An article entitled Real World Approaches to Accessibility
has been published in the E-Access Bulletin, July 2010 issue. The article summarises a paper entitled Developing Countries; Developing Experiences: Approaches to Accessibility for the Real World which was awarded a prize for the best communications paper at the W4A 2010 conference held in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA in April 2010.
Archive for July, 2010
Real World Approaches to Accessibility
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Andy Powell Cycles in Memory of Rachel Heery
Monday, July 26th, 2010Staff at UKOLN are wishing former colleague Andy Powell the best of luck on his one-man charity bike ride from Lands End to John O’Groats in memory of former Deputy Director of UKOLN Rachel Heery who died a year ago. Andy, who worked with Rachel at UKOLN for some 10 years, gives the motivation behind his 1,000-mile odyssey in his blog End to John O’Groats and invites everyone to donate. Andy’s journey began yesterday in Cornwall and he will blog, blip and tweet progress as he manages his trusty but ageing steed and a dodgy knee all the way to Scotland. Details of these and how to donate can be obtained from Andy’s site.
International Journal of Digital Curation, Issue 1, Volume 5
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010UKOLN has just published – on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre – Issue 1, Volume 5 of the International Journal of Digital Curation. This issue features 11 peer-reviewed papers and four general articles.
KIM, ERIM and the Silo of Doom
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010Alex Ball of UKOLN and the UK Digital Curation Centre gave a presentation entitled ‘KIM, ERIM and the Silo of Doom: lessons from two long-lived data projects’ at the DPC event ‘Designed to Last: Computer-Aided Design’, held at the British Library Centre for Conservation on 16 July 2010. Both the slides and a script for his presentation are now available.
Mashed Library 2010 – Chips and Mash
Monday, July 19th, 2010Julian Cheal of UKOLN will be giving a lightning talk as part of the Mashed Library 2010 – Chips and Mash programme offered at Mashed Library 2010, which will be held at Huddersfield University on 30 July 2010, on a few uses of RFID readers and Library data. The talk will mainly comprise demonstrations of some RFID code Julian has written.
Briefing Paper: Exploiting the Potential of the Social Web
Thursday, July 15th, 2010A briefing paper entitled Exploiting the Potential of the Social Web has been published by the Association of Independent Museums (AIM). It is now available in PDF and in a Welsh-language PDF version. The paper was written by Brian Kelly, UKOLN, together with Glynis Powell, Museum Development Officer for Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull.
Winners of the DevCSI Developer Challenge
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010The DevCSI Project is pleased to announce that we have a winner for the this year’s DevCSI-organised Developer Challenge at Open Repositories 2010 in Madrid. Congratulations go to Richard Davis and Rory McNicholl from the University of London Computer Centre (ULCC). Rory is a Digital Archive Technologist and Richard is the Repository Service Manager. For information about this and other entries, please visit the DevCSI blog entry for the Challenge.
Enabling Research Data Management at the Coalface
Monday, July 12th, 2010Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director, UK Digital Curation Centre gave a presentation entitled UK Digital Curation Centre: enabling research data management at the coalface on the first day of the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2010 held in Redmond, Washington, USA. Slides from her presentation are now available.
Guide to Web Preservation Launch at the Opening of IWMW2010
Monday, July 12th, 2010The Guide to Web Preservation published by the JISC-funded Preservation of Web Resources (JISC-PoWR) Project run by UKOLN and the University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) has been launched at the Institutional Web Managers Workshop (IWMW2010). Further details are available.