We are pleased to announce that DevCSI, a project to support developers in Higher Education, has received funding for a further year’s work. The project is based at UKOLN and funded by JISC
. This year the project will focus on organising more events for developers in Higher Education as well as carrying out research not only into the value that developers provide their institutions but also the role they play in innovation.
Archive for September, 2010
Further Funding for DevCSI
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010The Case of AACR2 versus RDA
Friday, September 24th, 2010The paper The Case of AACR2 Versus RDA by Ann Chapman of UKOLN has been published in the latest issue of Legal Information Management, v.10(3) 2010 (pp.210-213). In her paper, Ann examines the introduction of the Resource Description and Access cataloguing code to replace the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules and explains why the latter were becoming unsuitable for the digital age whilst RDA has been specifically developed to deal with all types of media. The paper is available in print and electronic formats.
UK e-Science AHM 2010 Considers New Opportunities on the Other Side of the Chasm
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010The 9th UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM 2010), with the theme of e-Science: novel research, new science and enduring impact, is being held at the City Hall, Cardiff, over 13-16 September 2010. The closing panel of the conference will be a discussion of New Opportunities on the Other Side of the Chasm. It will be held in the Council Chamber at 10.45am Thursday 16 September following a short presentation on Digital Social Research by Professor David De Roure, Oxford e-Research Centre. The panellists are Professor Mark Birkin, GENeSIS Project, Dr Liz Lyon, UKOLN, Professor Gary Olson, University of Michigan and Dr Alex Voss, NCeSS.
UKOLN Update: UKOLN’s Activities for August 2010
Monday, September 13th, 2010UKOLN Update, a monthly newsletter about UKOLN activities, is now available in blog format and provides a view of staff work during the month of August 2010.
Tap into Bath Preservation Case Study
Thursday, September 9th, 2010Ann Chapman has written a case study on the archiving of the Tap into Bath Web site. Tap into Bath was a demonstrator project to
create a searchable database of collection-level descriptions as part of the Collection Description Focus work programme back in 2004.
The site is now being archived for future reference.
Treasuring Twitter: The Why and How of Preserving Tweets
Monday, September 6th, 2010An article written by Marieke Guy which discusses the preservation of tweets has been published in this month’s FUMSI Magazine. FUMSI, the successor to FreePint, publishes articles designed to support information professionals in their work.
Supporting Research Data Management at ECDL 2010
Monday, September 6th, 2010Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director, Digital Curation Centre, will facilitate the panel on Developing Services to Support Research Data Management and Sharing during ECDL 2010 in Glasgow. The subject of the panel will be the current gap between the readiness of the current information environment to deal with large amounts of heterogeneous data and the disposition of academics in research institutions to update their practices of data management and curation. The panel will focus on this gap between digital library systems and researchers’ current practice in managing data and will explore appropriate services that can help to bridge it.
Kelly Tells THE: More to University Web Sites than League Tables
Monday, September 6th, 2010In a letter published in the 2-8 September 2010 issue of Times Higher Education, Brian Kelly points out the limitations of publishing league tables for university Web sites. The challenge is not in jostling for position in an artificial league table, but ensuring that Web teams are willing to share best practice in exploiting the potential of the Social Web. Further details are available.
Registration for the 6th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) Now Open
Friday, September 3rd, 2010Registration is now open for this year’s International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC). It will take place over 6-8 December in Chicago. The theme of the 2010 conference is Participation and Practice: Growing the Curation Community through the Data Decade. Details on registration and all other aspects are available from the Digital Curation Centre Web site.
Review of What Can We Learn from Amplified Events?
Friday, September 3rd, 2010Marieke Guy of UKOLN has written a blog post about the amplification of Brian Kelly’s talk entitled What Can We Learn from Amplified Events? presented recently at the University of Girona. Discussions on Twitter can use the #udgamp10 event hashtag.