UKOLN News

The Digital Curation Centre has published a new chapter of its Digital Curation manual. Authored by Maureen Pennock, the chapter explores the issues in managing e-mail messages throughout their life cycle, from creation to preservation and long-term archiving or disposal.

Slides from Ann Chapman”s presentation “Tapping into Collections”, given at the recent MLA West Midlands ICT Network Day, are now available.

Brian Kelly will facilitate a session on “Web 2.0 and the Institutional Web” at a “Scottish Web Folk” meeting to be held at the University of Strathclyde on Friday 4 August 2006.

Ann Chapman, Collection Description Focus, will talk on collection description and the Tap into Bath Project at the MLA West Midlands ICT Network Day, 25 July 2006, at the University of Wolverhampton.

The Toolkit, created by UKOLN in partnership with MLA North East, is designed to provide museums, libraries and archives with a framework through which they can develop their knowledge, competence and confidence in commissioning commercial organisations to undertake work in the area of digitisation. It is provided as a resource for the DiSCS-UK (Digital Services for the Cultural Sector) Web site.

Emma Tonkin, Interoperability Focus Officer at UKOLN, has made available her initial public release of wwtk, a wizard-style Web interface for structured information trails. It can be used as a wizard, an expert system, or as a backend for interactive fiction. Designed and built by UKOLN in partnership with MLA North East, the release comes bundled with sample content.

Brian Kelly, Web Focus, will participate in a panel session on accessibility at the Building the Perfect Council Website Conference to be held at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), London, on 11 July 2006.

The preliminary programme for the Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) workshop at ECDL 2006 is now available. Note that the considerable benefits of early registration end on 15 July.

Liz Lyon has been invited to join the MLA Partnership Digital Agenda Scoping Group. She spoke on “Memory institutions and the social fabric of the Web” to the inaugural meeting of the Group on 26 June 2006. Slides from her presentation are now available.

The Digital Repositories Programme support team has produced a report evaluating the applicability of OAIS across different types of repositories. A draft for comment is now available and feedback on this report would be welcome.