UKOLN News

This year”s Institutional Web Management Workshop will be held at the University of Manchester on 6-8 July. The theme this year is Whose Web Is It Anyway? Online bookings are being accepted. We recommend early booking due to the limited capacity of the lecture theatre.

Revealweb, the national database of material in accessible formats, was singled out for praise in the recent House of Commons Select Committee report on public libraries. Revealweb has also been awarded a Commendation for Widening Access to Information at the Jodi Mattes Webaccessibility Awards. Ann Chapman carried out the strategic review which resulted in the development of Revealweb, developed the bibliographic standard it uses and continues to provide advice to the service.

Issue 15 of the UKOLN Newsletter is now available online. The newsletter provides news, opinion and information on the wide range of activities undertaken by UKOLN, written by its staff. Many of the articles in the Web version are able to give more detail than their print version equivalent.

Issue 15 of the UKOLN Newsletter is now available online. The newsletter provides news, opinion and information on the wide range of activities undertaken by UKOLN, written by its staff. Many of the articles in the Web version are able to give more detail than their print version equivalent.

DC-assist, UKOLN”s help utility for metadata applications, has been updated to include details and examples for all the metadata terms currently in DCMI maintained namespaces (67 terms). The software includes 130 examples of how to use the terms and these are displayed using the DCMI recommended XHTML syntax.

registration is now open for this workshop, to be held at The Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete 11-13 May, 2005. The workshop will focus on the role of repositories within e-learning and e-research and related digital library services, and will consider such repositories as providers of both preservation and access services.

The Stories from the Web site is this year”s winner in the prestigious national eWell-being Awards in the eGovernment category. The awards, now in their third year, recognise and showcase individuals and organisations that use ICT to deliver tangible benefits to society. The Web site, which promotes reading and libraries in a fun way to young people globally, is managed by Birmingham Libraries and hosted by UKOLN.

The DCMI Abstract Model, jointly authored by Andy Powell and Pete Johnston of UKOLN with Mikael Nilsson and Ambjörn Naeve of the KMR Group, CID, NADA, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) in Sweden, has become a DCMI recommendation.

The Good Practice Guide is now housed on the Interoperability Focus site and provides advice on standards and best practices to organisations involved in the development of cultural heritage Web resources and services.

The GPG is now housed on the Interoperability Focus site and provides advice on standards and best practices to organisations involved in the development of cultural heritage Web resources and
services.