in her research and development project into the potential of semantic technologies to support qualitative inquiry.
- DDI Alliance Website: http://www.ddialliance.org/
Grupo de Investigación de Tecnología Educativa, at the Universidad de Murcia, Spain
The Educational Technology Research Group from the University of Murcia (Spain), is a work and research group of educationalists, located in Murcia and specializing in educational technologies and their implementation on different learning processes. During 2009, Dr Maria del Mar Sanchez from GITE was a visiting research fellow attached to the Ensemble project, working at the Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies and the Faculty of Education, Community and Leisure at Liverpool John Moores University.
- GITE Website (English): http://www.um.es/gite/
