UKOLN News

Pete Cliff of UKOLN gave a presentation entitled “FRBR and Metadata Application Profiles” at the recent VIF Version Identification Workshop at the Hatton, London. Slides from this presentation are now available.

The call for papers for the 4th International Digital Curation Conference is now available. The conference will be held 1-3 December 2008 at the Grosvenor Hilton in Edinburgh.

Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, gave a presentation entitled
“Virtual Research Environments: Into the Future” at the recent
JISC Conference 2008: Enabling innovation. Slides from her
presentation are now available.

UKOLN has celebrated 30 years of achievement at the British Library with colleagues and friends. Presentations from an international line-up of speakers were followed by a champagne reception: it was a great pleasure to meet so many partners formal and informal not only to recall UKOLN”s achievements since 1978, but also to discuss the challenges for the future.

Becta, the UK Government”s lead agency for ICT in education has recently published volume 3 (2008) of its Research Report “Emerging technologies for learning”, a publication which aims
to help readers consider how emerging technologies may influence education in the medium term. Its content is an article by Emma Tonkin, Interoperability Focus Officer at UKOLN, entitled “If it quacks like a duck: Developments in search technologies”. In this contribution Emma examines some of the widely held assumptions about the ICT usage and behaviour of young learners
on the subject of searching for information and lays open some of the misunderstandings that abound within this area.

Brian Kelly will participate in the Oxford University Conference 2008
Beyond Debate entitled “Beyond Digital Natives: Old Problem, New Systems”
on 4 April 2008 at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. He has
been asked to speak against the motion “This house believes that the continuing introduction of new technologies and new media adds little to the quality of most education.”

Simon Coles of the University of Southampton and Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, gave a presentation entitled “The eCrystals Federation” during the Scientific Repositories session of OR08, the Third International Conference on Open Repositories. Slides from their presentation are now available.