UKOLN News

Emma Tonkin of UKOLN will be speaking on the topic of real-world metadata schema
registries
at XTech 2007 in Paris on Thursday 17 May 2007. The theme of the conference, to be held
over
15-18 May, will be “The Ubiquitous Web”.

Brian Kelly will give a talk entitled “Building (and Sustaining) Impact for your Web Resource” at an ARLIS study day on 23 May 2007. The theme of the day is “DIP”ping your toe in the water: Digital Image Projects, where to begin and how not to end” and will be held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square, London.

Book now for the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG) seminar in London on 8 June 2007. Focusing on sharing ideas for incorporating blogging into your working life, and suitable for experienced bloggers and non-bloggers alike, this event is aimed at practitioners engaged in traditional “backroom” activities such as cataloguing, indexing, acquisitions, and knowledge management.

Brian Kelly will present a paper entitled “Accessibility 2.0: People, Policy and Processes” at the W4A 2007 conference in Banff, Canada on 8 May 2007. This paper was co-authored with David Sloan, Stephen Brown, Jane Seale,Helen Petrie, Patrick Lauke and Simon Ball.

You can now book to attend the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2007, a 3-day event to be held at the University of York from Monday 16 to Wednesday 18 July 2007. You will be requested to select your parallel sessions when registering so please read
up in advance.

Brian Kelly has been invited to give a 10-minute talk entitled “Content Creation: Web 2.0 Is Providing the Solution” for an online Webinar on the theme of Web 2.0 for content sharing for learning and teaching which will be held on 1 May 2007.

Maureen Pennock, DCC researcher at UKOLN, has been invited to speak at this year”s annual conference of the Records Management Society on the subject of managing and preserving e-mails. Her presentation, entitled “Scaling the e-mail mountain: a records manager”s guide to e-mail curation” is scheduled for the afternoon of Tuesday 1 May. The conference will take place at the Hilton Metropole Hotel in Brighton from 30 April to 2 May.

Following much consultation during the course of last year, the Research Information Network (RIN) has drawn up a set of draft Principles for the Stewardship of Research Data to meet the challenge of managing the unprecedented quantities and varieties of digital data now being created. This is particularly relevant to the recent work UKOLN has been undertaking for the JISC to investigate the relationships between data centres and institutions which may develop data repositories.

Michael Day will be speaking at the DigiCCurr 2007 conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, on the subject of “Cooperation for Digital Preservation and Curation: Collaboration for Collection Development in Instititutional Repository Networks”

Brian Kelly held a workshop and gave several presentations at the “Museums and the Web Conference” held in San Francisco on 11-13 April 2007.