Issue 21 of Focus on UKOLN, the electronic newsletter which provides news, opinion and information on the wide range of activities undertaken by UKOLN, was published recently.
Archive for the ‘Dissemination’ Category
New Issue of Focus on UKOLN Available
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010New JISC-funded Shared Infrastructure Services Landscape Study Completed by UKOLN
Friday, January 8th, 2010Rosemary Russell and Ann Chapman of UKOLN were the authors of a JISC-funded Shared Infrastructure Services (SIS) Landscape study on the use of Web 2.0 tools and services in UK Higher Education. This 33-page report, which is now available on the JISC Information Environment (IE) Repository Web site, is based on a survey across the UK HE community on the diverse ways in which Web 2.0 technologies are being used to support teaching and learning, research and administrative activities.
CILIP Update Eyes Google Wave and Libraries
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010CILIP’s Library & Information Update
blog recently mentioned “an interesting guest post on a UKOLN blog – by David Jenkins, Assistant Librarian in the Electronic Resources Development Team at Manchester Metropolitan University – about” Google Wave and libraries. The UKOLN blog Cultural Heritage had featured a post by Marieke Guy of UKOLN in which she invited David to summarise his findings regarding Google Wave usage among librarians. In his post to the CILIP Update blog, Matthew Mezey, News Editor, Library + Information Update Magazine, noted in particular David’s conclusions at the end of his summary for Cultural Heritage.
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.
Research 3.0 and the Data Revolution
Thursday, November 26th, 2009Today the JISC has launched a year-long campaign called ‘Research 3.0 – driving the knowledge economy’ , to debate how digital technologies are changing not only what research we do, but how it can be carried out. The UKOLN ‘Open Science at Web-Scale Report’ is a cornerstone of this campaign. In addition, the Times Higher has published a supplement: ‘The Data Revolution’ which highlights how JISC is supporting universities and the Research Councils to advance in the ever-changing technology landscape, and includes quotes from Dr Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN.
Open Science – the future for research?
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director of the Digital Curation Centre, has written a new report on Open Science as part of JISC’s ‘Research 3.0 – driving the knowledge economy’ activity which launches at the end of November. The consultative report, entitled Open Science at Web-Scale: Optimising Participation and Predictive Potential identifies open-ness, predictive science based on massive data volumes, and citizen involvement as being important features of tomorrow’s research practice.
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.
International Journal of Digital Curation, Issue 2, Volume 4
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009UKOLN has just published on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre issue 2 of Volume 4 of the International Journal of Digital Curation. In addition to 8 research papers and 6 general articles the issue also contains an exchange of letters to the Editor on the topic of archival authenticity of digital objects.