Bookings are now open for the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2009 to be held at the University of Essex, Colchester Campus, from Tuesday 28 to Thursday 30 July 2009. The event provides an opportunity to attend plenary talks, workshop sessions and Barcamps related to institutional Web Management.
Archive for April, 2009
Bookings now open for IWMW 2009
Thursday, April 30th, 2009Debate on Repositories and Open Source
Monday, April 20th, 2009Michael Day and Alex Ball of UKOLN have contributed to a recent discussion of the role of open source software for institutional repositories as part of a special section on Institutional Repositories: The Great Debate published in the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (Vol. 53, No. 4 , April/May 2009 
). Paul Jones of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supported the initial motion that Institutional repositories should be built on open source software, arguing passionately that any other choice would be “un-archival and unsustainable in the long run.” In their response, the UKOLN contributors recognised the value of the open source development paradigm, while arguing that the main focus of repositories should be fundamentally pragmatic and primarily focused on the stewardship of institutional content. The special issue includes three other discussion topics, with contributors including Stevan Harnad, Nancy McGovern and Soo Young Rieh.
IEMSR at JISC 2009
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
The JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry Project gave a demonstration of the registry and a suite of associated software tools at the recent 2009 JISC Conference. Slides and screenshots from the presentation are available on the IEMSR Web site.