UKOLN News

Registration is now open for this two-day workshop on distributed service registries.

UKOLN currently has vacancies for two support posts for the JISC Digital Repository Programme. The posts will support the programme in the application of standards and protocols, providing best practice guidelines and advice for the wider community based on programme outcomes. The closing date for applications is 17 June 2005.

UKOLN is now recruiting for two posts within the JISC Digital Repositories Programme. The closing date for applications is 17 June 2005.

We are pleased to announce that, contrary to information provided previously, places are still available for this year”s Institutional Web
Management Workshop, which will be held at the University of Manchester on 6-8 July. The closing date for bookings is 10 June.

We are pleased to announce that, contrary to information provided previously, places are still available for this year”s Institutional Web

Management Workshop, which will be held at the University of Manchester on 6-8 July. The closing date for bookings is 10 June.

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.

Brian Kelly gave a paper which described limitations in traditional approaches to Web accessibility and outlined an alternative approach which has been developed in conjunction with TechDis. The paper was presented at the W4A conference which preceded the international WWW 2005 conference held recently in Japan.