Brian Kelly was the lead author of a paper entitled Developing Countries; Developing Experiences: Approaches to Accessibility for the Real World which received the John M Slatin award for the Best Communications Paper at the 7th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A) Conference held in Raleigh, North Carolina. Further information is available.
Archive for April, 2010
Winner of John M Slatin Award at W4A 2010
Thursday, April 29th, 2010Survive or Thrive: Making the most of your digital content
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010The growth and use of digital content on the Web together with the digital deluge pose opportunities as well as challenges. How best are they both to be exploited and managed? UKOLN is organising the Survive or Thrive 2010 Conference
on behalf of JISC to address such issues. The Conference will take place at the Macdonald Hotel, Manchester over Tuesday 8 – Wednesday 9 June 2010. Further information is obtainable from the UKOLN Web site.
Citation of Network Models and Associated Data
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010The recent Sage Commons Congress in San Francisco aimed to establish the foundation for a new public domain resource, the Sage Commons. Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, led the workstream on Citation of Network Models and Associated Data. The slides from her presentation are now available.
The World of Data According to Dorothea Salo
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010UKOLN was delighted to be able to host a thought-provoking presentation by Dorothea Salo, Digital Repository Librarian for the University of Wisconsin, who has been visiting the UK in the past week or so. Featured by The Library Journal as one of its Movers & Shakers, Dorothea is noted for her blog Caveat Lector (2002-9) and now writes on a new blog on the subject of e-research, The Book of Trogool. Her presentation entitled Grab a bucket – it’s raining data was videoed under difficult lighting conditions; the footage which favours the speaker’s slides in such conditions is now available as Part 1 and Part 2.
Keynote Speakers at JISC/CNI 2010
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010Liz Lyon will be a keynote speaker at the JISC/CNI Meeting 2010 recently announced by JISC and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) which will take place over 1-2 July 2010 and will be held at the Barcelo Carlton Hotel, Edinburgh. The conference will be organised by UKOLN and will bring together experts from the United States, Europe and the United Kingdom. The conference theme this year is Managing Data in Difficult Times: policies, strategies, technologies and infrastructure to manage research and teaching data in a fast changing technological and economic environment. Conference keynote speakers include: Dan Atkins, Professor and Associate Vice President, University of Michigan, Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Director for Library Digital Programs, John Hopkins University, Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC and Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN.
Liz Lyon Interviewed for ABC Science Online
Monday, April 19th, 2010During her visit to Australia in November 2009, Liz Lyon was interviewed for her thoughts towards the article Putting the citizen into science by Suzannah Lyons which has recently been published by ABC Science Online . Asked about the increased involvement of ordinary people in scientific projects, Liz remarked, “Clearly in the last few years these sorts of opportunities have been greatly facilitated by social networks and the collaborative tools that we’ve seen with Web 2.0.” She pointed to the way in which citizen science is increasing public awareness of scientific work, “perhaps in some ways demystifying it.” While stressing the need to contribute reliable data in such a partnership, Liz concluded, “Citizen science is not only changing the way we do and perceive science, it’s also empowering people to make a difference.”
Codes, Clouds and Constellations at the CNI Spring Meeting
Thursday, April 15th, 2010Liz Lyon was invited to give a presentation at the closing plenary session of the recent Spring Meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) in Baltimore, Maryland. The slides from her presentation entitled Codes, Clouds and Constellations: Open Science in the Data Decade are now available.
Off the digi-scale
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010Brian Kelly is featured in an interview published in the April issue of Information World Review.
An Evidence-based Approach to Collaborative Ontology Development
Friday, April 9th, 2010Andrew Hewson of UKOLN gave a poster presentation entitled An evidence-based approach to collaborative ontology development on behalf of the authors Emma Tonkin of UKOLN, Heather D. Pfeiffer, New Mexico State University and Andy himself at the Workshop on Matching and Meaning 2010 (WMM 2010) held at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK over 31 March – 1 April. The aim of this workshop was to bring together researchers interested in the problems of automated development, evolution and interpretation of ontologies in the many different domains in which they occur. This poster is now available.
Approaches to Accessibility in Developing Countries at W4A 2010
Friday, April 9th, 2010Brian Kelly is lead author of a paper entitled Developing Countries; Developing Experiences: Approaches to Accessibility for the Real World which has been accepted at the Web4All (W4A) 2010 Conference, the 7th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility. The authors of the paper are Brian Kelly (UKOLN), Sarah Lewthwaite (University of Nottingham) and David Sloan (University of Dundee). The W4A Conference takes place over 26 – 27 April in Raleigh, NC, USA.