Slides are now available for Ann Chapman’s recent talk entitled Tools of Our Trade on Resource Description and Access (RDA) to library and information science students at London Metropolitan University. Ann provides some background to her presentation and a link to the slides themselves in her latest posting to the blog Culturage Heritage.
Archive for the ‘Dissemination’ Category
Curation of research data in the disciplines of Engineering
Thursday, March 4th, 2010The DCC SCARP Case Study Curation of research data in the disciplines of Engineering
is now published. This seventh DCC SCARP Case Study highlights the barriers that exist to sharing Engineering data, and the impact these barriers have on the range of appropriate curation approaches. Sensitivity to these issues is key if Engineering data are to be fully exploited without jeopardising future research and development.
Web 2.0 and the Social Web
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Only a few places remain for the one-day workshop entitled An Introduction to Web 2.0 and the Social Web to be held in Nottingham on Wednesday 17 March 2010. This workshop is designed for members of the museums, libraries and archives communities. It will seek to demystify the terminology and the technologies as well as address the challenges which institutions may face in seeking to make use of Web 2.0 to support the needs of their users. The workshop will be facilitated by Marieke Guy of UKOLN. Details of the Nottingham event and how to book the last few places are available.
Issue 62 of Ariadne Now Available
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010Issue 62 of Ariadne is now available with its usual mix of main articles, event reports and reviews on a wide range of topics. LMS users may be interested to read of the implementation of Xerxes at Royal Holloway while researchers have notice of activity JISC is planning to carry out on Research 3.0. There are also articles, among others, on Web preservation and reference management, an information model of digital identifiers, a user-driven methodology for the iterative development, testing and implementation of Dublin Core Application Profiles in diverse repository software environments, the current situation in ebook readers, some recent developments in democratising the archive, the value of intranets as a strategic asset and a tool designed to display information about researchers and their activities.
CILIP Executive Briefing on RDA
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010Ann Chapman of UKOLN will be speaking on the development of RDA at the CILIP Executive Briefing on Resource Description and Access to be held on 23 March 2010 at CILIP HQ in London. The Briefing will be of interest to senior managers, cataloguing managers, cataloguers and the supplier community.
RDMF: Opening Bio-Health Data and Models Securely and Effectively
Monday, February 8th, 2010The Welcome and Introduction to the fourth meeting of the Research Data Management Forum (RDMF) to be held over 10 – 11 March 2010 at the University of Manchester will be provided by Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director, DCC, and Stéphane Goldstein, Head of Programmes, RIN. They will welcome the opening keynote speaker Professor Iain Buchan, Professor of Public Health Informatics and Director of the Northwest Institute for Bio-Health Informatics (NIBHI), University of Manchester. Professor Buchan’s keynote address is entitled Opening Bio-Health Data and Models Securely and Effectively for Public Benefit. Further information is available.
UKOLN Response to Empower, Inform, Enrich Report
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010UKOLN has submitted a response (by Dr Liz Lyon and Ann Chapman) to the DCMS regarding the consultation report on the future of public libraries entitled Empower, Inform, Enrich.
6th International Digital Curation Conference: 6 – 8 December 2010
Thursday, January 21st, 2010The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has announced the dates for the 6th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC10) as Monday 6 – Wednesday 8 December 2010. The theme of the Conference this year will be Participation & Practice: growing the Curation Community through the data decade. Our venue will be Chicago, USA, where the Conference is being presented jointly with the Graduate School of Library and Information Science of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and in partnership with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). The Call for Papers will be released in March and registration will open in September 2010.
Linked Data and the Semantic Web: What Are They and Should I Care?
Monday, January 18th, 2010Adrian Stevenson of UKOLN will give a presentation entitled Linked Data and the Semantic Web: What Are They and Should I Care? at the next MIMAS Developer Forum meeting on Wednesday 17 February at 2pm. The Developer Forum is an internal MIMAS group, but it may be possible for others to attend by arrangement. For more information please contact
jane.stevenson@manchester.ac.uk
Paper on Exploiting the Potential of the Social Web
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Shortly before Christmas 2009 Brian Kelly presented a paper Empowering Users and their Institutions: A Risks and Opportunities Framework for Exploiting the Potential of the Social Web at the CULTURAL HERITAGE on line Conference which was held in Florence. This paper is now available from the UKOLN Web site.