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Farewell to Ann Chapman, UKOLN Research Officer, 1987-2011

Friday, April 1st, 2011

Ann Chapman retires from UKOLN on 31 March 2011, after more than 24 years of dedication, commitment, and excellent standards.

Since joining UKOLN in 1987, Ann has made significant contributions to UKOLN and to the wider HE and library communities. As explained on the UKOLN Web site, Ann’s career progression closely reflected the development of UKOLN from a centre for cataloguing research to the centre of excellence in digital information management that it is today.

UKOLN colleagues send Ann their best wishes for a happy and fulfilling retirement.
Ann Chapman retirement presentation, UKOLN

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Temporary Failure of Email

Friday, February 25th, 2011

We regret that for Friday 25 February it will not be possible to contact UKOLN over email because of a fault with the University of Bath email service. Please note however that staff may be contacted by telephone. All staff contact pages are available from the UKOLN Web site. We will use a further newsfeed item to announce resumption of email service.

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UKOLN Seminar: Website Design – Down with Technicalities, Up with the User and Crawler

Monday, February 14th, 2011

This year UKOLN is opening up access to its seminar programme to other staff and researchers at the University of Bath and the wider community. We are pleased to announce the first international speaker of the year: Professor Melius Weideman, Head of Department in the Faculty of Informatics and Design, Cape Peninsula University of Technology in Cape Town, South Africa. Professor Weideman will deliver a seminar entitled “Website Design – Down with Technicalities, Up with the User and Crawler” which will be held in the University Library at the University of Bath from 2-4 pm on Monday 21 February.

A small number of places are available for this seminar. An Eventbrite booking form is available for those who wish to reserve a free place. This also provides further information about the seminar.

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Shirley Keane Retires from UKOLN

Monday, January 31st, 2011

Shirley Keane retired from UKOLN on 31 January, after 10 years as Web Editor.

During her time at UKOLN, Shirley oversaw a major redevelopment of the Web site and was responsible for maintaining content. The support and guidance that she provided for staff, always in a professional and friendly manner, was very much appreciated and will be missed.

We wish her well as she moves on with other interests.

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UKOLN Update: UKOLN’s Activities for November 2010

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

UKOLN Update, a monthly newsletter about UKOLN activities, provides a view of staff work during the month of November 2010.

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UKOLN Article in New Review of Academic Librarianship

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

An article by Rosemary Russell and Michael Day of UKOLN has been published in the first Open Access issue of the New Review of Academic Librarianship, which was sponsored by JISC. This special issue on dissemination models in scholarly communication was guest-edited by Hazel Woodward, Cranfield University. Further details are on the UKOLN Web site.

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Ontology Development at ICKM-2010

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

Emma Tonkin of UKOLN and Heather D. Pfeiffer of New Mexico State University will give a paper entitled Data-driven or background knowledge ontology development at the 7th International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM-2010 external link ) to be held over 22-23 October 2010 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Understanding and Characterizing Engineering Research Data for its Better Management

Monday, October 18th, 2010

The ERIM (Engineering Research Information Management) Project has released a report entitled Understanding and Characterizing Engineering Research Data for its Better Management. The report introduces a new technique for modelling research activity information development and uses it to analyse the data records from six engineering studies. This modelling technique is supported by the ERIM Data Management Terminology as set out in the report. The ERIM Project is part of the JISC’s Managing Research Data Programme, looking at data management planning in EPSRC-funded projects. It is a collaboration between the Innovative design and Manufacturing Research Centre (IdMRC) at the University of Bath and UKOLN, representing the DCC.

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SWORDv2 Funded to Cover Wider Infrastructure

Thursday, October 7th, 2010

The SWORDv2 Project has been funded by JISC, under the Information Environment 2011 Programme, to extend repository deposit to cover the wider scholarly communication infrastructure. The project, led by UKOLN, will develop a second generation of the SWORD deposit protocol that will enable it to encompass a wider set of systems within the scholarly communication infrastructure, and to allow active management of artefacts as they change throughout their lifetime. Further details are available.

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UKOLN Update: UKOLN’s Activities for August 2010

Monday, September 13th, 2010

UKOLN Update, a monthly newsletter about UKOLN activities, is now available in blog format and provides a view of staff work during the month of August 2010.

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