UKOLN News

The second issue of the International Journal of Digital Curation, Vol.2, issue 1, 2007, was published on 27 July. A range of peer-reviewed papers and general articles on a variety of digital curation issues provides much material for consideration and debate.

UKOLN is taking part in a survey of usage of JISC-funded services. We invite visitors to the UKOLN Web site to take part in the survey.

UKOLN has a vacancy for a Research Officer to work in the areas of Enhanced Tagging and Terminology Registries.

Emma Tonkin, Interoperability Focus Officer at UKOLN, gave a presentation on the Dublin Core Registry Community at the recent Metadata Open Forum in New York. Emma provided an overview of current work taking place within and around the community with particular reference to metadata vocabulary management. Her presentation is now available.

The RSP recently held its inaugural Summer School for prospective and new managers of institutional and subject repositories at Dartington Hall, Devon. The school made a very sound start to its work, delivering a comprehensive overview of the practical challenges and solutions to effective repository implementation and establishing a close-knit community that will continue to receive support from the RSP over the forthcoming year. Plans for subsequent schools are already in the pipeline and will be announced in due course. An at-the-event report on the School will be published in the summer issue of Ariadne Web Magazine.

The Institutional Web Management Workshop 2007 has invited IWMW 2007 participants to submit lightweight examples of innovative uses of Web technologies which may be of interest to participants at this annual UKOLN event. Although the closing date for entries was officially Monday 9 July, the deadline has been extended until Thursday 12 July and the competition opened up so that non-attendees can also submit entries. The winner will be announced at the close of the IWMW 2007, on Wednesday 18 July 2007.

A paper entitled “Openness in Higher Education: Open Source, Open Standards, Open Access”, co-authored by Brian Kelly of UKOLN, Randy Metcalfe of the JISC OSS Watch Service and Scott Wilson of CETIS, was presented by Scott to the recent ELPUB 2007 Conference in Vienna.