UKOLN News

The UKOLN workshop “Exploiting the Potential of Wikis” took place at Austin Court, Birmingham recently to capacity participation. Speakers” slides and notes from the discussion groups are now available.

Julie Allinson of UKOLN and Andy Powell of the Eduserv Foundation chaired a special session on metadata for scholarly publications (eprints) at the recent Dublin Core conference in Mexico. Their presentation during the session is now available.

Maureen Pennock has contributed an article of this name to the October (Issue 134) edition of the “Records Management Bulletin”, the bi-monthly magazine of the Records Management Society. A pre-print of this item is now available.

DCC researchers at UKOLN are to embark on an exercise to synthesise the results of JISC”s Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions Programme (also known as the 4/04 Programme). This exercise will bring together and synthesise the tangible results of all projects funded under this programme.

Brian Kelly will facilitate a workshop session on “Thinking the Unthinkable” at the CETIS 2006 Conference to be held at The Lowry, Manchester over 14-15 November 2006.

A paper by Emma Tonkin entitled “Searching the long tail: Hidden structure in social tagging” has been accepted by the American Society of Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) for inclusion in its upcoming 17th Annual SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop in Austin, Texas.

Brian Kelly started work at UKOLN on 1 November 1996. He has written an article in which he reflects on his first decade as UK Web Focus.