The growth and use of digital content on the Web together with the digital deluge pose opportunities as well as challenges. How best are they both to be exploited and managed? UKOLN is organising the Survive or Thrive 2010 Conference
on behalf of JISC to address such issues. The Conference will take place at the Macdonald Hotel, Manchester over Tuesday 8 – Wednesday 9 June 2010. Further information is obtainable from the UKOLN Web site.
Archive for the ‘Dissemination’ Category
Citation of Network Models and Associated Data
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010The recent Sage Commons Congress in San Francisco aimed to establish the foundation for a new public domain resource, the Sage Commons. Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, led the workstream on Citation of Network Models and Associated Data. The slides from her presentation are now available.
Keynote Speakers at JISC/CNI 2010
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010Liz Lyon will be a keynote speaker at the JISC/CNI Meeting 2010 recently announced by JISC and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) which will take place over 1-2 July 2010 and will be held at the Barcelo Carlton Hotel, Edinburgh. The conference will be organised by UKOLN and will bring together experts from the United States, Europe and the United Kingdom. The conference theme this year is Managing Data in Difficult Times: policies, strategies, technologies and infrastructure to manage research and teaching data in a fast changing technological and economic environment. Conference keynote speakers include: Dan Atkins, Professor and Associate Vice President, University of Michigan, Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Director for Library Digital Programs, John Hopkins University, Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC and Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN.
Codes, Clouds and Constellations at the CNI Spring Meeting
Thursday, April 15th, 2010Liz Lyon was invited to give a presentation at the closing plenary session of the recent Spring Meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) in Baltimore, Maryland. The slides from her presentation entitled Codes, Clouds and Constellations: Open Science in the Data Decade are now available.
An Evidence-based Approach to Collaborative Ontology Development
Friday, April 9th, 2010Andrew Hewson of UKOLN gave a poster presentation entitled An evidence-based approach to collaborative ontology development on behalf of the authors Emma Tonkin of UKOLN, Heather D. Pfeiffer, New Mexico State University and Andy himself at the Workshop on Matching and Meaning 2010 (WMM 2010) held at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK over 31 March – 1 April. The aim of this workshop was to bring together researchers interested in the problems of automated development, evolution and interpretation of ontologies in the many different domains in which they occur. This poster is now available.
Approaches to Accessibility in Developing Countries at W4A 2010
Friday, April 9th, 2010Brian Kelly is lead author of a paper entitled Developing Countries; Developing Experiences: Approaches to Accessibility for the Real World which has been accepted at the Web4All (W4A) 2010 Conference, the 7th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility. The authors of the paper are Brian Kelly (UKOLN), Sarah Lewthwaite (University of Nottingham) and David Sloan (University of Dundee). The W4A Conference takes place over 26 – 27 April in Raleigh, NC, USA.
The Why, What, How and When of RDA
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010Slides are now available for Ann Chapman’s recent talk entitled The Why, What, How and When of RDA: the current state of play given to delegates from academic and public libraries at the CILIP Executive Briefing Day on Resource Description and Access (RDA) held in London on 23 March 2010 and repeated on 30 March 2010. The day focused on the need for RDA, the strategic aspects of moving to RDA and the challenges of implementation.
State of the Art of Preservation and Curation in Institutional Repositories
Monday, March 29th, 2010The DCC has released a report by Alex Ball of UKOLN on the state of the art of preservation and curation in institutional repositories. Despite their initial focus on rapid access to research, repositories are increasingly seen to have a curatorial role for institutions’ digital assets. As a result, a range of tools has been developed to assist in everything from drawing up preservation plans and policies to extracting preservation metadata from files, alongside modular architectures for linking the tools together. The report, entitled Preservation and Curation in Institutional Repositories, presents the major advances in these areas and examines recent developments.
BRTF: Making the Business Case for Digital Preservation
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access (BRTF-SDPA), a new international initiative funded by JISC and other organisations, has recently released its report entitled Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Information. Neil Grindley, programme manager at JISC, said, “This report takes a clear-headed and hard look at some of the ideas surrounding preservation ..” JISC is organising a free one-day symposium in London on 6 May 2010 where the Blue Ribbon task force will be presenting its final report alongside responses from the BBC, the Natural History Museum, the British Library, European Bioinformatics Institute and the European Commission. Further information is available.
State of the Art of Web Archiving
Thursday, March 18th, 2010The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has released a report on the state of the art of Web archiving by Alex Ball of UKOLN. Web archiving is important not only for future research but also for organisations’ records management processes; however, it is beset by technical, organisational, legal and social issues. The report indicates how these issues are being addressed in current research and development projects.