Ann Chapman of UKOLN will be speaking on the development of RDA at the CILIP Executive Briefing on Resource Description and Access
to be held on 23 March 2010 at CILIP HQ in London. The Briefing will be of interest to senior managers, cataloguing managers, cataloguers and the supplier community.
Archive for the ‘Conference’ Category
RDMF: Opening Bio-Health Data and Models Securely and Effectively
Monday, February 8th, 2010The Welcome and Introduction to the fourth meeting of the Research Data Management Forum (RDMF) to be held over 10 – 11 March 2010 at the University of Manchester will be provided by Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director, DCC, and Stéphane Goldstein, Head of Programmes, RIN. They will welcome the opening keynote speaker Professor Iain Buchan, Professor of Public Health Informatics and Director of the Northwest Institute for Bio-Health Informatics (NIBHI), University of Manchester. Professor Buchan’s keynote address is entitled Opening Bio-Health Data and Models Securely and Effectively for Public Benefit. Further information is available.
6th International Digital Curation Conference: 6 – 8 December 2010
Thursday, January 21st, 2010The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has announced the dates for the 6th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC10) as Monday 6 – Wednesday 8 December 2010. The theme of the Conference this year will be Participation & Practice: growing the Curation Community through the data decade. Our venue will be Chicago, USA, where the Conference is being presented jointly with the Graduate School of Library and Information Science of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and in partnership with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). The Call for Papers will be released in March and registration will open in September 2010.
Paper on Exploiting the Potential of the Social Web
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Shortly before Christmas 2009 Brian Kelly presented a paper Empowering Users and their Institutions: A Risks and Opportunities Framework for Exploiting the Potential of the Social Web at the CULTURAL HERITAGE on line Conference which was held in Florence. This paper is now available from the UKOLN Web site.
IWMW 2010: Call for Speakers and Workshop Facilitators
Monday, January 11th, 2010The call for speakers and workshop facilitators for the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2010 is now open. The workshop will be held at the University of Sheffield from Monday 12 to Wednesday 14 July 2010. Further ideas and information are available from the IWMW 2010 Web site.
Serving Digital Citizens
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, spoke recently at the MLA/LGA Conference on modernisation of public library services entitled 1964 and all that: modernising your public library service. In the session on The Digital Future for Libraries Liz gave a short talk entitled Serving Digital Citizens: Public Libraries in the 21stC?. Slides from her talk are now available.
Empowering Users and Institutions
Thursday, December 10th, 2009Brian Kelly will present a paper entitled Empowering Users and Institutions: A Risks and Opportunities Framework for Exploiting the Social Web at the Cultural Heritage Online 2009 Conference which will be held in Florence over 15 – 16 December 2009.
1964 and All That: Modernising Your Public Library Service
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009Dame Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library and Dr Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, have been invited to speak at the MLA/LGA Conference on modernisation of public library services. The Conference will take place on 14 December 2009 at the Local Government House Conference Centre, Smith Square, London. Lynne Brindley and Liz Lyon will provide a session entitled The Digital Future for Libraries.
Open Science at Web Scale Closes eResearch Australia 2009
Friday, November 6th, 2009Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, has been invited to give the locknote address at the close of the eResearch Australia 2009 Conference to be held in Sydney over 9 – 13 November. Her locknote presentation entitled Open Science at Web Scale: breaking all boundaries? will seek to challenge our established notions of the research landscape by extending the boundaries to explore the full potential of 21st Century team science.
IDCC 09 – Programme of Workshops
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) will be hosting a workshop programme on 2 December, followed by a Pre-Conference Drinks Reception at the Natural History Museum. Places are limited so please register now. Registration to close on 20 November 2009.