UKOLN News

The UK Web Focus blog appears as one of the case studies submitted in response to the call from the Communications, Liaison and Information Working Group of the UCISA Teaching, Learning and Information Group (TLIG). The Best Practice Guide is now available as a 39-page document which can be downloaded from the UCISA Web site.

Brian Kelly will give talks on “An Introduction to Web 2.0″ and “Web 2.0 and Digital Preservation” at a workshop for the Data Standards Group of the Society of Archivists. The workshop, “Sharing Made Simple: A Practical Approach”, is organised jointly by the Society and UKOLN. It will take place at the University of Manchester on 10 March 2008.

The Winter Issue of Ariadne, Issue 54, is now available with, among others, articles on E-Publication and Open Access in the Arts and Humanities in the UK, the solutions being developed by the Version Identification Framework (VIF) Project, the JISC-funded SWORD Project, and a description of the work of the RepoMMan Project. We are pleased to include an article on how endangered intangible South American indigenous heritage is being both preserved and disseminated with the aid of Web-based technologies. There is also a discussion of the position of Web 2.0 applications in the programmes of LIS schools in the United States, while human-powered search engines are placed under the microscope. Emma Tonkin of UKOLN and colleagues provide a series of international perspectives on the practice of social tagging of documents within a community context. Eddie Young of UKOLN Software and Systems writes on Saving Energy in the Workplace while Pete Cliff from R&D reviews a work on machine learning and statistics applied
to Web-accessible datasets.

A presentation entitled “UK Perspectives on the Curation and Preservation of
Scientific Data” was given recently on behalf of Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, by David Arctur to the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston, Massachusetts. Slides from the presentation are now available.

Dr Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, is to speak at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)in Boston, Massachusetts. Her presentation will focus on the need for policies that
address issues relating to the long-term curation and preservation of scientific data.

Bookings are now open for two CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG) half-day seminars, both taking place on Wednesday 2 April 2008 at Staff House, University of Manchester. The morning session will be on MARC 21 and the afternoon will be devoted to the CIG Standards Forum.