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.
JSC Certificate Award
November 13th, 2006 by Thom BuntingHERDA-SW Workshop on Digital Repositories
November 13th, 2006 by Thom BuntingRachel 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 BuntingThe 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 BuntingJulie 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 BuntingMaureen 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 BuntingDCC 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 BuntingBrian 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 BuntingA 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 BuntingBrian 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 BuntingUKOLN has a vacancy for an Events and Marketing Manager to cover maternity leave. The closing date for applications is 15 November 2006.