UKOLN is organising a one-day workshop entitled “Metrics and Social Web Services: Quantitative Evidence for Their Use and Impact” which will be held at the Open University in Milton Keynes on Monday 11 July 2011. The workshop will explore ways in which metrics related to the use of Social Web services can be employed in order to provide evidence of how the services are being used. It will also allow delegates to make comparisons with their peers as well as enable them to identify trends in usage. Attendance at the workshop is free. Bookings should be made using the online Eventbrite booking system.
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Metrics and Social Web Services Workshop: Booking Opens
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011Last Spaces on DevCSI Free Cloud Services Workshop
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011The DevCSI Project will run a free Cloud services workshop on Friday 27 May 2011 at the University of Southampton. Only a very few places now remain; bookings will cease at 12 noon tomorrow, Thursday 26 May. So please book now to avoid disappointment.
The workshop will give delegates an overview of Cloud technologies and showcase examples of how the technology is used in Further and Higher Education. It is designed for developers, Web developers and systems administrators and will cover the basics of commercial Linux cloud usage.
Further information and a booking form are available from the UKOLN Events page.
Understanding Use of the Social Web
Thursday, May 19th, 2011Brian Kelly has been invited to give a presentation entitled Metrics for Understanding Personal and Institutional Use of the Social Web by the workshop on Digital Impacts: How to Measure and Understand the Usage and Impact of Digital Content. The workshop, organised by the Oxford Internet Institute, will take place on 20 May 2011 at Jesus College, Oxford. Further information on Brian’s talk is available from his recent blog post.
Release of TechWatch Report on Augmented Reality for Smartphones
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011A new TechWatch report entitled Augmented Reality for Smartphones has now been released. It was commissioned by UKOLN as part of JISC Observatory work. Full details are available in a UKOLN news feature.
SCA Report Features Case Study of Use of Social Media at IWMW 2010
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011The JISC Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) blog has recently published a post entitled Maximising online resource effectiveness in which reference is made to a report in PDF format of the same name. This SCA report includes in Section 10 a case study on the use of social media in support of UKOLN’s annual Institutional Web Management Workshop of last year (IWMW 2010).
DevCSI Free Cloud Services Workshop
Friday, May 6th, 2011The DevCSI Project will run a free Cloud services workshop on Friday 27 May 2011 at the University of Southampton. It will give delegates an overview of Cloud technologies and showcase examples of how the technology is used in Further and Higher Education. It is designed for developers, Web developers and systems administrators and will cover the basics of commercial Linux cloud usage.
Further information and a booking form are available from the UKOLN Events page.
IWMW 2011 Open for Bookings
Thursday, May 5th, 2011UKOLN’s Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW 2011) is now open for bookings. It will be held at the University of Reading on 26-27 July 2011. Further information and details on booking are available from the associated UKOLN news feature.
Report on Augmented Reality on Smartphones: Feedback Invited
Thursday, April 28th, 2011Feedback is invited on a TechWatch report entitled Augmented Reality for Smartphones which has been commissioned by UKOLN. The report, which has been written by Ben Butchart, Edina, has been mentioned in the April issue of Wired by Bruce Sterling:
This is a fine piece of comprehensive research work. If you’re an AR developer or content guy, you’re gonna want a printout of this lying around, so you can brandish it at people. You’ll look like you know what you’re talking about!
Comments on the report are invited until Friday 6 May 2011. After that the final version of the report will be released.
IDCC11: Call for Papers
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011The theme of the 7th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC11) will be Public? Private? Personal? navigating the open data landscape. It will take place this year in Bristol, UK over 5 – 7 December 2011.
Digital curation manages, maintains, preserves, and adds value to digital information throughout its lifecycle, reducing threats to long-term value, mitigating the risk of digital obsolescence and enhancing usefulness for research and scholarship. IDCC11 will bring together practitioners who create information, those who curate and manage it, and those who use it together with those who research and teach about curation processes.
In its Call for Papers the IDCC11 Programme Committee invites submissions on current concerns in digital curation and specific concerns arising from our conference theme.
UKOLN and the Cultural Heritage Sector
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011A brief survey of UKOLN’s long history of engagement with the cultural heritage sector is provided by a feature on the UKOLN Web site. The survey also provides information on our continued involvement in the sector as well as a link to further information on this area of UKOLN activity.