Is 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.
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IWMW 2009 – The Invisible Repository
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009Using 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.
C21st Scholarship: Data as an Agent for Change
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009Liz Lyon recently gave a presentation entitled C21st Scholarship: Data as an Agent for Change at the Third Bloomsbury Conference on e-Publishing and e-Publications 
. Her slides are now available.
Connecting Remote Workers for UCISA
Monday, June 29th, 2009Marieke Guy will be facilitating a workshop entitled Connecting Remote Workers at UCISA’s Advisory and Support Staff Symposium 2009 DEMOS . The symposium will take place from 7 – 8 July at the Aston Business School Conference Centre, Birmingham. The theme for this year is “It’s not what you do, it’s the way that you do it”, so flexible ways of working will feature significantly.
Data Informatics Top Ten at i-expo
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, recently gave a presentation in Paris entitled Data Informatics Top Ten: (for Libraries) during the 2009 i-expo session E-Research / E-Infrastructure and roles for libraries and the scientific information community. Liz’ presentation is now available.
Improving Services and Reducing Costs through Flexible Working
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009Marieke Guy, UKOLN Remote Worker Champion, will be presenting at a one-day workshop Improving Services and Reducing Costs through Flexible Working. The event organised by Public Sector Forums will take place at Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham on Tuesday 23 June 2009. Marieke, who was invited to speak as a consequence of her work on the Ramblings of a Remote Worker blog, will give a talk entitled How to Be a Connected Remote Worker in 10 Easy Steps. Resources from the day and follow-up blog posts will be published on her blog after the event.
Team Science at ICSTI 2009
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, spoke recently on Libraries and Team Science at the 2009 conference of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) in Ottawa. In her presentation Liz examined the roles that libraries and information professionals can play in the changing landscape of multi-scale, multi-disciplinary and multi-skilled team science. Slides from this presentation are now available.
IDCC 2009 Call for Papers
Thursday, June 4th, 2009The DCC invites submission of full papers, posters, workshops and demos to the 5th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC 2009). It also welcomes contributions and participation from individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains that are engaged in the creation, use and management of digital data, especially those involved in the challenge of curating data for e-science and e-research. Proposals will be considered for short (up to 6 pages) or long (up to 12 pages) papers and also for demonstrations, workshops and posters. The full text of papers will be peer-reviewed; abstracts for all posters, workshops and demos will be reviewed by the co-chairs. Final copy of accepted contributions will be made available to conference delegates, and papers will be published in our International Journal of Digital Curation .
IWMW 2009: Places Going Fast
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
The Cutting Edge of SWORD at OR 2009
Friday, May 1st, 2009Adrian Stevenson of UKOLN and former UKOLN colleague Julie Allinson, University of York, will give a presentation entitled The Cutting Edge of SWORD at the forthcoming 4th International Conference on Open Repositories (OR 2009 ) at the Georgia Institute of Technology over 18-21 May. The presentation will look at how the original SWORD (Simple Web service Offering Repository Deposit)) Project and the current SWORD 2 Project have realised the vision of a standard deposit protocol. The presentation will also consider the future of SWORD and look at recent activity.