The last of the UKOLN Social Web workshops in the 2010-2011 series was held on 22 February 2011 at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. A look back at the events has been posted on the UKOLN Cultural Heritage blog. Access to all materials relating to these events is still available and links are included in the blog post.
Archive for the ‘Events’ Category
UKOLN Social Web Workshops 2010-2011
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011UKOLN Seminar: Website Design – Down with Technicalities, Up with the User and Crawler
Monday, February 14th, 2011This year UKOLN is opening up access to its seminar programme to other staff and researchers at the University of Bath and the wider community. We are pleased to announce the first international speaker of the year: Professor Melius Weideman, Head of Department in the Faculty of Informatics and Design, Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town, South Africa. Professor Weideman will deliver a seminar entitled “Website Design – Down with Technicalities, Up with the User and Crawler” which will be held in the University Library at the University of Bath from 2-4 pm on Monday 21 February.
A small number of places are available for this seminar. An Eventbrite booking form is available for those who wish to reserve a free place. This also provides further information about the seminar.
Free Social Web Workshop in Leicester for Cultural Heritage Sector
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011Ann Chapman of UKOLN will be running a one-day workshop in Leicester on Tuesday 22 February 2011 entitled The Social Web: Opportunities in Difficult Times. Run in partnership with the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, this workshop will consider how Social Web services can help libraries, museums and archives (especially small organisations with limited budgets and technical expertise) deliver services in new ways and reach new audiences. Attendance is free. Registration ends 13 February 2011. Further information and registration are obtainable from the UKOLN Web site.
Amplified Events, Seminars, Conferences, …: What? Why? How?
Friday, January 28th, 2011Brian Kelly and Marieke Guy will be facilitating a workshop session on “Amplified Events, Seminars, Conferences, …: What? Why? How?” which will be held at the JISC Conference at the BT Convention Centre in Liverpool on 15 March 2011.
The abstract for the session is given below:
All institutions are involved in providing events, ranging from international conferences through to smaller and more informal seminars and workshops. But in today’s economic environment the costs of participating in such events may lead to concerns over their sustainability. ‘Amplified events’ provide an approach which enhances the advantages provided by traditional face-to-face events by exploiting networked technologies to widen participation to remote participants and ‘time-shifting’ events.
This session will review a variety of approaches which have been taken at a number of national, international and regional events. The session will explore the reasons for such approaches, address possible concerns and outline various business models, policies and emerging technologies which can be used to maximise the benefits of amplified events.
The online booking form is available on the JISC Web site.
UKOLN Seminar: Invited International Speaker: Professor Melius Weideman
Thursday, January 27th, 2011Professor Melius Weideman, Head of Department in the Faculty of Informatics and Design, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa, will give a UKOLN seminar entitled Website Design – Down with Technicalities, Up with the User and Crawler at the University of Bath from 2-4 pm on Monday 21 February 2011.
A limited number of places are available for this seminar. If you would like to attend please complete the online booking form which also provides an abstract and additional information.
Free Research Data Management Workshops
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011The UK Digital Curation Centre is running a series of inter-linked regional workshops as part of the DCC Roadshow at the beginning of March 2011. Running over the three days of the Roadshow, free workshops will provide advice and guidance tailored to a range of staff, including PVCs Research, University Librarians, Directors of IT/Computing Services, Repository Managers, Research Support Services and practising researchers on the topic of institutional research data management planning and training. Further details are available from the UKOLN Web Site.
Free Social Web Workshop for Cultural Heritage Sector
Thursday, January 13th, 2011Ann Chapman of UKOLN will be running a one-day workshop in Leicester on 22 February 2011 entitled The Social Web: Opportunities in Difficult Times. Run in partnership with the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, this workshop will consider how Social Web services can help libraries, museums and archives (especially small organisations with limited budgets and technical expertise) deliver services in new ways and reach new audiences. Attendance is free. Registration ends 14 February 2011. Further information and registration are obtainable from the UKOLN Web site.
IWMW 2011: Call for Participation
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011The call for speakers and workshop facilitators for the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2011 (IWMW 2011) remains open until Friday 4 February 2011. The workshop will be held at the University of Reading from Tuesday 26 to Wednesday 27 July 2011. Further ideas and information are available from the IWMW Web site.
Free Event on Linked Data January 2011
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010The JISC-funded ResearchRevealed
and DevCSI projects have jointly organised a free two-day workshop for software developers, research information managers, researchers, librarians and linked data experts who are interested in the development of linked data, systems and services. The event will take place over 13 – 14 January, 2011 in Bristol and includes free accommodation.