UKOLN News

UKOLN is a partner in a new 5.5 million pound EPSRC-funded Grand Challenge project led by the University of Bath Mechanical Engineering Department. The project involves 11 universities. UKOLN”s contribution to the project will be to help engineering and construction firms manage important information about hospitals, schools, military equipment and aircraft safely and securely over long periods of time.

UKOLN is a partner in a new 5.5 million pound EPSRC-funded Grand Challenge project led by the University of Bath Mechanical Engineering Department. The project involves 11 universities and has been set up to help engineering and construction firms provide hospitals, schools, military equipment and aircraft for their customers long-term. The Immortal Information project is investigating “through-life knowledge management: strategies and tools for the emerging product-service business paradigm” in the engineering field. UKOLN”s in-house information management expertise together with DCC connections provide some potentially interesting research elements to the partnership.

A Podcast which provides a summary of the recent WWW 2005 conference has been published by CDNTL, University of Bath.

This year”s Institutional Web Management Workshop is now fully subscribed.