The International Journal of Digital Curation 
produced by UKOLN on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre has published the first issue of this year’s Volume 4. Issue 1, Volume 4 contains 10 peer-reviewed papers as well as general articles of interest to practitioners in digital curation and preservation and access, the management of data, etc.
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International Journal of Digital Curation Publishes Issue 1, Volume 4 (2009)
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009Improving 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.
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 .
JISC Publishes Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009A report entitled Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World has been published by JISC. The 50-page report, produced by “an independent Committee of Inquiry into the impact on higher education of students’ widespread use of Web 2.0 technologies” provides a summary of student expectations and gives a series of recommendations on how the Higher Education community should react. Key findings, critical issues, conclusions and recommendations from the report are summarized on the JISC Web site together with the full report.
An accompanying article has been published in the Education Guardian of 12 May 2009 which includes an interview with Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus at UKOLN. Brian describes how many of the characteristics of Web 2.0, such as a culture of openness, reflect well-established approaches which are being taken in the sector. However he also warns of the dangers of seeking to exploit the marketing potential of social networking services, such as Facebook, in more formal teaching and learning 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 .
Debate on Repositories and Open Source
Monday, April 20th, 2009Michael Day and Alex Ball of UKOLN have contributed to a recent discussion of the role of open source software for institutional repositories as part of a special section on Institutional Repositories: The Great Debate published in the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (Vol. 53, No. 4 , April/May 2009 ). Paul Jones of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supported the initial motion that Institutional repositories should be built on open source software, arguing passionately that any other choice would be “un-archival and unsustainable in the long run.” In their response, the UKOLN contributors recognised the value of the open source development paradigm, while arguing that the main focus of repositories should be fundamentally pragmatic and primarily focused on the stewardship of institutional content. The special issue includes three other discussion topics, with contributors including Stevan Harnad, Nancy McGovern and Soo Young Rieh.
Ariadne Issue 58 Available
Friday, March 6th, 2009http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue58/
Ariadne Issue 58 was published recently with articles, among others, by Derek Law on Strathclyde’s Digital Library Plan and a call by Stephen G. Nichols to dismantle the the Silo Model of Digital Scholarship. Ann Borda reports on an eResearch Strategic Initiative in Australia while Frances Boyle, Alexandra Eveleigh and Heather Needham describe the recent digital preservation initiatives in the local authority archives sector. Georg Eckes and Monika Segbert describe the European Film Gateway, a Best Practice Network funded under the eContentplus Programme of the European Commission. Helen Brady writes on the next phase of the MrCute repository project and its potential impact on the digital learning object-sharing community. Talat Chaudhri of UKOLN makes a detailed assessment of the FRBR structure of the Dublin Core Application Profiles funded by JISC while his colleague Julian Cheal gives his impressions of the five days of dev8D: JISC Developer Happiness.