Introduction: Brian Kelly

Brian Kelly is a member of the ISC’s Executive. In his role as UK Web Focus, Brian has interests in identifying ways of using innovative Web developments to support institutional activities. Brian also has responsibilities for managing the ISC’s communications activities.

Brian is chair of the programme committee for the ISC’s Institutional Web Management Workshop 2012 (IWMW 2012) , an event that he launched in 1997 and that continues to support the development of the institutional Web management community of practice.

Brian has long-standing interests in the preservation of Web resources and is continuing work in this area, which will include the preservation of content and services hosted on Cloud services.

During 2010/11 Brian ran the Evidence, Impact, Metrics activity, which developed approaches for the systematic quantitative evidence-gathering approaches that could help identify and shape the impact of online services. Brian will continue to be involved in such evidence-gathering approaches, in particular as part of the joint UKOLN/CETIS JISC Observatory work.  This work aims to identify early technology trends in order to ensure that JISC and the JISC Community can make appropriate plans for managing the implications of technological developments.

Brian will continue his UK Web Focus blog, which will provide personal observations on technological developments and invite discussions on such developments. In addition, he will provide more factual contributions to the ISC blog and Web site.