During her visit to Australia in November 2009, Liz Lyon was interviewed for her thoughts towards the article Putting the citizen into science
by Suzannah Lyons which has recently been published by ABC Science Online . Asked about the increased involvement of ordinary people in scientific projects, Liz remarked, “Clearly in the last few years these sorts of opportunities have been greatly facilitated by social networks and the collaborative tools that we’ve seen with Web 2.0.” She pointed to the way in which citizen science is increasing public awareness of scientific work, “perhaps in some ways demystifying it.” While stressing the need to contribute reliable data in such a partnership, Liz concluded, “Citizen science is not only changing the way we do and perceive science, it’s also empowering people to make a difference.”
Liz Lyon Interviewed for ABC Science Online
April 19th, 2010 by lisrwCodes, Clouds and Constellations at the CNI Spring Meeting
April 15th, 2010 by lisrwLiz Lyon was invited to give a presentation at the closing plenary session of the recent Spring Meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) in Baltimore, Maryland. The slides from her presentation entitled Codes, Clouds and Constellations: Open Science in the Data Decade are now available.
Off the digi-scale
April 14th, 2010 by Thom BuntingBrian Kelly is featured in an interview published in the April issue of Information World Review.
An Evidence-based Approach to Collaborative Ontology Development
April 9th, 2010 by lisrwAndrew Hewson of UKOLN gave a poster presentation entitled An evidence-based approach to collaborative ontology development on behalf of the authors Emma Tonkin of UKOLN, Heather D. Pfeiffer, New Mexico State University and Andy himself at the Workshop on Matching and Meaning 2010 (WMM 2010) held at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK over 31 March – 1 April. The aim of this workshop was to bring together researchers interested in the problems of automated development, evolution and interpretation of ontologies in the many different domains in which they occur. This poster is now available.
Approaches to Accessibility in Developing Countries at W4A 2010
April 9th, 2010 by lisrwBrian Kelly is lead author of a paper entitled Developing Countries; Developing Experiences: Approaches to Accessibility for the Real World which has been accepted at the Web4All (W4A) 2010 Conference, the 7th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility. The authors of the paper are Brian Kelly (UKOLN), Sarah Lewthwaite (University of Nottingham) and David Sloan (University of Dundee). The W4A Conference takes place over 26 – 27 April in Raleigh, NC, USA.
The Why, What, How and When of RDA
March 31st, 2010 by lisrwSlides are now available for Ann Chapman’s recent talk entitled The Why, What, How and When of RDA: the current state of play given to delegates from academic and public libraries at the CILIP Executive Briefing Day on Resource Description and Access (RDA) held in London on 23 March 2010 and repeated on 30 March 2010. The day focused on the need for RDA, the strategic aspects of moving to RDA and the challenges of implementation.
Summing up the UKOLN/MLA Web 2.0 Workshops
March 31st, 2010 by lisrwWe have now completed the series of 13 workshops introducing the Museums Libraries and Archives community to Web 2.0 and the social Web. A blog post summing up the workshops is available on UKOLN’s Cultural Heritage blog.
State of the Art of Preservation and Curation in Institutional Repositories
March 29th, 2010 by lisrwThe DCC has released a report by Alex Ball of UKOLN on the state of the art of preservation and curation in institutional repositories. Despite their initial focus on rapid access to research, repositories are increasingly seen to have a curatorial role for institutions’ digital assets. As a result, a range of tools has been developed to assist in everything from drawing up preservation plans and policies to extracting preservation metadata from files, alongside modular architectures for linking the tools together. The report, entitled Preservation and Curation in Institutional Repositories, presents the major advances in these areas and examines recent developments.
BRTF: Making the Business Case for Digital Preservation
March 23rd, 2010 by lisrwThe Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access (BRTF-SDPA), a new international initiative funded by JISC and other organisations, has recently released its report entitled Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Information. Neil Grindley, programme manager at JISC, said, “This report takes a clear-headed and hard look at some of the ideas surrounding preservation ..” JISC is organising a free one-day symposium in London on 6 May 2010 where the Blue Ribbon task force will be presenting its final report alongside responses from the BBC, the Natural History Museum, the British Library, European Bioinformatics Institute and the European Commission. Further information is available.
State of the Art of Web Archiving
March 18th, 2010 by lisrwThe Digital Curation Centre (DCC) has released a report on the state of the art of Web archiving by Alex Ball of UKOLN. Web archiving is important not only for future research but also for organisations’ records management processes; however, it is beset by technical, organisational, legal and social issues. The report indicates how these issues are being addressed in current research and development projects.