Brian 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.
Archive for March, 2011
JISC 2011 Conference: Amplified Events
Monday, March 7th, 2011BS 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.
UKOLN Update: February 2011
Saturday, March 5th, 2011The recently released issue of UKOLN Update, a monthly newsletter, provides an overview of UKOLN work during February 2011. It highlights key news features, blog posts, presentations, and events related to staff activities.
Most frequently used words in UKOLN blogs, February 2011
How to Manage Research Data: Data Licensing
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011Alex Ball of UKOLN and the DCC will give a presentation on Data Licensing on Day 3 of the 2nd DCC Roadshow being held over 1 – 3 March 2011 in Sheffield. Alex’ session will feature an introduction to data licensing and will provide participants with an awareness of why licensing data is important, the impact licences have on future research, and the potential pitfalls to avoid. The theme of the final day of the Roadshow is Digital Curation 101 Lite: How to Manage Research Data.
The Research Data Challenge
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011Liz Lyon will facilitate the opening plenary session entitled Facing the Data Challenge : Institutions, Disciplines, Services and Risks on the second day of the 2nd DCC Roadshow being held over 1 – 3 March 2011 at the Halifax Conference Centre, Sheffield. The theme of the day will be The Research Data Challenge: Developing an Institutional Response and will comprise a series of group work exercises supported by plenary sessions. She will then facilitate the opening plenary of the afternoon programme entitled Building Capacity and Capability in your Institution: Skills, Roles, Resources. The Programme and further information are available from the Digital Curation Centre Web site.