Archive for January, 2009

Launch of UKOLN’s Cultural Heritage Blog

Monday, January 19th, 2009

http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/cultural-heritage/

UKOLN’s Cultural Heritage blog was set up on 1 January 2009.  Since the ‘soft launch’ we have published introductions from the main contributors on the blog, a post about the preservation of Web resources, a look back at UKOLN events designed for the cultural heritage sector and a guest blog post from a participant at one of UKOLN’s recent blogging workshops.  The blog will provide UKOLN with an important communications channel for the cultural heritage sector, enabling us to publish articles of interest to the sector and, more importantly, to receive comments and feedback.

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500 Blog Posts and Counting

Monday, January 19th, 2009

http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/

500 posts have been published on the UK Web Focus blog since it was launched in November 2006, an average of over 4 posts per week. The blog, which is written by Brian Kelly, provides a dissemination channel and forum for discussion and debate on a variety of Web-related issues including standards, accessibility and best practice for exploiting the potential of Web 2.0.  Last year the blog was awarded a UCISA prize as a case study for best practices in communicating with users and was short-listed for the Best educational tech support blog category of the Edublog 2008 awards.

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Survey to find what makes a Good API

Monday, January 12th, 2009

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=yGugtLrayEiRLnGYzlUQ4w_3d_3d

You are invited to take take part in a research survey that documents your experiences of publishing and consuming Web APIs. The survey has been created by the Good APIs project, which is being carried out by UKOLN to provide JISC and the sector with information and advice on the factors that encourage effective use of machine interfaces. The survey will close on Wednesday 21st January

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Web 2.0 demystified for information professionals

Monday, January 12th, 2009

http://info.rsc-eastern.ac.uk/events/event_details.asp?eid=615

Marieke Guy of UKOLN will be facilitating an online course for the JISC Regional Support Centre for the Eastern region on Wednesday 23 Feb 2009 from 11am – 12pm. The event is free to attend but places are limited.

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New issue of Focus on UKOLN

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/focus/issue20/

Issue 20 of Focus on UKOLN is now available, providing news, opinion and information on the wide range of activities undertaken by UKOLN, written by its staff.

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JISC to increase UKOLN funding significantly from 2009

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/press/2009-01-08/

JISC has announced that it is significantly increasing its funding to UKOLN from 2009. This increase is both a mark of confidence in the work of UKOLN but also a recognition of the increasing importance of investment in a national e-infrastructure to support the UK’s global competitiveness in science, research and innovation. UKOLN is a JISC Innovation Support Centre based at the University of Bath, UK and provides strategic guidance, policy and advocacy support and technical expertise for JISC activities, and thereby, to the sector as a whole.

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The Fetish of the Digital

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

http://jiscpowr.jiscinvolve.org/2009/01/07/the-fetish-of-the-digital/

Dr James Currall, Director of Information Strategy, University of Glasgow has written a guest blog post on the JISC Preservation of Web Resources blog speculating what exactly is the ‘information object’ that needs to be preserved. This project, which was officially completed in November 2008, was undertaken jointly by UKOLN at the University of Bath and ULCC Digital Archives department.

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