UKOLN News

A vacancy has arisen at UKOLN for a Research Officer (Text Digitisation). The post holder will be a major part of UKOLN”s contribution to the IMPACT (Improving Access to Text) project, and would be responsible for the specification and provision of high-quality documentation on text digitisation topics and an integrated training programme. The closing date for applications is 30 January 2009.

The UK Web Focus Blog, published by Brian Kelly, has been nominated for an award in the “best educational tech support blog” category of the 2008 Edublog Awards. Voting is now open.

Issue 2, Volume 3 of The International Journal of Digital Curation is now available. The peer-reviewed papers offer a variety of topics. They include an exploration of data practices in the long-standing Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) setting, a description of experiences in the area of curating engineering information, how one group has dealt with migration problems in a long-term archive of US Government Printing Office datasets, a description of tools from the SCOPE (Scientific Compound Object Publishing and Editing) system which is designed to enable scientists to author, publish and edit scientific compound objects, together with research analysing the current parlous state of preservation of computer games in the UK. General articles include reports from iPRES 2008 and the 3rd Annual WePreserve Conference, experience from American Memory, another covers an international copyright study with implications for curation and preservation, while another describes steps being taken in Australia to establish a national distributed data service. We have also received articles from DCC staff working on both the Digital Audit Framework and DRAMBORA. The IJDC is produced by UKOLN on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre.

Brian Kelly gave the closing keynote plenary talk on “Realising The Potential of Web 2.0″ at the “Nordlib 2.0 – Get Inspired by Web 2.0 for
Libraries” conference held at Aula Magna, Stockholm University, Stockholm,
Sweden on 21 November 2008. The slides of the talk together with an
accompanying video are now available.