Stephanie Taylor of UKOLN will be speaking about the work of the Metadata Forum at the CETIS event What metadata is really useful?
to be held in London on 18 October 2010. The event will focus on what data we have (or could acquire) to answer the question of what metadata is really required to support the discovery, selection, use and management of educational resources. More information about the Metadata Forum is available.
Archive for October, 2010
JISC Managing Research Data Programme: SageCite
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010The Sagecite Project will be joining other projects funded recently under the JISC Managing Research Data Programme in the Citing, linking, integrating and publishing research data (CLIP) strand for a Launch Workshop organised by JISC.
MashSpa: The Mashed Library Event in Bath
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010The 6th Mashed Library event known as MashSpa will be held in Bath on Friday 29 October. Designed for librarians and technical staff, this one-day event is an opportunity for them to meet, share knowledge and create new mashups. The morning programme will be given over to a few talks while the afternoon will be dedicated to mashing and creating new ideas for your library and some workshops. We would stress that no technical expertise is required of participants. There are still a few places available. You can book online now.
International Open Access Week
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010The week beginning 18 October 2010 is international Open Access Week, with events and activities taking place worldwide on university and research campuses. Open Access enhances scholarly communication by making the results of publicly funded research available to all. Further details are available.
Web Preservation the UKOLN Way
Thursday, October 7th, 2010A guest blog post by Marieke Guy on UKOLN’s current Web preservation work has been published on the Museums Computer Group blog. The post looks at UKOLN’s activities for the Cultural Heritage sector as well as recent work on preserving tweets and blogs.
Learning Repositories in Agriculture Food & Environment (AgLR 2010)
Thursday, October 7th, 2010Stephanie Taylor of UKOLN will be participating in the e-conference Learning Repositories in Agriculture Food & Environment: Quality Promises and Considerations in Learning Repositories and Portals (AgLR 2010) which takes place 6-20 October 2010. The e-conference is hosted by the Agricultural Learning Repositories Task Force (AgLR-TF) and the e-Agriculture Community. As part of her work with the Metadata Forum, Stephanie will be joint moderator, along with Jackie Wickham of the Repository Support Project (RSP), of two discussions about the use of metadata in learning repositories. The e-conference is open to anyone with an interest in this area. Details on how to join in and further information on the topics to be discussed are available.
“To promote open education is needed more interaction”
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010Brian Kelly has been featured in an interview published in El Punt, an online journal published in Girona, Catalonia, Spain. The interview took place when Brian gave a seminar on What Can We Learn From Amplified Events? at the University of Girona on 3 September 2010. For those who do not understand the Catalan language an English language version is available which is produced by the Google Translate service. Although the quality of the translation is less than ideal, it does help to convey the underlying message.