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ACCOUNTABLESYS  
Discussion and networking list for exploring issues of accountability as they relate to systems and emerging technologies.

AGILE-DEVOPS  
Discussion about adopting and implementing Agile ways of working and DevOps working practices and tools within a University

AHRCDIGITALTRANSFORMATIONS  
A focused email list for holders of awards in the AHRC's Digital Transformations programme, so that we can share information.

AI4FM-INFO  
AI4FM is a project aimed at using AI techniques to learn from human users how to discharge Proof Obligations that arise in typical formal method applications. This list will keep people informed of progress.

AI4SD  
This email list will support the EPSRC Network+ in AI 4 Scientific Discovery www.ai4science.network

ALLIANCE-ANNOUNCE  
List for general announcements for the Alliance for Permanent Access.

ALT-NORTHEAST  
A list for members of the North East Learning Environments (NELE) group to enhance communication and collaboration amongst the group members. Set up in 2000 the group was formed by the HE institutions of Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Teesside and Sunderland in order to help choose a VLE. To date we include all feeder FE institutions into these Universities and invite guests from other institutions in the locale.

BILETA-NEWS  
News bulletin of the British and Irish Law, Education & Technology Association (BILETA)

BLACKBOARD-MOBILE  
This list is used by the Blackboard Mobile user community to collaborate and share ideas, issues and information.

BOX-IN-ACADEMIA  
Deploying and managing Box Cloud Enterprise Storage (www.box.com) in an academic environment comes with the "usual set of challenges". This list is to share ideas and solutions.

BRISSKIT-ANNOUNCE  
Announcement list for BRISSKit project. Please see http://www.brisskit.le.ac.uk for details of national HEFCE/JISC funded project to provide mature open source biomedical research database applications over the Janet and secure NHS networks.

CAMPUSPRESS  
This list is for users of the CampusPress service that provides multi-site WordPress implementations for education. CampusPress are also the providers of the well-known EduBlogs platform.

CAREERS-SERVICES-SOCIAL-MEDIA  
This list is used by Careers Professionals to discuss issues relating to the management and effective use of social media to engage our clients and stakeholders. The group also provides a forum to exchange new ideas and best practice with Careers staff with a particular responsibility for managing their Service's uses of social media.

CERTIFICATE-SERVICE-ANNOUNCE  
A list for important service announcements. https://community.jisc.ac.uk/apps/certificate-service And https://community.jisc.ac.uk/groups/janet-certificate-service

CETIS-PORTFOLIO-DEV  
Discussion list for developers working towards interoperability and portability of e-portfolio and personal development records, in the UK and wider contexts; moving beyond UKLeaP towards practical standards based on real experience. Some technical knowledge may be assumed.

CHOL  
for those involved in collecting and documenting community history on an online platform

CLICKANDGOVIDEO  
This list will primarily discuss and disseminate the educational value and implementation issues behind using streaming video lectures as a teaching method.

COMPUTER-ASSISTED-ASSESSMENT  
The computer-assisted assessment list discusses all aspects of the use of computers to assess student learning. This includes computer and web based assessment, the use of optical mark and character readers and the wider use of technology to support the assessment process.

COMPUTERSCIENCE-SUPPORTHEADS  
For use by heads/managers of computer support groups in computer science departments/schools to discuss policies, software, hardware, staffing.

CROWDSOURCING  
This group is an open discussion forum for those interested in crowd sourcing as an academic methodology. It is likely to include both academics using crowd sourcing, and contributors to crowd sourcing projects.

CUKLT  
A mailing list for individuals working in the UK Conservatoires as e-learning/learning technologies professionals

CYBERTHEATRES  
Cybertheatres is a list devoted to the discussion and exchange on networked performance practices and visions, that is, performances that employ the Internet and / or other networking technologies and techniques as media, but also as hybrid spaces - cybernetic stages. other than networked performance, the list has also an interest in diverse hybrids between theatre / performance and technology.

DATA-AC-UK  
Community discussion, planning and management for data.ac.uk.

DC-PROVENANCE  
This list has been retained 18/08/2021 no one can subscribe to this list and no one can post to this list. Contact help@jisc.ac.uk for all enquiries regarding this list The list will support the Dublin Core Task Group on Metadata Provenance

DIGGING-FOR-DATA  
The Digging for data mailing list is used for helping data users to locate data and to share information on how to find resources on the web.

DIGITAL-MANUAL  
This list is used as a discussion forum by the project team, research participants and network members of the AHRC-funded project: Creation and Publication of the 'Digital Manual': Authority, Authorship and Voice". The online discussions will add to the #contextualisation and dissemination of the project themes.

DIGITALADVENTURE  
This list helps us explore the Digital Adventure in Libraries, Archives, Culture and Arts and related educational services. From LibTech to makerspaces, AI to Z.

DIGITALCOMICS  
This list facilitates the discussion of research and scholarly activity in the field of digital comic studies.

DIGITALJAIL  
The mailing list for project partners forming a consortium for the Digital Jail proposal to the EC FP7 Call 10

DNSSEC-DISCUSS  
Discussion of DNSSEC deployment in JANET sites. Note that the reply-to on this list is set to "sender" rather than "list." This makes it more like most mail lists, but may be different to what you expect from JISCmail. If you wish to carry on a conversation on the list rather than reply to the sender privately, remember to hit "reply to all."

DSTTLONDON  
DSTTLondon is the mailing list of the Digital Scholarship Think Tank of the University of London

E-LEARNING-WALES  
This list is used by those interested in e-learning activity across Wales. Its focus is both pedagogic and technical.

E2EPI  
For discussion of all topics related to end-to-end network performance, including tools used, network monitoring, and end system tuning. Intended audiences are the application end users/communities, network operators/administrators within Janet-connected sites, and academic network researchers

EDUROAM-FE  
Creating a platform for sharing technical expertise and discussing issues and concerns colleges may face when implementing and running eduroam in their campus.

EDUROAM-UK  
This list is for general discussion on matters relating to the Jisc eduroam(UK) service.

ELECTRONICTRANSCRIPTS  
Development in electronic transcripts,including technical development, best practice, links to other HE projects and any issues raised by the initiation of electronic transcripts.

EVALUATION-OF-ONLINE-LEARNING  
This list is designed to support action research in the development of tools to evalauate learning in online virtual environments.

FANSTUDIES  
This list is used by members of the Fan Studies Network, to disseminate information such as calls for papers, publicizing events, and discussion about pertinent topics.

FE-WEB-DEVELOPMENT  
A general support list to offer FE web designers/developers a place to share best practice in the areas of accessibility, usability and design.

FEDORA-UKI  
This list is for UK & Irish users of the Fedora digital repository software. The UK and Ireland User Group holds occasional meetings etc and the list is primarily intended to support domestic arrangements, not technical queries.

GALAXYZOO  
Announcement list for those assisting astronomers via the Galaxy Zoo project. Primarily used to announce new science results and research opportunites.

GOAL  
GOAL is dedicated to the discussion of Open Access practice and policy-making by the worldwide research community (in no order: researchers, librarians, universities, research institutions, research funding agencies, governmental research policy-makers and commercial entities) with the aim of enabling concrete, practical steps to be taken to achieve Open Access.

GOOGLE-APPS  
In light of the specific Sector Agreement negotiated by Janet, this list is for the community to discuss Google Apps for Education and share experiences. Membership of this list includes the UK research and education community and persons from Google.

GRIDPP-STORAGE  
To coordinate deployment and support for GRIDPP2 storage management solutions for both Tier1 and Tier2 sites across the UK, including the provision of feedback into devlopment.

GRIDSITE-DISCUSS  
For discussion of the GridSite website management system. See http://www.gridsite.org/ for more information.

HCIVIDEOW  
This list is to support periodic workshops and online networking of those studying or using video in human computer interaction education. The importance of this has been emphasised by the recent move to online learning due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

HDI  
Academia and Industry discussion forum for researchers interested in Human-Data Interaction

HEALTHCARE-FUTURELEARN  
This list is for partners of FutureLearn working in Health and care to discuss collaborative working.

HELIX-MEDIAL-USER-GROUP  
This list is to support the FE & HE community who use the Helix/Medial Media Library product within their institution. The aim of the list is to allow users to share good practice, ask questions and compare experiences of using the product.

HEWIT-NG  
Mailing list for members of technical staff managing data and voice networks at Welsh Higher Education institutions that are members of the HEWIT group.

HONNI-CONSULTATIVE-GROUP  
This list is used by Queen's University Medical Library to discuss issues related to the development of the Health on the net Northern Ireland (HONNI) website.

HYPHEN-SOCIETY  
Hyphen-Society is committed to the promotion of an understanding of the role of the smallest, atomic, units of meaning in computer based information systems, and the damage caused by failure in this.

I-TRUST  
The aim of iTrust is to provide a forum for cross-disciplinary investigation of the application of trust as a means of establishing security and confidence in the global computing infrastructure, recognizing trust as a crucial enabler for meaningful and mutually beneficial interactions.

JASIG-UK  
This list is intended to support the activities of institutions in the UK working with the international JA-SIG, and its developments such as the Open Source uPortal institutional portal.

JCWM  
To support interactions between web mangers within the Research Councils and their institutes

JISC-UKRDDS  
This list is for participating members of the UK Research Data Discovery Service project. This includes Jisc, DCC, UKDA and pilot institutions and data centres.

JOURN-RESEARCH-PRAC  
A forum for discussion on any matter relating to journalism research. The aim is encourage new research networks, to support the exchange of ideas between journalism researchers, and to encourage growth in a discipline through linkages between journalism researchers who are also practitioners.

LATAMCYBER  
List for those interested in Latin American cultural products created for the Internet, and new discourses, practices and communities generated by such cultural products. See the project blog at: http://latamcyber.wordpress.com/

LOCATIONBASEDGAMES  
Mailing list for researchers and practitioners that are interested in geogames. Please note that we use 'geogames' here as a catch-all term that aims to describe all type of games that are: (1) played "in the wild", (2) use mobile technologies, and (3) incorporate location as part of the gameplay in one way or another. Examples of location-based games include: Pokemon GO, Harry Potter Wizards Unite, etc. The list is open to anyone. Posting to the list is lightly moderated to avoid spam, irrelevant posts, and subscription queries. The list is archived and searchable on the web. The owners do not necessarily approve or endorse content shared on this list. The views expressed in messages are the personal views of the author. The owners accept no liability for any errors, corruption, or omissions that might arise. The JiscMail Service Policy document: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/ describes the way in which we expect the service to be used by subscribers. It sets out (S9) JISC handling of personal data obligations under the Data Protection Act (1998). The mailing list is managed by the Niantic x RIT Geo Games and Media lab. You can access the lab's website at www.rit.edu/nianticgeogameslab.

LSCITS-SYMP  
This is a list of academics, mainly around the UK, interested in the research initiative of Large-Scale Complex IT Systems, and Ultra-Large Scale Systems.

M25-ECHO360  
To discuss issues and best practice relating to the use of the Echo 360 lecture recording system (see http://www.Echo360.com) in HEIs within the London M25 area.

MCSHIB  
The McShib jiscmail list has been established to support the McShib forum, which is a real-time opportunity (usually a meeting) for persons in Scotland interested in Shibboleth. For queries or comments about Shibboleth in general (outwith the Scottish forum) please post to the national (UK) list at JISC-SHIBBOLETH@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

MICROSOFT-365  
In light of the specific Sector Agreement negotiated by Janet, this list is for the community to discuss Microsoft Office 365 and share experiences. Membership of this list includes the UK research and education community and persons from Microsoft. This is a sub-list of OFFICE365-MANAGERS.

MON  
This list is solely for announcements concerning the series of one-day meetings called Mathematics of Networks (MoN). These meetings are devoted to topics such as mathematical modelling of communications, transport, and social networks, dynamic and stochastic phenomena on such networks; graph theory, and data analysis for network applications.

MOOCS-UK  
UK based discussion group to share research and news around the use of Massively Open Online Courses (Moocs)

MOONSHOT-DEV  
A list for discussion of development of the Moonshot software.

MULTI-FACTOR-AUTHENTICATION  
Discussion list about the use and rollout of multi-factor authentication. Primarily for UK federation and other federated uses cases.

NETMON  
This list is for the discussion of issues relating to network monitoring and network performance measurement. It covers all measurement types including flow-monitoring

NGN  
General discussion list for the promotion of computer networking and systems research in the UK

NGS-NEWS  
The National Grid Service provides "free at point of use" access to grid computing resources for UK researchers from all research areas. A fortnightly news bulletin is sent out from this list containing information on software and hardware updates, grid training and events and much more.

NGS-STATUS  
This is announcement list for notify NGS users about service down time and status.

NORTHGRID  
Co-ordination of HEP Grid/e-Science activities between Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield and CLRC Daresbury Laboratory.

OSSWATCH-ANNOUNCE  
This list has been retained 04/11/20; no one can subscribe to this list and no one can post to this list. Contact help@jisc.ac.uk for all enquiries regarding this list OSS Watch provides unbiased advice and guidance on the use, development, and licensing of free software, open source software, and open source hardware.

PADZAHR  
Padzahr is a social enterprise. We want to democratise data, giving communities, organisations and individuals a platform from which to make decisions and influence policy. Big data has long been the domain of multinational companies and governments. With all the knowledge comes all the power. Affecting change is a challenge without hard facts to back up arguments. Our aim is to level the playing field

PANOPTO  
This list is for the users and potential users of the Panopto lecture capture system. The aim is to share ideas and experiences that relate to Panopto.

PERMIS-DEV  
This list is for software developers that use PERMIS to make authorisation decisions for their applications.

PERMIS-USERS  
This list is for users of the PERMIS infrastructure and for administrators seeking help with installing and properly configuring PERMIS for use with their integrated application e.g. Shibboleth or GT4

POLLEVERYWHERE-USER-GROUP  
This is an open mailing list for all educational users of Poll Everywhere to share ideas, ask questions and provide answers. It supports a UK HE/FE User Group.

QUANTIFIEDSELF  
This list is tied to the recently formed Quantified Self Research Network which encourages interdisciplinary collaboration between those studying self tracking, wearable computing and the Quantified Self movement.

RG-SMM  
A network for social media managers at the Russell Group universities. This list is used to talk about social media best practice, ask questions and announce meetings/events for the network.

SABS4CYBER  
This is list is for sharing information about research, events and news relating to the social and behavioural science of cyber security. It is intended for an inter-disciplinary audience with participation welcomed from those in academia, industry and Government.

SCA-NORTHERN-IRELAND  
This list has been retained 30/07/20 no one can subscribe to this list and no one can post to this list. Contact help@jisc.ac.uk for all enquiries regarding this list The list is used by the Strategic Content Alliance to alert Northern Irish bodies of upcoming Strategic Content Alliance events in their area and about the work of the Strategic Content Alliance generally.

SCA-WALES  
This list has been retained 30/07/20 no one can subscribe to this list and no one can post to this list. Contact help@jisc.ac.uk for all enquiries regarding this list The list is used by the Strategic Content Alliance to alert Welsh bodies of upcoming Strategic Content Alliance events in their area and about the work of the Strategic Content Alliance generally.

SCAAFFILIATE  
This list has been retained 30/07/20 no one can subscribe to this list and no one can post to this list. Contact help@jisc.ac.uk for all enquiries regarding this list This list is for the 10 affiliate mebers of the SCA, so that they can be kept regularly updated and informed of SCA affivities and products. This group will also act as an information sharing forum between all of the partners.

SCOT-BUG  
This list is open to Blackboard users in further and higher education institutions, especially those from Scotland and Northern Ireland.

SCOTTISHWEBFOLK  
Used to support activites of a group of folk, based in Scotland who are involved in managing institutional websites. The group meets quarterly and this list facilitates communication between those meetings.

SGARG  
SGARG provides a medium of communication between the members of this Applied Research Group at Coventry University. Its purpose is to serve as a contact point to deliver information and stay in communication.

SNEDLIST  
For people using social networking to enrich the student experience

SOCIALMEDIANEWS  
This list is designed for academics to share information about new social media resources that can be used within higher education teaching, research and administration. It is primarily a 'what's new' list for social media within the HE sector. You don't have to be an advanced user to subscribe. You just have to be social media curious. It is set up by Professor Andy Miah (@andymiah) from the University of Salford (@andymiah) If you're just joining, the check out the archive summary here, which will get you started: https://tinyurl.com/AtoZCreativeMedia Hashtag: #socialmediaHE

SW-LEARNINGTECH-FORUM  
This list has been retained 28/07/20 no one can subscribe to this list and no one can post to this list. Contact help@jisc.ac.uk for all enquiries regarding this list Learning Technologists within educational institutions in the South West covered by the JISC RSC SW

SWORDV3  
This is a list for stakeholders around the world who are helping to develop version 3 of the SWORD data transfer protocol.

TDM-RS  
For research support staff working with researchers in Text and Data Mining. Focus is on legal aspects, tools, and storage of data for TDM research.

TEACHING-SECURITY  
This list is used to discuss issues relating to the teaching of computer and information security in UK higher education institutions.

TRUSTCOM-AL1  
TrustCoM project AL1 communication

TRUSTCOM-WP20  
This mailing list will be used for information exchange and work coordination within WP20 VO Management Modelling, of the EU FP6 Project TrustCoM - IST 01945

TRUSTCOM-WP21  
This mailing list will be used for information exchange and work coordination within WP21 BP Enactment and Orchestration Modelling, of the EU FP6 Project TrustCoM - IST 01945

TRUSTCOM-WP25  
TrustCom project mailing list, work package 25, EN/VO Infrastructure Modelling

TRUSTCOM-WP29  
TrustCoM project, Work Package 29, BP Enactment and Orchestration Implementation

TRUSTCOM-WP4  
TRUSTCOM (IMPLEMENTATION) FRAMEWORK SPECIFICATION team of the TrustCoM integrated project - an industry / academia collaboration with a substantial participation from UK Universities and Corporations. Sublist of TRUSTCOM-PROP

TURINGINS-HUMANITIES-DATASCIENCE  
This mailing list is for those interested in the work of the Humanities and Data Science Interest Group of The Alan Turing Institute. We will be sharing key updates, announcements and events as well as opportunities for engaging with the ongoing work associated with the group.

UBUNTU-USERS  
This mailing group is for Ubuntu users to discuss their experiences, share best practice and promote its reuse.

UCISA-ACCESSIBILITY  
List for discussions on the digital accessibility legislation

UCISA-DIVERSITYCHAMPIONS  
List for discussion about diversity among the members of ucisa

UK-MAIL-MANAGERS  
National mailing list for AC.UK Postmasters and System Administrators who maintain e-mail infrastructure.

UKEIG-INTRANETS-FORUM  
This is a mail list for UKeiG members to exchange information within the field of Intranets. UK e Information Group is a Special Interest Group of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. UKeiG is a respected and well-established body for all information professionals, users and developers of electronic information resources. We promote and advance the effective exploitation and management of electronic information in all formats. UKeiG has individual and corporate members across all key UK sectors: government, legal, business and commerce, science, technology and healthcare, higher and further education, and the public sector.

VCSP  
VCSP is a UK-wide list for those in the education and cultural sectors involved in delivering, receiving or enabling education via videoconferencing.

VIEWS-OPENSIM  
This sub-list is for members of the Scottish Virtual Worlds in Education (VIEWS) mail list. To support those interested in supporting, developing, promoting and using the OpenSimulator Virtual World Platform.

WEB-ASSISTED-ASSESSMENT  
This list, hosted by the CASTLE project, is for those interested in conducting assessment using the WWW. It is a forum for all WAA (web-assisted-assessment) issues e.g. question design/databases, authoring/delivery software etc., and also use of the CASTLE tools for WAA.

WEB-NE-REGION  
Group for HE web staff (admin or technical) in the North-East of England.

WEB-RESEARCH-UK  
A list for UK Web researchers to discuss UK specific issues, make announcements and communicate. Please note that this list is no longer in use.

WEB-SUPPORT  
For the discussion of issues relating to the World-Wide-Web, Web browsers, Web servers, the HTML language, HTML documents and editors, across all platforms.

WEBPA  
WebPA is an open source online peer assessment tool that enables every team member to recognise individual contributions to group work. This list is for users or developers who wish to join the WebPA community. For details of WebPA see: http://www.webpaproject.com/

WEBSITE-INFO-MGT  
List for the UK Higher and further communities to discuss all aspects of managing institutional Web services, maintaining the information, developing and managing web services, dealing with organisational and management issues and sharing of relevant experiences of maintaining a large information system.

WILLSWORLDHACK  
This is a mailing list for the Will's World Hack Event community and accompanying the Online Hack event which runs from 5th December until 12th December 2012. However we hope the community around the event will continue beyond this date. Will'€™s World is a JISC Discovery project in which EDINA aims to demonstrate the value and principles of aggregation as a tactic. The concept behind this project is that assembling online data sources relating to one topic will add value and improve the discoverability of these resources; making it easier for developers and service providers to build services and ultimately providing an easier access for all to the data itself and enriched content based on it.

WORDPRESS  
This group is for those keen to explore the full potential of the content management / blogging platform WordPress in educational and research contexts.