UKOLN News

Brian Kelly was interviewed by Derek Morrison, Head of CDNTL, the e-learning unit at the University of Bath in the first Podcast published as part of the Auricle e-learning Blog.

The UK Digital Curation Centre (DCC) is pleased to announce the dates of the 1st International Digital Curation Conference which will be held at the Hilton Bath City 29th-30th September 2005. The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) is jointly funded by the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and the EPSRC (Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council) on behalf of the UK Research Councils. The DCC provides a focus on research into digital curation expertise and best practice for the storage, management and preservation of digital information to enable its use and reuse over time.

The UK Digital Curation Centre (DCC)is pleased to announce the dates of the 1st International Digital Curation Conference which will be held at the Hilton Bath City 29th-30th September 2005.
The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) is jointly funded by the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and the EPSRC (Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council) on behalf of the UK Research Councils. The DCC provides a focus on research into digital curation expertise and best practice for the storage, management and preservation of digital information to enable its use and reuse over time.

A feature article on this project has been published in the Guardian (23 Feb. 2005) in the ePublic supplement, and is also available online.

The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) together with the Open Digital Rights Initiative (ODRL) have announced the formation of a joint Working Group to develop a profile of ODRL/DCMI metadata usage. The profile will show how to make combined use of the rights-related DCMI metadata terms and the ODRL rights expression language. The joint Working Group Chairs are Andy Powell (UKOLN, University of Bath) and Renato Iannella (ODRL Initiative).

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? We invite proposals for plenary talks and workshop sessions on this theme or on other areas related to the provision of institutional Web services.

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 proposed recommendation.

There is still time to enter the Tap into Bath quiz and win tickets to some of Bath”s museums; entry deadline is 28th February. Tap into Bath is a new online resource that will allow members of the public, school pupils and researchers to find information on the hundreds of collections housed in 30 of the city”s heritage, academic, commercial and professional organisations – from the Roman Baths Museum to the Bath Chronicle. The Tap into Bath Project has been co-ordinated jointly by the University of Bath Library & Learning Centre and UKOLN.

DELOS invites papers for a forthcoming workshop on the topic of digital repositories. This is a joint workshop of the Semantic Interoperability and Preservation clusters of the DELOS project and will take place in Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete from 11 to 13 May, 2005. For further information on submitting a paper please visit the workshop website.

Case Study 3 describes Collections Navigator at the Natural History Museum and Case Study 4 describes Cornucopia.