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UKOLN Update August 2011

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

The recently released issue of UKOLN Update, a monthly newsletter, provides an overview of UKOLN work during August 2011.  It highlights key news features, blog posts, presentations, and events related to staff activities.

Most frequently used words in UKOLN blogs, August 2011

Most frequently used words in UKOLN blogs, August 2011

UKOLN Update July 2011

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

The recently released issue of UKOLN Update, a monthly newsletter, provides an overview of UKOLN work during July 2011.  It highlights key news features, blog posts, presentations, and events related to staff activities.

Most frequently used words in UKOLN blogs, July 2011

Most frequently used words in UKOLN blogs, July 2011

Certain UKOLN Services Affected by Scheduled Downtime

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

UKOLN is advising users of the following services that there will be a scheduled period of downtime on Thursday 21  July 2011:

This newsfeed service, UKOLN News, together with all the UKOLN blogs, namely:
UKOLN Update
LOCAH Project blog
The Metadata Forum blog
SageCite blog
Patients Participate! blog
I2S2 blog
JISC Beginner’s Guide to Digital Preservation
eFragments Blog
Cultural Heritage Blog
JISC IE Technical Foundations blog
Digital Curation Blog
Application Profiles Support Blog
UKOLN Dev

Rest assured that the UKOLN Web site, Ariadne Web Magazine and the International Journal of Digital Curation will remain available while email contact will also be unaffected.

UKOLN Update June 2011

Friday, July 8th, 2011

The recently released issue of UKOLN Update, a monthly newsletter, provides an overview of UKOLN work during June 2011.  It highlights key news features, blog posts, presentations, and events related to staff activities.

Most frequently used words in UKOLN blogs, June 2011

Most frequently used words in UKOLN blogs, June 2011

Problems Accessing W3C LLD Blog

Monday, July 4th, 2011

The WordPress plugin Digress.it which offers paragraph-level commenting allows for discussions of documents which are republished using WordPress. This plugin is in use in a variety of blogs such as JISCPress.org, WriteToReply and UKOLN’s W3C linked library data incubator blog. However there is currently a bug with Digress.it which sometimes means the blog will not display. The developers of Digress.it are currently looking into resolving this problem. We will provide an update as soon as possible.

UKOLN Update: May 2011

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

The recently released issue of UKOLN Update, a monthly newsletter, provides an overview of UKOLN work during May 2011.  It highlights key news features, blog posts, presentations, and events related to staff activities.

Wordle: Most frequently used words in UKOLN blogs, May 2011

Most frequently used words in UKOLN blogs, May 2011

Patients Participate! Workshop: Bridging the Gap between Information Access and Understanding in Health Research

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

Information on an upcoming Patients Participate! Project workshop on bridging the gap between information access and understanding in health research, to take place on 17 June 2011 at the British Library, is available in the latest UKOLN News feature.

OR 2011: Linked Data – The Future for Open Repositories?

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

Adrian Stevenson of UKOLN will be speaking about the LOCAH Project at the Open Repositories 2011 Conference, which takes place in Austin, Texas, USA over 6 – 11 June 2011. Adrian will give his 24×7 presentation, entitled Linked Data – The Future for Open Repositories?.

The LOCAH Linked Data Project

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

The JISC-funded LOCAH (Linked Open Copac and Archives Hub) Project recently announced the release of its first Linked Data set. The Project is also involved in a round of presentations and conference participation. Full details and further information are now available in a News feature on the UKOLN Web site.

LOCAH and LOD-LAM: Linked Open Data Summit

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

The International Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives, and Museums Summit (“LOD-LAM”) will take place over 2-3 June  2011 in San Francisco, USA. It will ‘convene leaders in their respective areas of expertise from the humanities and sciences to catalyze practical, actionable approaches to publishing Linked Open Data.’

Adrian Stevenson of UKOLN is an invited expert and member of the organising committee for the Summit. He will also be presenting on the JISC-funded LOCAH (Linked Open Copac and Archives Hub) Project at the Summit.