UKOLN News

Brian Kelly will facilitate a workshop session on “Managing New Technologies: The Challenge of Web 2.0″ at the Umbrella 2007 Conference to be held at the University of Hatfield over 28 – 30 July 2007. The workshop will take place on Thursday 28 June 2007 at 15.30.

Brian Kelly will give a talk on “The Accessible Web” at the Web Adept: Museums and the Web 2007 Conference which will be held at the University of Leicester on 22 June 2007.

A new report “Dealing with Data” charts a practical path through the challenges presented by the enormous increase in research data and will help all stakeholders plan the next steps in data curation. The report, by Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN and Associate Director, DCC, is strategically positioned to provide a bridge between the high-level Research Information Network Framework of Principles and Guidelines for the stewardship of research data, and that of practitioner-focused technical development work.

A consortium of international digital preservation projects, to which the Digital Curation Centre has contributed a great deal, is one of five short-listed nominees for the Digital Preservation Award, sponsored by the Digital Preservation Coalition as part of the 2007 Conservation Awards. Digital Repository Audit and Certification, undertaken by CRL, RLG-OCLC, NARA, DCC, DPE and nestor and comprising the Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification (TRAC) Criteria and Checklist (maintained by the US Center for Research Libraries), the nestor project”s Criteria Catalogue and the Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment (DRAMBORA) published by the Digital Curation Centre and DigitalPreservationEurope, presents complementary methods for the self-assessment, audit and certification of digital repository infrastructures.

The Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA) Staff Development Group has invited Brian Kelly to be the opening plenary speaker on this topic at its symposium for central and distributed IT support staff to be held at St Anne”s College, Oxford over 21-22 June 2007.

Liz Lyon recently gave a presentation at the JISC Digital Repositories Conference in Manchester in a session on the curation of research data. Her presentation entitled “Dealing with Data: Roles, Rights, Responsibilities & Relationships” is now available.

Brian Kelly will facilitate a session on “Design Issues: Technological Challenges Posed by Web 2.0″ at the Fellows Conference 2007 organised by the Centre for Distance Education. The conference will be held at the Institute of Education, University of London, on Tuesday 19 June 2007.

Liz Lyon recently gave a presentation to the 4th Conference on Research Infrastructures 2007 in Hamburg. Slides from her presentation entitled “Dealing with Data: Roles, Rights, Responsibilities & Relationships in the European Context” are now available.

The Open Archives Initiative – Object Reuse and Exchange Project has just released a white paper entitled “Compound Information Objects: The OAI-ORE Perspective” which describes the Web-centric OAI-ORE perspective on compound information objects. This document is a work in progress and was used as a discussion document in preparation for the May 2007 meeting of the OAI-ORE Technical Committee. The paper presents some crucial thinking which underpins this project and outlines a range of issues that are critical to its success.

Two vacancies have arisen at UKOLN – one as Research Officer in the JISC Repositories Research Team (RRT) and one as Research Officer within the Digital Curation Centre & Repositories Support Project (to cover maternity leave). The closing date for applications is 29 June 2007.