UKOLN News

A paper co-authored by Alex Ball and Manjula Patel entitled “Representation Information for Lightweight Format Migrations” has been accepted for presentation at the KIM Project Conference, to be held at Loughborough University on 28-29 March 2007.

The eXtensible Metadata Platform (XMP) from Adobe is a way of embedding Resource Description Framework (RDF) style metadata within digital images and documents, and is becoming popular in the area of digital asset management. A briefing paper on the capabilities of XMP, written by Alex Ball of UKOLN for the KIM Grand Challenge Project, is now available for public viewing.

Last weekend”s Financal Times Magazine carried an article by this name on the perils and risks of digital archiving, particularly of e-mails. The article features comments and quotations from a wide range of experts in the preservation, libraries and archives community, including members of the Digital Curation Centre.

Ann Chapman gave a guest lecture on current bibliographic standards to information management students at London Metropolitan University recently. Slides from her presentation are now available.

Liz Lyon chaired the session on this topic at the JISC Annual Conference in Birmingham recently. Liz also spoke on the findings of the JISC work she has been conducting, investigating the relationships between institutions and their data, institutional repositories and data centres. Slides from Liz” presentation are now available.

Maureen Pennock, DCC Research Officer at UKOLN, contributed to this session at the Annual JISC Conference by speaking on the outcomes of a synthesis exercise on the JISC Digital Preservation and Asset Management Programme. Maureen introduced a range of tools, prototype services and examplars that were developed by projects funded within this programme that can be used to help institutions tackle the challenges of digital preservation and digital asset management.

Ann Chapman has been invited to give a guest lecture on current bibligraphic standards to library and information management students at London Metropolitan University on Friday 16 March 2007.

In her presentation to the recent national Freedom of Information group meeting in Birmingam, Maureen Pennock, DCC Research Officer at UKOLN, spoke on email curation as it relates in particular to the Freedom of Information Act and FoI requests. Slides from her presentation are now available.

Based on their work on video streaming at last year”s IWMW Web Managers” Workshop, Emma Tonkin and Greg Tourte of UKOLN recently presented a paper entitled “Video Streaming: remote participation and engagement in the conference environment” at the IADIS International Conference in Salamanca, Spain. Slides from their presentation are now available.

Brian Kelly will give a talk entitled “Deployment Strategies for Web 2.0″ at the University of Nottingham on 12 March 2007. In his presentation Brian will review Web 2.0 and its potential benefits and also address the concerns which institutions may have in seeking to exploit it. He will outline deployment strategies for Web 2.0, based on an understanding of possible risks, organisational cultures and the threats and opportunities perceived by different groupings within the institution.