Marieke Guy, UKOLN Remote Worker Champion, will be presenting at a one-day workshop Improving Services and Reducing Costs through Flexible Working. The event organised by Public Sector Forums 
will take place at Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham on Tuesday 23 June 2009. Marieke, who was invited to speak as a consequence of her work on the Ramblings of a Remote Worker blog, will give a talk entitled How to Be a Connected Remote Worker in 10 Easy Steps. Resources from the day and follow-up blog posts will be published on her blog after the event.
Archive for the ‘Dissemination’ Category
Improving Services and Reducing Costs through Flexible Working
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009Team Science at ICSTI 2009
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, spoke recently on Libraries and Team Science at the 2009 conference of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) in Ottawa. In her presentation Liz examined the roles that libraries and information professionals can play in the changing landscape of multi-scale, multi-disciplinary and multi-skilled team science. Slides from this presentation are now available.
IDCC 2009 Call for Papers
Thursday, June 4th, 2009The DCC invites submission of full papers, posters, workshops and demos to the 5th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC 2009). It also welcomes contributions and participation from individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains that are engaged in the creation, use and management of digital data, especially those involved in the challenge of curating data for e-science and e-research. Proposals will be considered for short (up to 6 pages) or long (up to 12 pages) papers and also for demonstrations, workshops and posters. The full text of papers will be peer-reviewed; abstracts for all posters, workshops and demos will be reviewed by the co-chairs. Final copy of accepted contributions will be made available to conference delegates, and papers will be published in our International Journal of Digital Curation .
New blog for JISC SIS Landscape Study
Thursday, June 4th, 2009This blog has been set up to collect evidence for a small, JISC-funded study on how the UK academic sector is using Web 2.0 tools and services either in addition to, or instead of, JISC shared services. Please visit the blog, read the pages and submit your comments.
Repositories Support Project Prized for Innovation
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
The Repositories Support Project (RSP) and SWORD both with UKOLN staff involvement won special prizes at the recent JISC Repositories and Preservation Meeting at the Aston Business School. Delegates were invited to vote for one project each in the Repositories and Preservation Programme that had been most innovative and had most impact. Voting took place either through a ballot box or via twitter. The results were announced during the evening dinner and there was general agreement among delegates that the two projects were deserving of recognition, though indeed all projects listed demonstrated elements of innovation and impact. More information about the meeting is available including links to presentations and videos on YouTube.
JISC Publishes Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009A report entitled Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World has been published by JISC. The 50-page report, produced by “an independent Committee of Inquiry into the impact on higher education of students’ widespread use of Web 2.0 technologies” provides a summary of student expectations and gives a series of recommendations on how the Higher Education community should react. Key findings, critical issues, conclusions and recommendations from the report are summarized on the JISC Web site together with the full report.
An accompanying article has been published in the Education Guardian of 12 May 2009 which includes an interview with Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus at UKOLN. Brian describes how many of the characteristics of Web 2.0, such as a culture of openness, reflect well-established approaches which are being taken in the sector. However he also warns of the dangers of seeking to exploit the marketing potential of social networking services, such as Facebook, in more formal teaching and learning activities.
Digital Repositories Roadmap: Rachel Heery Provides New Review
Thursday, May 7th, 2009Practitioners in the field of digital repositories familiar with the document Digital Repositories Roadmap: looking forward by Rachel Heery, UKOLN, University of Bath, and her former colleague Andy Powell, Eduserv Foundation, may be interested by an announcement by JISC of the publication of further work by Rachel Heery. The original Roadmap, published in April 2006, presented a vision for the role of digital repositories in 2010. Given the significant developments in policy, practice and technology relevant to digital repositories that have occurred since the original Roadmap, JISC funded Rachel Heery, Assistant Director and Team Leader for Research and Development at UKOLN until her retirement, to produce a review of the original Roadmap and to extend the vision until 2013. The new review, entitled Digital Repositories Roadmap Review: towards a vision for research and learning in 2013, makes a number of recommendations for consideration by the JISC Executive and goes on to identify milestones of relevance to the wider community that might act as a measure of progress towards the broader vision of enhanced scholarly communication. Full details are available on the new JISC Web site .
IEMSR at JISC 2009
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
The JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry Project gave a demonstration of the registry and a suite of associated software tools at the recent 2009 JISC Conference. Slides and screenshots from the presentation are available on the IEMSR Web site.
SaaSy APIs at Museums and the Web 2009
Thursday, March 26th, 2009A paper by Paul Walk of UKOLN entitled Software as a Service and Open APIs has been accepted for the M2009 Museums and the Web Conference to be held in Indianapolis, USA over 15-18 April 2009. This paper will form the background to a mini-workshop APIs – how and why which will be conducted by his colleague Brian Kelly. The workshop will consider ways in which open APIs and Software as a Service (SaaS) are being exploited within the sector and seek a better understanding of the best approaches to take to maximise the potential benefits of this technology.
Software as a Service and Open APIs by Paul Walk
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/walk/walk.html
Conference Biography: Paul Walk
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/bios/au_440016873.html
The Tools of Our Trade: AACR2/RDA and MARC
Monday, March 23rd, 2009http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/bib-man/presentations/lmu-2009/
Ann Chapman of UKOLN recently gave a guest lecture on Resource Description and Access (RDA) to students taking the cataloguing module of the Library and Information Science course at London Metropolitan University. Entitled “The Tools of Our Trade: AACR2/RDA and MARC”, the lecture covered the history behind RDA, the international collaborative process by which it is being developed, an overview of the text and a look at the RDA approach to cataloguing. This was followed by an overview of the history and development process for the MARC format. Slides from this presentation are now available.