A one-day workshop, sponsored by the MLA, introducing Web 2.0 and the Social Web to museums, libraries and archives staff will be touring the country in the next few months. It will visit Preston, Devizes, London, Leeds and Leicester. It is free to attend but places are limited. Bookings are now open.
Archive for the ‘Dissemination’ Category
Series of Free Web 2.0 and Social Web Workshops
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining?
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009The Call for Papers has opened for the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG) Conference to be held 13-15 September 2010 in Exeter. Proposals should be submitted by 26 February 2010. Conference organisation will be by UKOLN.
UKOLN participating at DCMI 2009
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009UKOLN will be well-represented at this year’s International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications
in Seoul, South Korea. 
Emma Tonkin, Talat Chaudhri and Paul Walk will be participating actively while Brian Kelly has recorded a contribution in advance. UKOLN will be introducing an innovative approach to the design of ‘application profiles’ which focuses both on engaging users at the earliest opportunity and on using an evidence-based, test-driven development approach. [Photo: Copyright Andrew Hewson]
Text Mining for Scholarly Communications and Repositories Joint Workshop
Monday, October 5th, 2009UKOLN is co-hosting an open workshop with the National Centre for Text Mining NaCTeM on 28-29 October 2009. The Joint Workshop will be held at the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester. The Keynote presentation titled “eScience and Semantic Computing” will be given by Professor Tony Hey, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft External Research. A full programme of international speakers and registration form are available.
5th International Digital Curation Conference (2009) Open for Registration
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009Registration is now open for the 5th International Digital Curation Conference: “Moving to Multi-Scale Science: Managing Complexity and Diversity” to be held 2-4 December 2009 at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel, Kensington, London. The Conference is being held by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) in partnership with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and organised by UKOLN. Pre-Conference Workshops are also arranged. Full details and how to register are available.
UKOLN Research Officer Wins Remote Worker Award 2009
Monday, September 14th, 2009UKOLN staff were delighted to learn that their colleague Marieke Guy has won the Remote Worker 2009 award from the Remote Employment Web site in association with BT Business against serious competition for the prize.
Realising Dreams, Avoiding Nightmares, Accepting Responsibilities
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009Brian Kelly will facilitate a workshop session with Martin Weller entitled Realising Dreams, Avoiding Nightmares, Accepting Responsibilities at the ALT-C 2009 Conference which will be held at the University of Manchester on 8-10 September 2009.
Time to Be Flexible
Monday, August 17th, 2009In an article published in the e-Access Bulletin (August 2009) Brian Kelly argues that policy makers need to take a more flexible approach to Web accessibility than simply requiring conformance with WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) guidelines. Brian suggests that the Web Adaptability approach, described in a recent peer-reviewed paper which embraces the UN Convention’s definition of accessibility, provides an approach more suited to addressing the real-world deployment challenges posed by the technical complexities of today’s Web environment, the rich diversity of uses made of the Web as well as the differing needs and requirements of individual users.
Ariadne Issue 60 Published
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009Issue 60 of Ariadne was published recently with a variety of main articles on subjects as diverse as findings from a UKRDS survey of researchers, views on preservation of research data, the impact of overlay and data journals in the meteorological sciences, and the National Library of Norway’s digitisation strategy. It also offers an article by Ann Chapman and Rosemary Russell of UKOLN on the challenge of collecting evidence for a study of how Web 2.0 is being used in the UK HE sector.
Paper on “Library 2.0: Balancing the Risks and Benefits to Maximise the Dividends” published
Monday, August 10th, 2009A paper on “Library 2.0: Balancing the Risks and Benefits to Maximise the Dividends” has recently been published in the Program journal (Program Electronic Library and Information Systems, 43 (3), pp. 311-327). This paper was originally presented at the Bridging Worlds 2008 conference held at the National Library of Singapore in October 2008. The lead author of the paper is Brian Kelly and the other contributors are Paul Bevan (National Library of Wales), Richard Akerman (National Research Council Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, Ottawa, Canada), Jo Alcock (University of Wolverhampton) and Josie Fraser (consultant).