The main plenary talks at the Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) 2009, taking place over 28-30 July at the University of Essex, will be live streamed. There will also be live blogging in the form of the iwmwlive Twitter account.
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Live Video Streaming at IWMW 2009
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009New IWMW 2009 Blog
Monday, July 27th, 2009Take a look at the new blog for the IWMW 2009 community designed to operate before, during and after the Institutional Web Management Workshop. Posts will be from speakers and delegates alike and will include videos and interviews.
Engineering a Complete Record
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009The July/August 2009 issue
of Library and Information Update, the journal of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), features an article by Alex Ball of UKOLN. In Engineering a complete record Alex covers some of the research carried out by the KIM Grand Challenge Project. The article describes how the project has investigated the issues of knowledge and information management that arise as engineering firms increasingly sell their products as services.
From Web Accessibility to Web Adaptability
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Brian Kelly is the lead author of a paper entitled From Web Accessibility to Web Adaptability. The paper, by Brian Kelly, Liddy Nevile, David Sloan, Sotiris Fanou, Ruth Ellison and Lisa Herrod, appears in Volume 4, Issue 4, 2009 of Disability and Rehability: Assistive Technology, the journal of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM ).
Using the Social Web
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009Brian Kelly will facilitate a two-hour workshop session entitled Using the Social Web to Maximise Access to Your Resources at a two-day Search Engine Optimisation workshop called Improving Your Online Presence which will be held at the JISC Offices, London over 27-28 July 2009. There are well-documented techniques, known as Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), which can be used in order to ensure that Web resources can be easily found in search engines such as Google. This session will explore a number of ways in which the Social Web can be used by organisations seeking to maximise access to their services.
Registry Community Workshop
Monday, July 13th, 2009Bookings for The Registry Community Workshop 2009 – organised by UKOLN and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
(DCMI) – are now open. The event takes place on Friday 24 July in York.
International Journal of Digital Curation Publishes Issue 1, Volume 4 (2009)
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009The International Journal of Digital Curation produced by UKOLN on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre has published the first issue of this year’s Volume 4. Issue 1, Volume 4 contains 10 peer-reviewed papers as well as general articles of interest to practitioners in digital curation and preservation and access, the management of data, etc.
C21st Scholarship: Data as an Agent for Change
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009Liz Lyon recently gave a presentation entitled C21st Scholarship: Data as an Agent for Change at the Third Bloomsbury Conference on e-Publishing and e-Publications . Her slides are now available.
Connecting Remote Workers for UCISA
Monday, June 29th, 2009Marieke Guy will be facilitating a workshop entitled Connecting Remote Workers at UCISA’s Advisory and Support Staff Symposium 2009 DEMOS . The symposium will take place from 7 – 8 July at the Aston Business School Conference Centre, Birmingham. The theme for this year is “It’s not what you do, it’s the way that you do it”, so flexible ways of working will feature significantly.
Data Informatics Top Ten at i-expo
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, recently gave a presentation in Paris entitled Data Informatics Top Ten: (for Libraries) during the 2009 i-expo session E-Research / E-Infrastructure and roles for libraries and the scientific information community. Liz’ presentation is now available.