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Free DevCSI Event: Apache SOLR

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

A free one-day DevCSI/Sourcesense workshop which will provide a thorough introduction to SOLR will be held at the London Mathematical Society on Monday 15 August 2011. Further information and a booking form are available on the UKOLN Web site.

This workshop is an introductory tutorial on Apache Solr, an open source enterprise search engine with a restful Web interface. The event will be run by Sourcesense.

The tutorial will start by looking at basic searches, and go on to consider some more sophisticated queries such as highlighting, spellchecking, faceting, etc. The focus will then move to indexing and how to make use of the sample data within SOLR. It will also examine a small Java application to index sample content from Wikipedia.

Further details are available on the UKOLN Web site.

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JISC Digital Preservation Benefits Tools Project Dissemination Workshop

Monday, July 18th, 2011

Presentations from the recent JISC Digital Preservation Benefits Tools Project Dissemination Workshop held at London South Bank University are now available on the UKOLN Web site.

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DevCSI Workshop on Open Data and the Institutional Web

Monday, July 11th, 2011

The Institutional Web Management Workshop 2011 and DevCSI are collaborating on a free event for developers looking at hacking content, systems and services for institutional/open data. The workshop, to be held at the University of Reading, will begin on Monday 25 July and end at lunch-time on Tuesday 26 July. Accommodation will be provided but places are limited. Further details on the workshop are available from the IWMW 2011 blog.

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JISC Digital Preservation Benefits Analysis Tools Project: Dissemination Workshop

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Some places remain for the workshop to disseminate the Digital Preservation Benefits Toolset and accompanying materials such as user guides and factsheets to the research community. The event, organised by UKOLN, will take place in London on Tuesday 12 July 2011. Full details are available in the news feature about the dissemination workshop on the UKOLN Web site.

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Request for Proposals for HTML5 Case Studies

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

UKOLN invites proposals for HTML5 case studies and demonstrators which describe best practices and scenarios for making use of HTML5 and related Open Web Platform standards for supporting activities of relevance to those working in the Higher and Further Education sectors.

A sum of up to £5,000 is available for each accepted submission (although please note that the sum available to respondents based outside the UK may be less than this due to VAT complexities – please get in touch to discuss if this is a concern).

The closing date for submissions is 18 July 2011, and successful proposers must agree to provide final case studies by 16 September 2011.

Further information is available on the UKOLN Web site.

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Institutional Web Management Workshop 2011 Blog Now Live

Monday, June 27th, 2011

The blog serving IWMW 2011 has now gone live and organisers Marieke Guy and Brian Kelly are already inviting posts. Information on how to contact them and the full background to the development and use of the IWMW blog is available in a News feature on the UKOLN Web site.

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7th International Digital Curation Conference: Key Speakers Announced

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

The IDCC11 Conference Committee has recently announced opening and closing keynotes by distinguished contributors, Ewan McIntosh, Founder and CEO of NoTosh, Professor Philip E Bourne, Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Computational Biology and Professor Stephen Emmott, Head of Computational Science at Microsoft Research. Full details on the conference and programme are available in a news feature on the UKOLN Web site.

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Openness Should ‘go deep’

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

In an article published in the magazine Research Information today, Brian Kelly has “challenged the higher-education community to go beyond open access to published research in the pursuit of openness”.  The article argues that, in addition to encouraging open access to research publications, there is a need to provide open access to data about research publications provided in institutional repositories.

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Patients Partcipate! Workshop: Last Remaining Places

Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

The Patients Participate! Project, led by UKOLN in collaboration with the British Library and the Association of Medical Research Charities is holding a workshop on bridging the gap between information access and understanding in health research on Friday 17 June 2011 (10.30 – 16.30) at the British Library Conference Centre, London. There are still some places remaining and full details on the workshop programme, venue, booking, etc., are available from the UKOLN Web site.

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Survey on Institutional Plans for the Mobile Web

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

A joint UKOLN / CETIS survey on institutional plans for the provision of mobile access to resources and services has been launched. The aim of the survey is to help the sector gain a better understanding of how institutions are supporting users of mobile devices, the technical approaches which have been taken, and the status of plans for mobile access. We would appreciate it if staff involved in delivering Web-based services for their institution (including Web managers, IT service staff, library staff, etc.) could fill in the survey.

A report on the findings will be published in late July 2011.

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