UKOLN is organising a one-day workshop entitled “Metrics and Social Web Services: Quantitative Evidence for Their Use and Impact” which will be held at the Open University in Milton Keynes on Monday 11 July 2011. The workshop will explore ways in which metrics related to the use of Social Web services can be employed in order to provide evidence of how the services are being used. It will also allow delegates to make comparisons with their peers as well as enable them to identify trends in usage. Attendance at the workshop is free. Bookings should be made using the online Eventbrite booking system.
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Metrics and Social Web Services Workshop: Booking Opens
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011Last Spaces on DevCSI Free Cloud Services Workshop
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011The DevCSI Project will run a free Cloud services workshop on Friday 27 May 2011 at the University of Southampton. Only a very few places now remain; bookings will cease at 12 noon tomorrow, Thursday 26 May. So please book now to avoid disappointment.
The workshop will give delegates an overview of Cloud technologies and showcase examples of how the technology is used in Further and Higher Education. It is designed for developers, Web developers and systems administrators and will cover the basics of commercial Linux cloud usage.
Further information and a booking form are available from the UKOLN Events page.
CERIFy Data Surgery Will Report
Friday, May 13th, 2011This two-day invitation-only event will be held in Bath over 19-20 May as part of the CERIFy Project and will facilitate discussion of data, CERIF mappings and general networking for all project partners. Although this event is only open to the CERIFy Project partners, the discussions and workshop outputs from this data surgery will be made publicly available after the event. Please check the CERIFy Project Web site for further information. These outputs will be announced through this channel as well as the project Web site.
The CERIFy Project is funded by JISC from February to July 2011 to investigate how the CERIF Standard (Common European Research Information Format) for Current Research Information Systems (CRISs) could be used more widely within the sector in order to manage research data, to increase such engagement to a critical mass, and to support an emerging community of practice in Research Information Management (RIM).
CERIFy is working with four pilot UK HE institutions and one international commercial organisation (Thomson Reuters), which do not as yet have working CRIS systems based on the CERIF data format. The project will evaluate, test and demonstrate CERIF in a practical, ‘end-to-end’ process of people-centred organisational modelling, requirements elicitation, data analysis, data mapping, data exchange, and software demonstration, together with a programme of training, support, evaluation and dissemination.
DevCSI Free Cloud Services Workshop
Friday, May 6th, 2011The DevCSI Project will run a free Cloud services workshop on Friday 27 May 2011 at the University of Southampton. It will give delegates an overview of Cloud technologies and showcase examples of how the technology is used in Further and Higher Education. It is designed for developers, Web developers and systems administrators and will cover the basics of commercial Linux cloud usage.
Further information and a booking form are available from the UKOLN Events page.
IWMW 2011 Open for Bookings
Thursday, May 5th, 2011UKOLN’s Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW 2011) is now open for bookings. It will be held at the University of Reading on 26-27 July 2011. Further information and details on booking are available from the associated UKOLN news feature.
IDCC11: Call for Papers
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011The theme of the 7th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC11) will be Public? Private? Personal? navigating the open data landscape. It will take place this year in Bristol, UK over 5 – 7 December 2011.
Digital curation manages, maintains, preserves, and adds value to digital information throughout its lifecycle, reducing threats to long-term value, mitigating the risk of digital obsolescence and enhancing usefulness for research and scholarship. IDCC11 will bring together practitioners who create information, those who curate and manage it, and those who use it together with those who research and teach about curation processes.
In its Call for Papers the IDCC11 Programme Committee invites submissions on current concerns in digital curation and specific concerns arising from our conference theme.
UKOLN Seminar: OER Sustainability through Teaching and Research Innovation (OSTRICH)
Thursday, April 7th, 2011Vic Jenkins and Alex Lydiate of the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Office, University of Bath, will give a UKOLN seminar on OSTRICH (OER Sustainability through Teaching & Research Innovation: Cascading across HEIs).
Starting at 14:00 on Thursday 14 April 2011, in the Library Level 4 Meeting Room, this seminar will explain work on Open Educational Resources (OER) projects at the University of Bath and other UK Higher Education Institutions.
Cascading across HEIs is a year-long JISC-funded project led by the Beyond Distance Research Alliance at the University of Leicester. The project explores the transfer and cascade of the key outcomes of a previous institutional OER pilot project at Leicester (OTTER) to two partner institutions (University of Bath and University of Derby).
The progress of the OSTRICH project so far at the University of Bath will be described by Vic Jenkins (Learning Technologist in the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Office). This will include highlights and challenges encountered, discussions around IPR for learning and teaching resources, and the sustainability of processes for managing the release of OERs on an institutional basis.
Alex Lydiate (Educational Software and Systems Developer) will present an overview of the design of the Drupal-based OSTRICH distributed repository and the rationale behind it. This will include an outline of the proposed strategy for representing the OSTRICH OER records on the Web.
If you would like to attend this free seminar, please book using the Eventbrite booking form. Note: You should also use the online booking form if you would like to view a live video stream of this talk.
Data Infrastructure Challenges, I2S2 Project Workshop, 5th May 2011, Leicester
Thursday, March 31st, 2011The Infrastructure for Integration in Structural Sciences (I2S2) Project is pleased to announce a half-day workshop exploring research data management challenges in a range of contexts. This workshop, entitled Data Infrastructure Challenges: Working across Scale, Disciplinary and Institutional Boundaries, will take place on 5 May 2011 at the University of Leicester.
The half-day workshop will examine data integration and interoperability across different degrees of scale (from local laboratory to national data service to large-scale facility such as Diamond and ISIS), data flows between disciplines, and data exchange across and within institutional boundaries. There will be a particular focus on demonstrating the cost-benefits of effective data management and the relevance of different roles within organisations. A programme of expert speakers will share the experiences and outcomes from a range of pioneering JISC-funded projects, followed by panel discussion.
Full programme and registration details can be found on the I2S2 events page.
This workshop is to be co-located with the 6th Research Data Management Forum.
Open Educational Resources Hackday: Fully Booked
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011The Open Educational Resources (OER) Hackday, a two-day event organised by UKOLN and DevCSI over 31 March – 1 April 2011, which will look at hacking content, systems and services for open educational resources, is now fully booked. If you would like to be placed on a waiting list, advice is available on the event’s booking page.
UKOLN International Seminar: Dr Andrew Treloar on Data Management
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011Dr Andrew Treloar, Director of Technology for the Australian National Data Service (ANDS), will be giving a seminar entitled Data Management: International Challenges, National Infrastructure and Institutional Responses – an Australian Perspective. It will be hosted by UKOLN at the University of Bath on Friday 1 April starting at 11.00. Booking details are available from the UKOLN Web site.
This seminar will consider the international challenges arising from the shift towards data-intensive research and the rapid uptake of instruments that produce very large data volumes. It will explain the role of and rationale for the Australian National Data Service, its different programmes, and the services that are being developed and taken up. It will also consider how different institutions in Australia are engaging with the Service. The seminar should be relevant to anyone with an interest in data management.
Further details on the seminar, Dr Treloar, how to book a place or to learn more about the proposed video stream are available from the UKOLN Web site.