Stephanie Taylor of UKOLN will be running a meeting of the Metadata Forum in a round-table session at RepoFringe 2010
, in Edinburgh, 2-3 September. The meeting is open to anyone who is in Edinburgh and has an interest in metadata! For updates on time, location, and evolving agenda, see the Metadata Forum blog. If you have thoughts, ideas or questions you would like to contribute but can’t attend in person, please leave a comment on the blog, email Stephanie direct, or use Twitter to tweet @metadataforum.
Archive for the ‘Dissemination’ Category
What Can We Learn from Amplified Events?
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010Brian Kelly has been invited to give a seminar entitled What Can We Learn from Amplified Events? at the University of Girona. The seminar will be held on Friday 3 September 2010 in the Casademont Building, Science and Technology Park, Girona, Catalonia, Spain. A blog post about the seminar is available.
Practical Metadata for Repository Administrators
Monday, August 16th, 2010Stephanie Taylor of UKOLN gave a short presentation on the basics of metadata, followed by a workshop session on the practical application of structured metadata and collaborative tagging within institutional repositories, at the RSP Workshop for Repository Administrators. The event was held at Oxford University on 11 August 2010. Slides are available via the RSP website.
Real World Approaches to Accessibility
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010An article entitled Real World Approaches to Accessibility has been published in the E-Access Bulletin, July 2010 issue. The article summarises a paper entitled Developing Countries; Developing Experiences: Approaches to Accessibility for the Real World which was awarded a prize for the best communications paper at the W4A 2010 conference held in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA in April 2010.
KIM, ERIM and the Silo of Doom
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010Alex Ball of UKOLN and the UK Digital Curation Centre gave a presentation entitled ‘KIM, ERIM and the Silo of Doom: lessons from two long-lived data projects’ at the DPC event ‘Designed to Last: Computer-Aided Design’, held at the British Library Centre for Conservation on 16 July 2010. Both the slides and a script for his presentation are now available.
Mashed Library 2010 – Chips and Mash
Monday, July 19th, 2010Julian Cheal of UKOLN will be giving a lightning talk as part of the Mashed Library 2010 – Chips and Mash programme offered at Mashed Library 2010, which will be held at Huddersfield University on 30 July 2010, on a few uses of RFID readers and Library data. The talk will mainly comprise demonstrations of some RFID code Julian has written.
Briefing Paper: Exploiting the Potential of the Social Web
Thursday, July 15th, 2010A briefing paper entitled Exploiting the Potential of the Social Web has been published by the Association of Independent Museums (AIM). It is now available in PDF and in a Welsh-language PDF version. The paper was written by Brian Kelly, UKOLN, together with Glynis Powell, Museum Development Officer for Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull.
Winners of the DevCSI Developer Challenge
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010The DevCSI Project is pleased to announce that we have a winner for the this year’s DevCSI-organised Developer Challenge at Open Repositories 2010 in Madrid. Congratulations go to Richard Davis and Rory McNicholl from the University of London Computer Centre (ULCC). Rory is a Digital Archive Technologist and Richard is the Repository Service Manager. For information about this and other entries, please visit the DevCSI blog entry for the Challenge.
Enabling Research Data Management at the Coalface
Monday, July 12th, 2010Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director, UK Digital Curation Centre gave a presentation entitled UK Digital Curation Centre: enabling research data management at the coalface on the first day of the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2010 held in Redmond, Washington, USA. Slides from her presentation are now available.
Presentation on Supporting Technical Innovation in the UK
Thursday, July 8th, 2010Paul Walk, Deputy Director, UKOLN, gave a presentation at the recent JISC/CNI meeting in Edinburgh where he described a UKOLN project Repositories UK to illustrate an approach the organisation has taken to fulfilling its role as one of JISC’s Innovation Support Centres. Paul’s presentation slides are now available.