JISC has funded a Digital Repositories Roadmap document to present a vision for 2010. This has been undertaken by Rachel Heery from UKOLN and Andy Powell from the Eduserv Foundation. This is a discussion document that provides context for project and programme work.
Archive for May 3rd, 2006
Digital Repositories Roadmap: Looking Forward
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006UKOLN presentation at OSS Watch conference on Sustainability of Open Source Software
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006Brian Kelly gave a talk on “Synergies Between Open Standards and Open Source” at the OSS Watch conference held in Oxford over 10-12 April 2006. The talk outlined the approach UKOLN has developed for the use of open standards in JISC development programmes, and the parallels with use of open source software. Slides are available.
Presentation on *Emails as Records: From Creation to Curation*
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006The slides from this presentation, given by Maureen Pennock of UKOLN at the DCC Workshop “Email Curation: Practical Approaches for Long-term Preservation”, are now available.
Open Standards For JISC Development Programmes
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006In order to support the recent Call for Proposals for JISC”s Capital Programme, UKOLN has published a briefing document which provides advice on the role of open standards within the development programmes.
Ariadne Spring Issue now available
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006Ariadne issue 47 was published on 30 April 2006 and contains articles on the RDN, an overview of search engine development, Portico, Stargate, OSU”s Metasearch tool, Serving Services in Web 2.0, reflections on folksonomies and other innovations, and a factory approach to digitising an archive.