JSC Certificate Award

November 13th, 2006 by Thom Bunting

Certificates have been awarded to Ann Chapman of UKOLN and other members of the Working Group on GMD/SMD by the Joint Steering Committee on the Revision of AACR (JSC) to express its appreciation of the significant contribution that their work has made to the development of AACR/RDA.

HERDA-SW Workshop on Digital Repositories

November 13th, 2006 by Thom Bunting

Rachel Heery of UKOLN led a workshop on Digital Repositories organised by HERDA-SW, the Association of Higher Education Institutions in the South West at its recent Annual Conference in Torquay. Her presentation is now available.

Materials from “Exploiting the Potential of Wikis”

November 13th, 2006 by Thom Bunting

The UKOLN workshop “Exploiting the Potential of Wikis” took place at Austin Court, Birmingham recently to capacity participation. Speakers” slides and notes from the discussion groups are now available.

Eprints Special Session

November 8th, 2006 by Thom Bunting

Julie Allinson of UKOLN and Andy Powell of the Eduserv Foundation chaired a special session on metadata for scholarly publications (eprints) at the recent Dublin Core conference in Mexico. Their presentation during the session is now available.

Managing and Preserving E-mails

November 8th, 2006 by Thom Bunting

Maureen Pennock has contributed an article of this name to the October (Issue 134) edition of the “Records Management Bulletin”, the bi-monthly magazine of the Records Management Society. A pre-print of this item is now available.

DCC to carry out JISC 4/04 Programme Synthesis

November 6th, 2006 by Thom Bunting

DCC researchers at UKOLN are to embark on an exercise to synthesise the results of JISC”s Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions Programme (also known as the 4/04 Programme). This exercise will bring together and synthesise the tangible results of all projects funded under this programme.

Thinking the Unthinkable

November 6th, 2006 by Thom Bunting

Brian Kelly will facilitate a workshop session on “Thinking the Unthinkable” at the CETIS 2006 Conference to be held at The Lowry, Manchester over 14-15 November 2006.

Searching the long tail

November 2nd, 2006 by Thom Bunting

A paper by Emma Tonkin entitled “Searching the long tail: Hidden structure in social tagging” has been accepted by the American Society of Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) for inclusion in its upcoming 17th Annual SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop in Austin, Texas.

Brian Kelly Marks Ten Years at UKOLN

November 1st, 2006 by Thom Bunting

Brian Kelly started work at UKOLN on 1 November 1996. He has written an article in which he reflects on his first decade as UK Web Focus.

Vacancy: Events and Marketing Manager (Maternity Cover)

October 31st, 2006 by Thom Bunting

UKOLN has a vacancy for an Events and Marketing Manager to cover maternity leave. The closing date for applications is 15 November 2006.