Brian Kelly and Nicola McNee will facilitate a session entitled Sixty Minutes to Save Libraries: Gathering Evidence to Demonstrate Library Services’ Impact and Value at the MashSpa event which will be held in the Chapel Arts Centre, Bath on Friday 29 October 2010.
Archive for October, 2010
Sixty Minutes to Save Libraries
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010UKOLN Article in New Review of Academic Librarianship
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010An article by Rosemary Russell and Michael Day of UKOLN has been published in the first Open Access issue of the New Review of Academic Librarianship, which was sponsored by JISC. This special issue on dissemination models in scholarly communication was guest-edited by Hazel Woodward, Cranfield University. Further details are on the UKOLN Web site.
Impact: Proving We Make a Difference
Friday, October 22nd, 2010An article
by Val Skelton published in Information Today describes how “Users, funders and decision makers are asking tough questions about our products and services and we must be ready to respond with credible usage statistics.” The article leads with a summary of a talk entitled Monitoring and Maximising Organisational Impact given by Brian Kelly at last week’s Internet Librarian International 2010, who argued that the sector “should wholeheartedly embrace this demand for transparency by being clear and open about usage and impact.”
Sharing Health Records in the US and UK
Thursday, October 21st, 2010As part of the 7th International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM-2010) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Deborah Swain, Emma Tonkin and Linda Doll (moderator) will debate means, mechanisms and pitfalls in the sharing of health records in the US and UK. The panel will take place at 3.30pm on Friday 22 October.
Opportunities for and Barriers to Engineering Research Data Re-use
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010The ERIM (Engineering Research Information Management) Project has released its third deliverable, a report entitled Opportunities for and Barriers to Engineering Research Data Re-use. Within the six engineering studies examined by the report, there were found to be different opportunities for data re-use depending on whether the researchers were simply characterising a scenario or testing possible improvements. A range of barriers were encountered, ranging from commercial sensitivity to specialist hardware platforms. The ERIM Project is part of the JISC’s Managing Research Data Programme, looking at data management planning in EPSRC-funded projects. It is a collaboration between the Innovative design and Manufacturing Research Centre (IdMRC) at the University of Bath and UKOLN, representing the DCC.
Ontology Development at ICKM-2010
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010Emma Tonkin of UKOLN and Heather D. Pfeiffer of New Mexico State University will give a paper entitled Data-driven or background knowledge ontology development at the 7th International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM-2010) to be held over 22-23 October 2010 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Understanding and Characterizing Engineering Research Data for its Better Management
Monday, October 18th, 2010The ERIM (Engineering Research Information Management) Project has released a report entitled Understanding and Characterizing Engineering Research Data for its Better Management. The report introduces a new technique for modelling research activity information development and uses it to analyse the data records from six engineering studies. This modelling technique is supported by the ERIM Data Management Terminology as set out in the report. The ERIM Project is part of the JISC’s Managing Research Data Programme, looking at data management planning in EPSRC-funded projects. It is a collaboration between the Innovative design and Manufacturing Research Centre (IdMRC) at the University of Bath and UKOLN, representing the DCC.
Building Blocks of Metadata
Friday, October 15th, 2010Emma Tonkin and Andrew Hewson of UKOLN will give a paper entitled Building blocks of metadata in the session Principles and Innovations on 21 October 2010 at the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2010). This paper discusses a means of approaching the creation of new metadata schemas or application profiles – without making it seem too much like hard work. Further details are available.
Event Amplification Using Social Media
Friday, October 15th, 2010Brian Kelly will give a talk Event Amplification Using Social Media at a JISC Services Marketing and Communications meeting. The meeting will be held from 10.00-15.00 on Thursday 20 October 2010 at the JISC offices, Brettenham House, London.
DC-2010: Registry Community and Task Group Meeting
Thursday, October 14th, 2010At the forthcoming Dublin Core Conference (DC-2010), to be held 20-22 October 2010 in Pittsburgh, USA, there will be a meeting of the DCMI Registry Community and Task Group. It will take place on on Wednesday 20 October, 9:00am – 12:30pm. The meeting’s agenda is already available.