Welcome to UKOLN
UKOLN is a research organisation that aims to inform practice and influence policy in the areas of: digital libraries, information systems, bibliographic management, and web technologies. It provides network information services, including the Ariadne magazine, and runs workshops and conferences.
Ariadne Issue 64 Now Available
Issue 64 of Ariadne was published recently with articles from Dorothea Salo and Brian Westra on how library services may best adapt to the role of data steward and the uses of data services needs assessments for science research staff. There is also a trio of articles in respect of public libraries and how best they make use of blogging, the 23 Things professional self-development programme and the use of new technologies in the planned Library of Birmingham. Meanwhile Ed Fay presents a comparison of repository software that was carried out at LSE in support of digital library infrastructure development and Caroline Williams and colleagues look back at the history and achievements of Intute, and reflect on lessons learned as the service enters its final year. The issue also offers an article on the practicalities FRBR can offer cataloguers of accessible materials with reference to the Celia Library for the Visually Impaired in Helsinki as well as a description of Trove, 'a new discovery experience focused on Australia and Australians,' a major development in the country's national digital information infrastructure. In addition the issue offers an unusually wide range of reports on events covering conferences and workshops that have been with us for some time as well as some that have emerged more recently.
DCC Roadshow 2010 - 2011
"Institutional Challenges in the Data Decade"
The Digital Curation Centre would like to announce the launch of the first DCC Roadshow. The event will comprise a series of inter-linked workshops aimed at supporting institutional data management, planning and training.
The first will take place 2-4 November in Bath and will be open to participants from Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) in the south-west of England. Please mark the date in your diary and check the DCC website for further information and additional events.
Registration opens September 2010.
UKOLN Blogs
A number of staff at UKOLN make use of blogs to support their dissemination
and user engagement activities, either as part of UKOLN's core activities
or to support project work.
Recently launched:
Live blogs:
Archived blogs: