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Thursday, June 4th, 2009Repositories Support Project Prized for Innovation
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
The Repositories Support Project (RSP) and SWORD both with UKOLN staff involvement won special prizes at the recent JISC Repositories and Preservation Meeting 
at the Aston Business School. Delegates were invited to vote for one project each in the Repositories and Preservation Programme that had been most innovative and had most impact. Voting took place either through a ballot box or via twitter. The results were announced during the evening dinner and there was general agreement among delegates that the two projects were deserving of recognition, though indeed all projects listed demonstrated elements of innovation and impact. More information about the meeting is available including links to presentations and videos on YouTube.
SWORD Wins Innovation Award at JISC Event
Monday, May 11th, 2009
The Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit (SWORD) Project , led by UKOLN, was named most innovative project at the recent JISC Repositories and Preservation conference at Aston Business School, as voted for by delegates from across the whole Programme. SWORD, whose partners include developers of the DSpace, EPrints, Fedora and IntraLibrary repository software platforms, plus the University of York and CASIS at the University of Wales, has created a mechanism for repositories to deposit and receive deposits via a standard protocol, thus making it possible for different repositories and other applications to move content around more easily. SWORD has received much interest, and a growing community of active developers is building, including Microsoft whose SWORD plug-in can support deposits direct to a repository from within Microsoft Word. FeedForward, a close second for the award, is also SWORD-compliant. Work on SWORD continues within the UKOLN suite of activities.
Digital Repositories Roadmap: Rachel Heery Provides New Review
Thursday, May 7th, 2009Practitioners in the field of digital repositories familiar with the document Digital Repositories Roadmap: looking forward by Rachel Heery, UKOLN, University of Bath, and her former colleague Andy Powell, Eduserv Foundation, may be interested by an announcement by JISC of the publication of further work by Rachel Heery. The original Roadmap, published in April 2006, presented a vision for the role of digital repositories in 2010. Given the significant developments in policy, practice and technology relevant to digital repositories that have occurred since the original Roadmap, JISC funded Rachel Heery, Assistant Director and Team Leader for Research and Development at UKOLN until her retirement, to produce a review of the original Roadmap and to extend the vision until 2013. The new review, entitled Digital Repositories Roadmap Review: towards a vision for research and learning in 2013, makes a number of recommendations for consideration by the JISC Executive and goes on to identify milestones of relevance to the wider community that might act as a measure of progress towards the broader vision of enhanced scholarly communication. Full details are available on the new JISC Web site .
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.
IEMSR at JISC 2009
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
The JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry Project gave a demonstration of the registry and a suite of associated software tools at the recent 2009 JISC Conference. Slides and screenshots from the presentation are available on the IEMSR Web site.
Survey to find what makes a Good API
Monday, January 12th, 2009http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=yGugtLrayEiRLnGYzlUQ4w_3d_3d
You are invited to take take part in a research survey that documents your experiences of publishing and consuming Web APIs. The survey has been created by the Good APIs project, which is being carried out by UKOLN to provide JISC and the sector with information and advice on the factors that encourage effective use of machine interfaces. The survey will close on Wednesday 21st January
The Fetish of the Digital
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009http://jiscpowr.jiscinvolve.org/2009/01/07/the-fetish-of-the-digital/
Dr James Currall, Director of Information Strategy, University of Glasgow has written a guest blog post on the JISC Preservation of Web Resources blog speculating what exactly is the ‘information object’ that needs to be preserved. This project, which was officially completed in November 2008, was undertaken jointly by UKOLN at the University of Bath and ULCC Digital Archives department.