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Vision for a library system of the future
I was asked by Ben Showers of the JISC to write a ‘challenging and provocative vision’ for library management systems, for a joint JISC / SCONUL workshop. I was given a free hand with this – the only parameters were that the piece should be non more than a side of A4 paper in length, and that it should use 2020 as its target year for prediction. The workshop is described on the SCONUL website, along with links to the ‘vision’ and the accompanying presentation, both of which are linked to below for convenience: the vision the...
read moreJISC RIM3 project meeting in Edinburgh
Last week I participated in a useful kickoff meeting for projects funded in the third phase of the JISC Research Information Management programme (RIM3). There are just two projects in this phase, CERIF in Action (CIA) and IRIOS-2. I presented a technical synthesis of the last RIM programme, covering the four projects in phase two. Given the current projects’ central aims, most of the discussion focused on implementing CERIF using approaches that will ensure interoperability (eg standard mappings, vocabularies, sharing best practice)....
read moreCall for Submissions for IWMW 2012 event
UKOLN launched its Institutional Web Management Workshop (IWMW) series in 1997. This year IWMW 2012, the 16th in the workshop series which is aimed at those with responsibilities for providing institutional web services, will be held at the University of Edinburgh on 18-20th June. The call for submissions for this year’s event is now open. As described in an accompanying blog post in addition to proposals for plenary talks and 90 minute workshop sessions we also invite other ideas for ways of engaging with the IWMW 2012...
read moreeuroCRIS Best Practice Task Group
I’ve just accepted an invitation to joint the euroCRIS Task Group on Best Practice, which is chaired by Barbara Ebert (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) and Sergey Parinov (CEMI RAS, Moscow). The invitation was based on the work that I’ve been doing for the UK CERIF landscape study which I presented at the last euroCRIS membership meeting in Lille in November 2011. In addition to documenting best practice, the Group plans to produce a Directory of Research Information Systems which will provide an overview of CRIS implementations...
read moreIntroduction: Ed Bremner
Ed Bremner is a research officer within the ISC at UKOLN. He is currently working on the JISC funded Discovery Programme in conjunction with MIMAS that aims to create ‘a metadata ecology’ to support better access to vital collections data in libraries, archives and museums. His primary responsibility is to support the creation and delivery of training materials based on case studies produced by the project. His recent work at UKOLN includes the project management of two work-packages for the European FP7 digitisation project...
read moreCERIF and euroCRIS meetings to be hosted by UKOLN
Research information managers will have an opportunity to participate in a series of euroCRIS and CERIF meetings in Bath in February 2012, hosted by UKOLN. Note that that an Introduction to CERIF document is available for those who are unfamiliar with CERIF (PDF format). For the first time euroCRIS task group meetings will be co-located, and preceded by a CERIF tutorial and data surgery. UKOLN, euroCRIS and JISC are jointly organising these events on 9-10 February. CERIF, the Common European Research Information Format, is now being widely...
read moreFinal Reports from Evidence, Impact, Metrics Work
During 2010-11 UKOLN ran a series of workshops on Evidence, Impact, Metrics which explored approaches to gathering evidence, understanding impact and using metrics related to use of online services. The events were accompanied by a series of blog posts published on the UK Web Focus blog which provided a combination of evidenced-based surveys of usage of online services, discussions of the implications of the findings and reflections on the survey methodologies. A report on this work is available as a series of self-contained documents which...
read moreBlog Analytic Services for JISC MRD Project Blogs
JISC MRD Project Blogs As can be seen from the Google Reader Bundle aggregation of the JISC MRD project blogs many of the projects have now set up a blog, as contractually required, and are now starting to publish blog posts. Approaches to Measuring Effectiveness As mentioned in the workshop session on “Blogging Practices To Support Project Work” which I gave at the JISC MRD Launch Meeting projects may also need to give some thought to ways in which they can measure the effectiveness of their blogs. On the UK Web Focus blog I have...
read moreSmartr For Following JISC MRD Project Twitter Links
I recently summarised a session on blogging which I facilitated at the JISC MRD launch meeting held in Nottingham on 1-2 December 2011. During the session I mentioned the potential value of Twitter in raising the visibility of blog posts. In addition to the ways in which tweets can be retweeted, which can help to raise the visibility of the content of a tweets in ways in which are unlikely to happen for content posted on mailing lists, the content of links posted in tweets can also be accessed using a new generation of tools designed to...
read moreIntroduction: Rosemary Russell
Rosemary Russell is a research officer within the ISC. Her current work focuses on Research Information Management (RIM) and the provision of support and advice for the JISC RIM programme. This includes writing documentation for JISC Calls for Proposals, state of the art reports, CERIF resources, project synthesis reports and ‘landscape’ studies. Rosemary participates in euroCRIS activities and liaises with the euroCRIS board on managing joint meetings. She was previously involved in the UKOLN CERIFy project. Rosemary also has an...
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