Julian Cheal, UKOLN, won the Pecha Kucha prize
for “short presentations of 20 slides at 20 seconds each slide” at the Repository Fringe 2009 in Edinburgh.
Archive for the ‘Awards’ Category
Julian Cheal wins Prize at Repository Fringe
Thursday, August 13th, 2009Repositories Support Project Prized for Innovation
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
The Repositories Support Project (RSP) and SWORD both with UKOLN staff involvement won special prizes at the recent JISC Repositories and Preservation Meeting at the Aston Business School. Delegates were invited to vote for one project each in the Repositories and Preservation Programme that had been most innovative and had most impact. Voting took place either through a ballot box or via twitter. The results were announced during the evening dinner and there was general agreement among delegates that the two projects were deserving of recognition, though indeed all projects listed demonstrated elements of innovation and impact. More information about the meeting is available including links to presentations and videos on YouTube.
SWORD Wins Innovation Award at JISC Event
Monday, May 11th, 2009
The Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit (SWORD) Project , led by UKOLN, was named most innovative project at the recent JISC Repositories and Preservation conference at Aston Business School, as voted for by delegates from across the whole Programme. SWORD, whose partners include developers of the DSpace, EPrints, Fedora and IntraLibrary repository software platforms, plus the University of York and CASIS at the University of Wales, has created a mechanism for repositories to deposit and receive deposits via a standard protocol, thus making it possible for different repositories and other applications to move content around more easily. SWORD has received much interest, and a growing community of active developers is building, including Microsoft whose SWORD plug-in can support deposits direct to a repository from within Microsoft Word. FeedForward, a close second for the award, is also SWORD-compliant. Work on SWORD continues within the UKOLN suite of activities.