As part of the 7th International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM-2010
) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Deborah Swain, Emma Tonkin and Linda Doll (moderator) will debate means, mechanisms and pitfalls in the sharing of health records in the US and UK. The panel will take place at 3.30pm on Friday 22 October.
Archive for the ‘Outreach’ Category
Event Amplification Using Social Media
Friday, October 15th, 2010Brian Kelly will give a talk Event Amplification Using Social Media at a JISC Services Marketing and Communications meeting. The meeting will be held from 10.00-15.00 on Thursday 20 October 2010 at the JISC offices, Brettenham House, London.
MashSpa: The Mashed Library Event in Bath
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010The 6th Mashed Library event known as MashSpa will be held in Bath on Friday 29 October. Designed for librarians and technical staff, this one-day event is an opportunity for them to meet, share knowledge and create new mashups. The morning programme will be given over to a few talks while the afternoon will be dedicated to mashing and creating new ideas for your library and some workshops. We would stress that no technical expertise is required of participants. There are still a few places available. You can book online now.
Web Preservation the UKOLN Way
Thursday, October 7th, 2010A guest blog post by Marieke Guy on UKOLN’s current Web preservation work has been published on the Museums Computer Group blog. The post looks at UKOLN’s activities for the Cultural Heritage sector as well as recent work on preserving tweets and blogs.
Learning Repositories in Agriculture Food & Environment (AgLR 2010)
Thursday, October 7th, 2010Stephanie Taylor of UKOLN will be participating in the e-conference Learning Repositories in Agriculture Food & Environment: Quality Promises and Considerations in Learning Repositories and Portals (AgLR 2010) which takes place 6-20 October 2010. The e-conference is hosted by the Agricultural Learning Repositories Task Force (AgLR-TF) and the e-Agriculture Community. As part of her work with the Metadata Forum, Stephanie will be joint moderator, along with Jackie Wickham of the Repository Support Project (RSP), of two discussions about the use of metadata in learning repositories. The e-conference is open to anyone with an interest in this area. Details on how to join in and further information on the topics to be discussed are available.
“To promote open education is needed more interaction”
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010Brian Kelly has been featured in an interview published in El Punt, an online journal published in Girona, Catalonia, Spain. The interview took place when Brian gave a seminar on What Can We Learn From Amplified Events? at the University of Girona on 3 September 2010. For those who do not understand the Catalan language an English language version is available which is produced by the Google Translate service. Although the quality of the translation is less than ideal, it does help to convey the underlying message.
UK e-Science AHM 2010 Considers New Opportunities on the Other Side of the Chasm
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010The 9th UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM 2010), with the theme of e-Science: novel research, new science and enduring impact, is being held at the City Hall, Cardiff, over 13-16 September 2010. The closing panel of the conference will be a discussion of New Opportunities on the Other Side of the Chasm. It will be held in the Council Chamber at 10.45am Thursday 16 September following a short presentation on Digital Social Research by Professor David De Roure, Oxford e-Research Centre. The panellists are Professor Mark Birkin, GENeSIS Project, Dr Liz Lyon, UKOLN, Professor Gary Olson, University of Michigan and Dr Alex Voss, NCeSS.
Supporting Research Data Management at ECDL 2010
Monday, September 6th, 2010Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN and Associate Director, Digital Curation Centre, will facilitate the panel on Developing Services to Support Research Data Management and Sharing during ECDL 2010 in Glasgow. The subject of the panel will be the current gap between the readiness of the current information environment to deal with large amounts of heterogeneous data and the disposition of academics in research institutions to update their practices of data management and curation. The panel will focus on this gap between digital library systems and researchers’ current practice in managing data and will explore appropriate services that can help to bridge it.
Kelly Tells THE: More to University Web Sites than League Tables
Monday, September 6th, 2010In a letter published in the 2-8 September 2010 issue of Times Higher Education, Brian Kelly points out the limitations of publishing league tables for university Web sites. The challenge is not in jostling for position in an artificial league table, but ensuring that Web teams are willing to share best practice in exploiting the potential of the Social Web. Further details are available.
Registration for the 6th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) Now Open
Friday, September 3rd, 2010Registration is now open for this year’s International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC). It will take place over 6-8 December in Chicago. The theme of the 2010 conference is Participation and Practice: Growing the Curation Community through the Data Decade. Details on registration and all other aspects are available from the Digital Curation Centre Web site.