UKOLN News

ECDL 2004 took place at the University of Bath from 12-17 September 2004 and presentations are now becoming available.

UKOLN and UCISA are jointly organising a workshop on “Beyond Email: Strategies for Collaborative Working and Learning in the 21st Century” which will address the challenges in deploying emerging technologies such as instant messaging, RSS news feeds, Blogs and Wikis across an institution. The workshop will be held at the University of Leeds on 22 November 2004.

Most of the presentations from the joint JISC/CNI meeting in Brighton earlier this year are now available from the conference Web pages.

The newly designed UKOLN Newsletter is now available. Issue 14, which will also appear in print, contains a variety of news and opinion pieces from across UKOLN.

Places for ECDL 2004 are filling up fast! To register for this prestigious conference please follow the link to the online booking instructions.

places are filling up fast! To register at this prestigious conference please follow the link and follow the online instructions.

A joint meeting of the Metadata for Education Group and the CETIS Metadata/Digital Repositories SIG, on the topic of the UK LOM Core application profile, will take place in Glasgow on Tuesday 17 August 2004.

The latest issue of Ariadne has a number of articles in relation to the Collection Description Focus: Ann Chapman and Bridget Robinson write on the work of the Collection Description Focus and introduce articles on Cornucopia, the Information Environment Service Registry and Tap into Bath, the latter being co-authored by Alison Baud of University of Bath Library and Learning Centre and Ann Chapman. Daniel Chudnov and colleagues describe a path “Towards Library Groupware with Personalised Link Routing” while Karen Coyle, author of “Rights Expression Languages: A Report for the Library of Congress”, makes a case in her article for the requirements of digital libraries with regard to Rights Management. Eric Lease Morgan provides a sound introduction to SRW/SRU, sibling Web Service protocols designed to define a standard form for Internet search queries. Meanwhile Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the evolution of her university”s institutional repository, with references to the recent House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report.

has a number of articles in relation to the Collection Description Focus: Ann Chapman and Bridget Robinson write on the work of the Collection Description Focus and introduce articles on Cornucopia, the Information Environment Service Registry and Tap into Bath, the latter being co-authored by Alison Baud of University of Bath Library and Learning Centre and Ann Chapman. Daniel Chudnov and colleagues describe a path “Towards Library Groupware with Personalised Link Routing” while Karen Coyle, author of “Rights Expression Languages: A Report for the Library of Congress”, makes a case in her article for the requirements of digital libraries with regard to Rights Management. Eric Lease Morgan provides a sound introduction to SRW/SRU, sibling Web Service protocols designed to define a standard form for Internet search queries. Meanwhile Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the evolution of her university”s institutional repository, with references to the recent House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report.

Registration for the 8th European Conference on Digital Libraries is now open. Further details including programme and full list of papers can be found here.