Brian Kelly and Nicola McNee will facilitate a session entitled Sixty Minutes to Save Libraries: Gathering Evidence to Demonstrate Library Services’ Impact and Value at the MashSpa event which will be held in the Chapel Arts Centre, Bath on Friday 29 October 2010.
Archive for the ‘Dissemination’ Category
Sixty Minutes to Save Libraries
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010Impact: Proving We Make a Difference
Friday, October 22nd, 2010An article
by Val Skelton published in Information Today describes how “Users, funders and decision makers are asking tough questions about our products and services and we must be ready to respond with credible usage statistics.” The article leads with a summary of a talk entitled Monitoring and Maximising Organisational Impact given by Brian Kelly at last week’s Internet Librarian International 2010, who argued that the sector “should wholeheartedly embrace this demand for transparency by being clear and open about usage and impact.”
Ontology Development at ICKM-2010
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010Emma Tonkin of UKOLN and Heather D. Pfeiffer of New Mexico State University will give a paper entitled Data-driven or background knowledge ontology development at the 7th International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM-2010) to be held over 22-23 October 2010 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Building Blocks of Metadata
Friday, October 15th, 2010Emma Tonkin and Andrew Hewson of UKOLN will give a paper entitled Building blocks of metadata in the session Principles and Innovations on 21 October 2010 at the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2010). This paper discusses a means of approaching the creation of new metadata schemas or application profiles – without making it seem too much like hard work. Further details are available.
Event Amplification Using Social Media
Friday, October 15th, 2010Brian Kelly will give a talk Event Amplification Using Social Media at a JISC Services Marketing and Communications meeting. The meeting will be held from 10.00-15.00 on Thursday 20 October 2010 at the JISC offices, Brettenham House, London.
International Open Access Week
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010The week beginning 18 October 2010 is international Open Access Week, with events and activities taking place worldwide on university and research campuses. Open Access enhances scholarly communication by making the results of publicly funded research available to all. Further details are available.
Web Preservation the UKOLN Way
Thursday, October 7th, 2010A guest blog post by Marieke Guy on UKOLN’s current Web preservation work has been published on the Museums Computer Group blog. The post looks at UKOLN’s activities for the Cultural Heritage sector as well as recent work on preserving tweets and blogs.
“To promote open education is needed more interaction”
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010Brian Kelly has been featured in an interview published in El Punt, an online journal published in Girona, Catalonia, Spain. The interview took place when Brian gave a seminar on What Can We Learn From Amplified Events? at the University of Girona on 3 September 2010. For those who do not understand the Catalan language an English language version is available which is produced by the Google Translate service. Although the quality of the translation is less than ideal, it does help to convey the underlying message.
Further Funding for DevCSI
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010We are pleased to announce that DevCSI, a project to support developers in Higher Education, has received funding for a further year’s work. The project is based at UKOLN and funded by JISC. This year the project will focus on organising more events for developers in Higher Education as well as carrying out research not only into the value that developers provide their institutions but also the role they play in innovation.