A Contextual Framework For Standards


Background

Brian Kelly delivered a paper A Contextual Framework For Standards at an international workshop on E-Government: Barriers and Opportunities from 11.30-12.00 on 23rd May 2006 in Edinburgh.

Materials

Slides

Slides
[HTML format] - [MS PowerPoint 97/2000 format]

Slides on the Slideshare.net Service

The slides are available on the Slideshare.net. This service provides additional exposure to the resource together with a annotation service and statistics on the number of accesses.

 

 

Recording

Recording Of Presentation
[MP3 format]
Podcast
Podcast [RSS format]

Paper

Paper
[About the paper] - [HTML format] - [MS Word 97/2000 format] - [PDF format]

About The Variants Of This Paper

The original paper was produced using MS Word. In addition an Adobe PDF version of the paper was prooduced for submission to the publishers.

The accompanying presentation was produced using MS PowerPoint. In addition a HTML version of the slides was produced from MS PowerPoint. Note that although the HTML version is not HTML-compliant, the option has been selected to be useable in a wide range of browsers.

A recording of the talk was created using an iPod. The file was converted to MP3 format and uploaded to this Web server. The file can be accessed directly. In addition an RSS file has alos been provided to allow automated subscription using a Podcast client.

Biographical Details

Brian Kelly was an early Web pioneer in the UK higher education sector, having helped set up a Web service at the University of Leeds in January 1993 - one of the first institutional Web services in the UK, and one of the first 50 registered at CERN.

Brian is now based in UKOLN, a national centre of expertise in digital information management, located at the University of Bath, UK.

Brian has been involved in supporting JISC's use of open standards to support its development programmes. This work dates back to 1995, when Brian contributed to a standards document for JISC's eLib programme. More recently Brian was the project leader for the QA Focus project, which developed a quality assurance framework to support JISC development programmes. Brian is currently active in developing an approach to the use of open standards which reflects the complexity of the technical environment and the diversity to be found in the higher educational sector.