Archive for April 28th, 2006

Bookings are now open for the CIG Annual Conference 2006

Friday, April 28th, 2006

The Cataloguing & Indexing Group of CILIP 2006 Conference, “Immaculate Catalogues”, to be held at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, 13-15 September 2006, will focus on taxonomy, metadata and resource discovery.

Briefing paper on OAIS now available

Friday, April 28th, 2006

The Open Archival Information System Reference Model is quickly becoming established as the basis for describing digital repositories. A briefing paper on the model, written by Alex Ball of UKOLN for the KIM Grand Challenge Project, has now been released for public viewing.

JISC/CNI 2006 Meeting, York, July 2006: Early Bird Registration Deadline: 12 May 2006

Friday, April 28th, 2006

UKOLN Events is co-ordinating this meeting between experts from the US and the UK and which will explore and contrast major developments in information systems, digital services and resources for learning, teaching and research in the education community on both sides of the Atlantic.

UKOLN facilitates research seminar at joint ALT/SURF/ILTA

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Brian Kelly co-facilitated a one-day workshop on “Emerging Technologies and the “Net Generation”" at the ALT 2006 research seminar held at the University of Leiden, Holland on 7 April 2006. The workshop outlined a vision for e-learning for the “net generation” and addressed some of the barriers in implementing the vision. A white paper based on the outcomes of the workshop (and two related workshops on life-long learning and digital games) is currently being finalised.