Archive for the ‘Presentations’ Category

IDCC10 Programme Now Available

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

The Digital Curation Centre (DCCexternal link) has recently published the draft programmeexternal link for the 6th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC10external link)to be held over 6 – 8 December 2010 at the Chicago Mart Plaza, Chicago, USA. The theme of the Conference this year will be Participation and Practice: Growing the Curation Community through the Data Decade. The Conference will be presented jointly by the Digital Curation Centre, UK and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and in partnership with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). The first day of the conference will look at how data curation practices are evolving and spreading throughout the disciplines and what institutional structures and communities are needed to help support these developments. On the second day papers will be presented in two tracks of themed parallel sessions: a Research Track, with papers presenting research results, and a Practice Track, with papers describing experiences with tools and practices.

Bookings Now Open for IWMW 2010

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

Bookings are now open for Institutional Web Management Workshop 2010 to be held from Monday 12 to Wednesday 14 July 2010 at the University of Sheffield. The cost is £350 for the 3-day event. The price includes two nights ensuite accommodation, all food and materials included. You will need to choose your parallel sessions from the workshop programme and the session abstracts when booking.

Winner of John M Slatin Award at W4A 2010

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

Brian Kelly was the lead author of a paper entitled Developing Countries; Developing Experiences: Approaches to Accessibility for the Real World which received the John M Slatin award for the Best Communications Paper at the 7th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A) Conference held in Raleigh, North Carolina. Further information is available.

Citation of Network Models and Associated Data

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

The recent Sage Commons Congressexternal link in San Francisco aimed to establish the foundation for a new public domain resource, the Sage Commonsexternal link. Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, led the workstream on Citation of Network Models and Associated Data. The slides from her presentation are now available.

Keynote Speakers at JISC/CNI 2010

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

Liz Lyon will be a keynote speaker at the JISC/CNI Meeting 2010 recently announced by JISCexternal link and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNIexternal link) 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.

Codes, Clouds and Constellations at the CNI Spring Meeting

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Liz Lyon was invited to give a presentation at the closing plenary sessionexternal link of the recent Spring Meetingexternal link of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNIexternal link) in Baltimore, Maryland. The slides from her presentation entitled Codes, Clouds and Constellations: Open Science in the Data Decade are now available.

Approaches to Accessibility in Developing Countries at W4A 2010

Friday, April 9th, 2010

Brian 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.