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Friday, May 28th, 2010Keynote Speakers at JISC/CNI 2010
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010Liz Lyon will be a keynote speaker at the JISC/CNI Meeting 2010 recently announced by JISC
and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) which will take place over 1-2 July 2010 and will be held at the Barcelo Carlton Hotel, Edinburgh. The conference will be organised by UKOLN and will bring together experts from the United States, Europe and the United Kingdom. The conference theme this year is Managing Data in Difficult Times: policies, strategies, technologies and infrastructure to manage research and teaching data in a fast changing technological and economic environment. Conference keynote speakers include: Dan Atkins, Professor and Associate Vice President, University of Michigan, Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Director for Library Digital Programs, John Hopkins University, Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC and Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN.
Liz Lyon Interviewed for ABC Science Online
Monday, April 19th, 2010During her visit to Australia in November 2009, Liz Lyon was interviewed for her thoughts towards the article Putting the citizen into science by Suzannah Lyons which has recently been published by ABC Science Online . Asked about the increased involvement of ordinary people in scientific projects, Liz remarked, “Clearly in the last few years these sorts of opportunities have been greatly facilitated by social networks and the collaborative tools that we’ve seen with Web 2.0.” She pointed to the way in which citizen science is increasing public awareness of scientific work, “perhaps in some ways demystifying it.” While stressing the need to contribute reliable data in such a partnership, Liz concluded, “Citizen science is not only changing the way we do and perceive science, it’s also empowering people to make a difference.”
Codes, Clouds and Constellations at the CNI Spring Meeting
Thursday, April 15th, 2010Liz Lyon was invited to give a presentation at the closing plenary session of the recent Spring Meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) in Baltimore, Maryland. The slides from her presentation entitled Codes, Clouds and Constellations: Open Science in the Data Decade are now available.
Off the digi-scale
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010Brian Kelly is featured in an interview published in the April issue of Information World Review.
An Evidence-based Approach to Collaborative Ontology Development
Friday, April 9th, 2010Andrew Hewson of UKOLN gave a poster presentation entitled An evidence-based approach to collaborative ontology development on behalf of the authors Emma Tonkin of UKOLN, Heather D. Pfeiffer, New Mexico State University and Andy himself at the Workshop on Matching and Meaning 2010 (WMM 2010) held at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK over 31 March – 1 April. The aim of this workshop was to bring together researchers interested in the problems of automated development, evolution and interpretation of ontologies in the many different domains in which they occur. This poster is now available.
Approaches to Accessibility in Developing Countries at W4A 2010
Friday, April 9th, 2010Brian Kelly is lead author of a paper entitled Developing Countries; Developing Experiences: Approaches to Accessibility for the Real World which has been accepted at the Web4All (W4A) 2010 Conference, the 7th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility. The authors of the paper are Brian Kelly (UKOLN), Sarah Lewthwaite (University of Nottingham) and David Sloan (University of Dundee). The W4A Conference takes place over 26 – 27 April in Raleigh, NC, USA.
The Why, What, How and When of RDA
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010Slides are now available for Ann Chapman’s recent talk entitled The Why, What, How and When of RDA: the current state of play given to delegates from academic and public libraries at the CILIP Executive Briefing Day on Resource Description and Access (RDA) held in London on 23 March 2010 and repeated on 30 March 2010. The day focused on the need for RDA, the strategic aspects of moving to RDA and the challenges of implementation.
Summing up the UKOLN/MLA Web 2.0 Workshops
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010We have now completed the series of 13 workshops introducing the Museums Libraries and Archives community to Web 2.0 and the social Web. A blog post summing up the workshops is available on UKOLN’s Cultural Heritage blog.
BRTF: Making the Business Case for Digital Preservation
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010The Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access (BRTF-SDPA), a new international initiative funded by JISC and other organisations, has recently released its report entitled Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Information. Neil Grindley, programme manager at JISC, said, “This report takes a clear-headed and hard look at some of the ideas surrounding preservation ..” JISC is organising a free one-day symposium in London on 6 May 2010 where the Blue Ribbon task force will be presenting its final report alongside responses from the BBC, the Natural History Museum, the British Library, European Bioinformatics Institute and the European Commission. Further information is available.