Registration is now open for the 5th International Digital Curation Conference: “Moving to Multi-Scale Science: Managing Complexity and Diversity” to be held 2-4 December 2009 at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel, Kensington, London. The Conference is being held by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
in partnership with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and organised by UKOLN. Pre-Conference Workshops are also arranged. Full details and how to register are available.
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5th International Digital Curation Conference (2009) Open for Registration
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009UKOLN Research Officer Wins Remote Worker Award 2009
Monday, September 14th, 2009UKOLN staff were delighted to learn that their colleague Marieke Guy has won the Remote Worker 2009 award from the Remote Employment Web site in association with BT Business against serious competition for the prize.
Making Repository Deposit Easier with SWORD
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009Adrian Stevenson, UKOLN, will be giving a presentation and demonstration at the DSpace User Group Meeting on 15 October 2009, at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Realising Dreams, Avoiding Nightmares, Accepting Responsibilities
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009Brian Kelly will facilitate a workshop session with Martin Weller entitled Realising Dreams, Avoiding Nightmares, Accepting Responsibilities at the ALT-C 2009 Conference which will be held at the University of Manchester on 8-10 September 2009.
Julian Cheal wins Prize at Repository Fringe
Thursday, August 13th, 2009Julian Cheal, UKOLN, won the Pecha Kucha prize for “short presentations of 20 slides at 20 seconds each slide” at the Repository Fringe 2009 in Edinburgh.
Live Video Streaming at IWMW 2009
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009The main plenary talks at the Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) 2009, taking place over 28-30 July at the University of Essex, will be live streamed. There will also be live blogging in the form of the iwmwlive Twitter account.
New IWMW 2009 Blog
Monday, July 27th, 2009Take a look at the new blog for the IWMW 2009 community designed to operate before, during and after the Institutional Web Management Workshop. Posts will be from speakers and delegates alike and will include videos and interviews.
IWMW 2009 – The Invisible Repository
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009Is the end-user interface for accessing the institutional repository a red herring? Should we be looking at making the IR vanish as far as the end user is concerned? Stephanie Taylor of UKOLN will be facilitating a breakout session to explore a different way of developing and integrating repositories.
Using the Social Web
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009Brian Kelly will facilitate a two-hour workshop session entitled Using the Social Web to Maximise Access to Your Resources at a two-day Search Engine Optimisation workshop called Improving Your Online Presence which will be held at the JISC Offices, London over 27-28 July 2009. There are well-documented techniques, known as Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), which can be used in order to ensure that Web resources can be easily found in search engines such as Google. This session will explore a number of ways in which the Social Web can be used by organisations seeking to maximise access to their services.
Registry Community Workshop
Monday, July 13th, 2009Bookings for The Registry Community Workshop 2009 – organised by UKOLN and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
(DCMI) – are now open. The event takes place on Friday 24 July in York.