Only a few places remain for the one-day workshop entitled An Introduction to Web 2.0 and the Social Web to be held in Nottingham on Wednesday 17 March 2010. This workshop is designed for members of the museums, libraries and archives communities. It will seek to demystify the terminology and the technologies as well as address the challenges which institutions may face in seeking to make use of Web 2.0 to support the needs of their users. The workshop will be facilitated by Marieke Guy of UKOLN. Details of the Nottingham event and how to book the last few places are available.
Archive for February, 2010
Web 2.0 and the Social Web
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010The Panton Principles for Open Data in Science
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010The Open Knowledge Foundation
has made an announcement concerning the launch of the Panton Principles for Open Data in Science. The Foundation states that open data should be data that are “freely available on the public internet permitting any user to download, copy, analyse, re-process, pass them to software or use them for any other purpose without financial, legal, or technical barriers…” and that accordingly data relating to published science should be available in the public domain. The Principles themselves hold that the legal status of scientific datasets should be explicit and that content licences are not appropriate for data. The first draft of the Panton Principles was written in July 2009 by Peter Murray-Rust, Cameron Neylon, Rufus Pollock and John Wilbanks and were refined with the assistance of the members of the Open Knowledge Foundation Working Group on Open Data in Science.
Issue 62 of Ariadne Now Available
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010Issue 62 of Ariadne is now available with its usual mix of main articles, event reports and reviews on a wide range of topics. LMS users may be interested to read of the implementation of Xerxes at Royal Holloway while researchers have notice of activity JISC is planning to carry out on Research 3.0. There are also articles, among others, on Web preservation and reference management, an information model of digital identifiers, a user-driven methodology for the iterative development, testing and implementation of Dublin Core Application Profiles in diverse repository software environments, the current situation in ebook readers, some recent developments in democratising the archive, the value of intranets as a strategic asset and a tool designed to display information about researchers and their activities.
CILIP Executive Briefing on RDA
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010Ann Chapman of UKOLN will be speaking on the development of RDA at the CILIP Executive Briefing on Resource Description and Access to be held on 23 March 2010 at CILIP HQ in London. The Briefing will be of interest to senior managers, cataloguing managers, cataloguers and the supplier community.
RDMF: Opening Bio-Health Data and Models Securely and Effectively
Monday, February 8th, 2010The Welcome and Introduction to the fourth meeting of the Research Data Management Forum (RDMF) to be held over 10 – 11 March 2010 at the University of Manchester will be provided by Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director, DCC, and Stéphane Goldstein, Head of Programmes, RIN. They will welcome the opening keynote speaker Professor Iain Buchan, Professor of Public Health Informatics and Director of the Northwest Institute for Bio-Health Informatics (NIBHI), University of Manchester. Professor Buchan’s keynote address is entitled Opening Bio-Health Data and Models Securely and Effectively for Public Benefit. Further information is available.