Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, has been invited to give the locknote address at the close of the eResearch Australia 2009 Conference
to be held in Sydney over 9 – 13 November. Her locknote presentation entitled Open Science at Web Scale: breaking all boundaries? will seek to challenge our established notions of the research landscape by extending the boundaries to explore the full potential of 21st Century team science.
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Open Science at Web Scale Closes eResearch Australia 2009
Friday, November 6th, 2009Digital Curation Approaches for Architecture
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009The DCC SCARP Case Study Digital Curation approaches for Architecture is now published. This sixth DCC SCARP Case Study highlights choices in how to provide for appropriate care of digital objects and options for digital curation treatment. These approaches will serve to promote more effective architectural practice and research, both now and in the future.
International Journal of Digital Curation, Issue 2, Volume 4
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009UKOLN has just published on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre issue 2 of Volume 4 of the International Journal of Digital Curation. In addition to 8 research papers and 6 general articles the issue also contains an exchange of letters to the Editor on the topic of archival authenticity of digital objects.
5th International Digital Curation Conference (2009) Open for Registration
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009Registration is now open for the 5th International Digital Curation Conference: “Moving to Multi-Scale Science: Managing Complexity and Diversity” to be held 2-4 December 2009 at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel, Kensington, London. The Conference is being held by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) in partnership with the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and organised by UKOLN. Pre-Conference Workshops are also arranged. Full details and how to register are available.
Time to Be Flexible
Monday, August 17th, 2009In an article published in the e-Access Bulletin (August 2009) Brian Kelly argues that policy makers need to take a more flexible approach to Web accessibility than simply requiring conformance with WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) guidelines. Brian suggests that the Web Adaptability approach, described in a recent peer-reviewed paper which embraces the UN Convention’s definition of accessibility, provides an approach more suited to addressing the real-world deployment challenges posed by the technical complexities of today’s Web environment, the rich diversity of uses made of the Web as well as the differing needs and requirements of individual users.
Ariadne Issue 60 Published
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009Issue 60 of Ariadne was published recently with a variety of main articles on subjects as diverse as findings from a UKRDS survey of researchers, views on preservation of research data, the impact of overlay and data journals in the meteorological sciences, and the National Library of Norway’s digitisation strategy. It also offers an article by Ann Chapman and Rosemary Russell of UKOLN on the challenge of collecting evidence for a study of how Web 2.0 is being used in the UK HE sector.
Paper on “Library 2.0: Balancing the Risks and Benefits to Maximise the Dividends” published
Monday, August 10th, 2009A paper on “Library 2.0: Balancing the Risks and Benefits to Maximise the Dividends” has recently been published in the Program journal (Program Electronic Library and Information Systems, 43 (3), pp. 311-327). This paper was originally presented at the Bridging Worlds 2008 conference held at the National Library of Singapore in October 2008. The lead author of the paper is Brian Kelly and the other contributors are Paul Bevan (National Library of Wales), Richard Akerman (National Research Council Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, Ottawa, Canada), Jo Alcock (University of Wolverhampton) and Josie Fraser (consultant).
Engineering a Complete Record
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009The July/August 2009 issue of Library and Information Update, the journal of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), features an article by Alex Ball of UKOLN. In Engineering a complete record Alex covers some of the research carried out by the KIM Grand Challenge Project. The article describes how the project has investigated the issues of knowledge and information management that arise as engineering firms increasingly sell their products as services.
From Web Accessibility to Web Adaptability
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Brian Kelly is the lead author of a paper entitled From Web Accessibility to Web Adaptability. The paper, by Brian Kelly, Liddy Nevile, David Sloan, Sotiris Fanou, Ruth Ellison and Lisa Herrod, appears in Volume 4, Issue 4, 2009 of Disability and Rehability: Assistive Technology, the journal of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM ).
IDCC 2009 – Call for Papers deadline extended
Thursday, July 16th, 2009The DCC is pleased to announce that the Paper Submission date for IDCC09 has been extended by two weeks to Friday 7 August 2009. Submissions should be in the form of a full or short paper, or a one page abstract for a poster, workshop or demonstration. All papers accepted for the conference will be published in the International Journal of Digital Curation .