UKOLN News

UKOLN is a partner in a new 5.5 million pound EPSRC-funded Grand Challenge project led by the University of Bath Mechanical Engineering Department. The project involves 11 universities. UKOLN”s contribution to the project will be to help engineering and construction firms manage important information about hospitals, schools, military equipment and aircraft safely and securely over long periods of time.

UKOLN is a partner in a new 5.5 million pound EPSRC-funded Grand Challenge project led by the University of Bath Mechanical Engineering Department. The project involves 11 universities and has been set up to help engineering and construction firms provide hospitals, schools, military equipment and aircraft for their customers long-term. The Immortal Information project is investigating “through-life knowledge management: strategies and tools for the emerging product-service business paradigm” in the engineering field. UKOLN”s in-house information management expertise together with DCC connections provide some potentially interesting research elements to the partnership.

A Podcast which provides a summary of the recent WWW 2005 conference has been published by CDNTL, University of Bath.

This year”s Institutional Web Management Workshop is now fully subscribed.

Brian Kelly gave a paper which described limitations in traditional approaches to Web accessibility and outlined an alternative approach which has been developed in conjunction with TechDis. The paper was presented at the W4A conference which preceded the international WWW 2005 conference held recently in Japan.

Liz Lyon presented From research data to new knowledge: a lifecycle approach at the CNI-JISC-SURF Conference: Making the strategic case for institutional repositories, held in Amsterdam on 10-11 May 2005.

Presentations from the workshop – held at The Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete 11-13 May, 2005 – are now available.

Liz Lyon presented From research data to new knowledge: a lifecycle approach at the CNI-JISC-SURF Conference, Amsterdam, 10-11 May 2005 – an invitation-only event.

The OAI-rights effort, initiated in collaboration with project RoMEO, have announced the release of their guidelines for conveying rights expressions about metadata in the OAI-PMH framework. Andy Powell was a member of the team that contributed to this effort. The guidelines specify a mechanism for including rights expressions that pertain to the contents of the <metadata> parts of records in OAI-PMH responses and the design has been guided by the need for simple and clear semantics that will allow service-providers to make harvesting and use decisions based on these rights expressions.

The Spring issue of Ariadne was published on 30 April and includes articles by Pete Johnston who introduces the JISC Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry (IEMSR) Project, Marieke Guy who examines what the Internet has to offer the art of reading, two articles on digital preservation and supporting best practice as well as a description of how the British Library”s training package for public library colleagues came to be designed. Our colleague here at University of Bath, Niki Panteli, identifies ways of developing trust within global virtual teams and Daniel Chudnov and his fellow authors” article on a “gather locally, share globally” approach to OpenURLs and metadata autodiscovery in scholarly and non-scholarly environments has much to offer.