Some places remain for the workshop to disseminate the Digital Preservation Benefits Toolset and accompanying materials such as user guides and factsheets to the research community. The event, organised by UKOLN, will take place in London on Tuesday 12 July 2011. Full details are available in the news feature about the dissemination workshop on the UKOLN Web site.
Archive for July, 2011
JISC Digital Preservation Benefits Analysis Tools Project: Dissemination Workshop
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011Request for Proposals for HTML5 Case Studies
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011UKOLN invites proposals for HTML5 case studies and demonstrators which describe best practices and scenarios for making use of HTML5 and related Open Web Platform standards for supporting activities of relevance to those working in the Higher and Further Education sectors.
A sum of up to £5,000 is available for each accepted submission (although please note that the sum available to respondents based outside the UK may be less than this due to VAT complexities – please get in touch to discuss if this is a concern).
The closing date for submissions is 18 July 2011, and successful proposers must agree to provide final case studies by 16 September 2011.
Further information is available on the UKOLN Web site.
The Challenges for Libraries and HEIs at SCURL AGM and AwayDay
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, delivered a presentation at the recent Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries AGM and AwayDay held at the University of Glasgow. Her talk described the research data landscape and the associated challenges for libraries and Higher Education institutions. This event was followed by a Digital Curation Centre (DCC) Roadshow at the same location. Liz’s slides are now available.
Problems Accessing W3C LLD Blog
Monday, July 4th, 2011The WordPress plugin Digress.it which offers paragraph-level commenting allows for discussions of documents which are republished using WordPress. This plugin is in use in a variety of blogs such as JISCPress.org, WriteToReply and UKOLN’s W3C linked library data incubator blog. However there is currently a bug with Digress.it which sometimes means the blog will not display. The developers of Digress.it are currently looking into resolving this problem. We will provide an update as soon as possible.