UKOLN News

A paper by Brian Kelly of UKOLN with contributions by colleagues from JISC, CETIS, AHDS and OSS Watch will be presented at the workshop on E-Government:Barriers and Opportunities 2006, to be held in Edinburgh on 23 May 2006.

The eBank UK Project, led by UKOLN, featured in the ICT section of the 5 May 2006 issue of the Times Higher Education Supplement.

A Call for Participation and Exhibitors is issued for the “Metadata Tools for Digital Resource Repositories Workshop” at the JCDL 2006 Conference, 15 June 2006, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. The goal is to communicate challenges and solutions regarding specific digital library metadata tools and software. A range of issues including metadata creation, management, preservation, display and retrieval will be addressed through discussions and an exhibition of tools.

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.

Brian 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.

The 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.

In 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 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.