The Open Educational Resources (OER) Hackday, a two-day event organised by UKOLN and DevCSI over 31 March – 1 April 2011, which will look at hacking content, systems and services for open educational resources, is now fully booked. If you would like to be placed on a waiting list, advice is available on the event’s booking page.
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Open Educational Resources Hackday: Fully Booked
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011UKOLN International Seminar: Dr Andrew Treloar on Data Management
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011Dr Andrew Treloar, Director of Technology for the Australian National Data Service (ANDS), will be giving a seminar entitled Data Management: International Challenges, National Infrastructure and Institutional Responses – an Australian Perspective. It will be hosted by UKOLN at the University of Bath on Friday 1 April starting at 11.00. Booking details are available from the UKOLN Web site.
This seminar will consider the international challenges arising from the shift towards data-intensive research and the rapid uptake of instruments that produce very large data volumes. It will explain the role of and rationale for the Australian National Data Service, its different programmes, and the services that are being developed and taken up. It will also consider how different institutions in Australia are engaging with the Service. The seminar should be relevant to anyone with an interest in data management.
Further details on the seminar, Dr Treloar, how to book a place or to learn more about the proposed video stream are available from the UKOLN Web site.
International Journal of Digital Curation, Volume 6, Issue 1
Monday, March 14th, 2011UKOLN has just published – on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre – Volume 6, Issue 1 of the International Journal of Digital Curation. This issue features sixteen peer-reviewed papers and five general articles. A summary is available from the UKOLN Web site.
UKOLN Social Web Workshops 2010-2011
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011The last of the UKOLN Social Web workshops in the 2010-2011 series was held on 22 February 2011 at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. A look back at the events has been posted on the UKOLN Cultural Heritage blog. Access to all materials relating to these events is still available and links are included in the blog post.
Create a “Virtual Presence” at Work
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011Marieke Guy of UKOLN was delighted to receive a guest post on her blog Ramblings of a Remote Worker from Jonathon Wilson, a software engineer in Austin, Texas, who has created his own virtual presence in his workplace and has written up his approach of using Skype and VNC.
JISC 2011 Conference: Amplified Events
Monday, March 7th, 2011Brian Kelly and Marieke Guy, UKOLN and Paul Shabajee, ILRT will facilitate a workshop session entitled Amplified Events, Seminars, Conferences, …: What? Why? How? at the JISC 2011 Conference which will be held at the BT Convention Centre, Kings Dock, Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool on 14-15 March 2011. The session will review a variety of approaches taken at a number of national, international and regional events. All resources from the workshop including an accompanying poster are available from the UKOLN Web site.
BS 8878 and the Holistic Approaches to Web Accessibility
Monday, March 7th, 2011Brian Kelly gave a talk entitled BS 8878 and the Holistic Approaches to Web Accessibility at a recent JISC CETIS Accessibility SIG meeting held at the BSI Headquarters in London. As described in an accompanying blog post, the recently published BS 8878 Code of Practice on Web Accessibility provides a level of redirect which enables organisations to address the limitation of the WCAG guidelines for Web accessibility.
Note that a video of the talk and access to the slides are also available from the accompanying blog post.
Ariadne Issue 66 Available
Monday, February 28th, 2011Issue 66 of Ariadne Web Magazine was published recently covering topics from file format profiles, server logs analysis, event amplification, virtual 3D imaging and much more besides together with event reports and reviews. Further information is available from the UKOLN Web site and from Ariadne.
Temporary Failure of Email
Friday, February 25th, 2011We regret that for Friday 25 February it will not be possible to contact UKOLN over email because of a fault with the University of Bath email service. Please note however that staff may be contacted by telephone. All staff contact pages are available from the UKOLN Web site. We will use a further newsfeed item to announce resumption of email service.
Approaches to Digitisation
Monday, February 7th, 2011Marieke Guy of UKOLN will give a presentation entitled Other sources of information and next steps at the British Library Preservation Advisory Centre/RLUK Training Day on Approaches to Digitisation to be held on Wednesday 9 February 2011.