Scheduled network maintenance on 19 December 2011 has now been completed and all UKOLN services have been restored to normal operation. We apologise for any inconvenience this morning’s maintenance may have caused.
Archive for December, 2011
UKOLN Services Return to Normal
Monday, December 19th, 2011Possible Disruption to UKOLN Services
Monday, December 19th, 2011Due to scheduled network maintenance on 19 December 2011, there may be temporary disruption to UKOLN services during Monday. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Update on ‘Cookie’ Legislation
Monday, December 19th, 2011On Tuesday 13 December the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published a blog post entitled “Half term report on cookies compliance” which announced the release of updated guidance on the Government’s ‘cookie’ legislation. The implications of the guidance for those responsible for providing institutional Web sites have been described in a post on “The Half Term Report on Cookie Compliance” which has been published on the UK Web Focus blog.
Dealing with Very Personal Data
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011Professor Adam Hedgecoe, Associate Director CESAGEN and Dr Liz Lyon, Associate Director, Digital Curation Centre, gave a presentation to the 7th DCC Symposium entitled Share your genome? Dealing with very personal data. The Symposium, chaired by Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, CNI, formed part of the first day’s programme of the 7th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC11). Slides from this presentation are now available on the UKOLN Web site.
Introducing the Community Capability Model Project
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, gave a number of presentations during the recent 7th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC11). One was to a pre-conference workshop in order to introduce the Community Capability Model Project. Slides from this presentation are now available on the UKOLN Web site.
Progress in the Data Citation Community
Monday, December 12th, 2011Writing in Issue 40, December 2011 of the DPC/DCC publication What’s New, Monica Duke of UKOLN and DCC reviews some of the developments and events which have brought together practitioners with an interest in scholarly communication, data citation and data publishing. In her editorial “The Data Citation Community Gathers Pace“, she suggests that a community is now forming and gathering pace.
IDCC11 Releases Range of Resources
Friday, December 9th, 2011At the close of another successful International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC11), a range of resources arising from the Conference have been made available on the Digital Curation Centre Web site, including, among others, presentations, posters, videos and tweets (hash tag #idcc11).
UKOLN Update November 2011
Friday, December 2nd, 2011The recently released issue of UKOLN Update, a monthly newsletter, provides an overview of UKOLN work during November 2011. It highlights key blog posts, presentations, and events related to staff activities.
Most frequently used words in UKOLN blogs, November 2011