News 2006-02
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JISC Digital Repositories Programme in DLIB
Febrauary's DLIB magazine (http://www.dlib.org/) includes a number of 'in-brief' articles about projects from the Digital Repositories Programme. Catherine Jones and Bryan Lawrence from CLADDIER, David White from SPIRE and Dr. Stephen Charles from MIDESS have all contributed, plus there is also a piece about Programme support team and this wiki.
See http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february06/02inbrief.html for the full-text, or find links to each item from the Articles and papers pages on DigiRep.
Look out for next month's DLIB which will feature the PERX project.
Julie Allinson 2006-02-15
GRADE survey on geospatial content in Institutional Repositories
The JISC Digital Repositories project 'GRADE : Scoping a Geospatial Repository for Academic Deposit and Extraction' is undertaking a survey to understand the extent to which existing Institutional Repositories currently manage geospatial content.
Following this baseline audit of institutional repositories GRADE can provide a firm evidence base for assertions on how institutional repositories deal with geospatial data in actuality and expose current practices, benefits and limitations. This will assist in weighing the merits of an institutional vs. media-centric repository approach and shed light on whether technology can assist to blur these distinctions and remove the repository choice dilemma. It will also help delineate best practices for other repositories to adhere to.
The survey is at http://edina.ac.uk/projects/grade/status4.html.
PLEASE take a few minutes and help GRADE by completing the survey.
There is an Amazon book token prize as an added incentive
Julie Allinson 2006-02-08
Use of copyright material in learning support
Of potential interest to projects looking at copyright issues and e-learning is the following project:
LISU (Library and Information and Statistics Unit), based in the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University, are carrying out a survey on the use of copyright material for learning support in Higher Education. It looks at use of teaching materials, the ways in which these are made available to students, how third party material is made available to students, it also looks at trends in use and how this might develop over the next three years, copyright clearance and finally online learning environments.
Additional details are available from LISU project page: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/dils/lisu/pages/projects/projects.html
The survey is available at: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/dis/lisu/forms/ucmls.html
Projects may want to encourage responses to the survey, or to raise awareness of it.
Sue Manuel 2006-02-02
Call for papers: Internet Librarian International 2006 (ILI)
The Call for Papers for Internet Librarian International 2006, 16-17 October 2006 Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, has been announced. See:
http://www.internet-librarian.com/CallForSpeakers.shtml
Deadline for proposals is 30th March 2006.
Roddy McLeod 2006-02-02
Digital Repositories in UK universities and colleges
Forthcoming in the February issue of Freepint, is an article entitled 'Digital Repositories in UK universities and colleges' by the Digital Repositories Programme Manager, Neil Jacobs.
The full text of the article will be available on DigiRep soon.
Julie Allinson 2006-02-01
