Final Report from UKOLN’s Evidence, Impact, Metrics Work Published

January 5th, 2012 by Brian Kelly

The final report covering UKOLN’s work on Evidence, Impact, Metrics has been published. The aim of this work was to identify best practice in gathering quantitive evidence and associated metrics on the use of networked services to support institutional and project activities. The report has been produced as a series of self-contained documents which are suitable for printing (on a double-side printer) as well as being published in HTML format.

UKOLN Blog Services Restored

January 5th, 2012 by lisrw

Recent scheduled network maintenance has now been signed off and UKOLN blog services have been restored. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Possible Interruptions in UKOLN Blog Services

January 4th, 2012 by lisrw

Due to scheduled network maintenance on 4 January 2012, there may be temporary disruption of UKOLN blog services during Wednesday. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

UKOLN Services Return to Normal

December 19th, 2011 by lisrw

Scheduled network maintenance on 19 December 2011 has now been completed and all UKOLN services have been restored to normal operation. We apologise for any inconvenience this morning’s maintenance may have caused.

Possible Disruption to UKOLN Services

December 19th, 2011 by lisrw

Due to scheduled network maintenance on 19 December 2011, there may be temporary disruption to UKOLN services during Monday. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Update on ‘Cookie’ Legislation

December 19th, 2011 by Brian Kelly

On Tuesday 13 December the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published a blog post entitled “Half term report on cookies compliance” which announced the release of updated guidance on the Government’s ‘cookie’ legislation. The implications of the guidance for those responsible for providing institutional Web sites have been described in a post on “The Half Term Report on Cookie Compliance” which has been published on the UK Web Focus blog.

Dealing with Very Personal Data

December 14th, 2011 by lisrw

Professor Adam Hedgecoe, Associate Director CESAGEN and Dr Liz Lyon, Associate Director, Digital Curation Centre, gave a presentation to the 7th DCC Symposium entitled Share your genome? Dealing with very personal data. The Symposium, chaired by Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, CNI, formed part of the first day’s programme of the 7th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC11). Slides from this presentation are now available on the UKOLN Web site.

Introducing the Community Capability Model Project

December 13th, 2011 by lisrw

Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, gave a number of presentations during the recent 7th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC11). One was to a pre-conference workshop in order to introduce the Community Capability Model Project. Slides from this presentation are now available on the UKOLN Web site.

Progress in the Data Citation Community

December 12th, 2011 by lisrw

Writing in Issue 40, December 2011 of the DPC/DCC publication What’s New, Monica Duke of UKOLN and DCC reviews some of the developments and events which have brought together practitioners  with an interest in scholarly communication, data citation and data publishing. In her editorial “The Data Citation Community Gathers Pace“, she suggests that a community is now forming and gathering pace.

IDCC11 Releases Range of Resources

December 9th, 2011 by lisrw

At the close of another successful International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC11), a range of resources arising from the Conference have been made available on the Digital Curation Centre Web site, including, among others, presentations, posters, videos and tweets  (hash tag #idcc11).