It is with great sadness that we report that Rachel Heery, former Assistant Director of UKOLN, died on Friday 24 July, after a long-term illness. Rachel joined UKOLN in 1995, and led the R&D Team and later became Assistant Director for Research and Development, until her retirement in 2007. Our thoughts are with all Rachel’s friends and colleagues, but above all her family. It is possible to send a message about Rachel.
Archive for July, 2009
Rachel Heery
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009Live Video Streaming at IWMW 2009
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009The main plenary talks at the Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) 2009, taking place over 28-30 July at the University of Essex, will be live streamed. There will also be live blogging in the form of the iwmwlive Twitter account.
New IWMW 2009 Blog
Monday, July 27th, 2009Take a look at the new blog for the IWMW 2009 community designed to operate before, during and after the Institutional Web Management Workshop. Posts will be from speakers and delegates alike and will include videos and interviews.
IWMW 2009 – The Invisible Repository
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009Is the end-user interface for accessing the institutional repository a red herring? Should we be looking at making the IR vanish as far as the end user is concerned? Stephanie Taylor of UKOLN will be facilitating a breakout session to explore a different way of developing and integrating repositories.
Engineering a Complete Record
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009The July/August 2009 issue
of Library and Information Update, the journal of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), features an article by Alex Ball of UKOLN. In Engineering a complete record Alex covers some of the research carried out by the KIM Grand Challenge Project. The article describes how the project has investigated the issues of knowledge and information management that arise as engineering firms increasingly sell their products as services.
From Web Accessibility to Web Adaptability
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Brian Kelly is the lead author of a paper entitled From Web Accessibility to Web Adaptability. The paper, by Brian Kelly, Liddy Nevile, David Sloan, Sotiris Fanou, Ruth Ellison and Lisa Herrod, appears in Volume 4, Issue 4, 2009 of Disability and Rehability: Assistive Technology, the journal of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM ).
IDCC 2009 – Call for Papers deadline extended
Thursday, July 16th, 2009The DCC is pleased to announce that the Paper Submission date for IDCC09 has been extended by two weeks to Friday 7 August 2009. Submissions should be in the form of a full or short paper, or a one page abstract for a poster, workshop or demonstration. All papers accepted for the conference will be published in the International Journal of Digital Curation .
Using the Social Web
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009Brian Kelly will facilitate a two-hour workshop session entitled Using the Social Web to Maximise Access to Your Resources at a two-day Search Engine Optimisation workshop called Improving Your Online Presence which will be held at the JISC Offices, London over 27-28 July 2009. There are well-documented techniques, known as Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), which can be used in order to ensure that Web resources can be easily found in search engines such as Google. This session will explore a number of ways in which the Social Web can be used by organisations seeking to maximise access to their services.
Registry Community Workshop
Monday, July 13th, 2009Bookings for The Registry Community Workshop 2009 – organised by UKOLN and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
(DCMI) – are now open. The event takes place on Friday 24 July in York.