This page provides the abstracts for the plenary talks.
Participants will be able to attend all of the plenary talks.
Session Title
This page provide details of the optional
"Introduction To JISC
And The Web Community" session.
- Title:
- Introduction To JISC And The Web Community
- Speakers:
- Brian Kelly (UKOLN) and Louisa Dale (JISC)
- Abstract:
- This optional session will provide an introduction to the Web community.
The talk will:
- Review the main challenges which are faced by members of institutional Web management teams.
- Give an introduction to JISC and describe the services and support provided
by JISC which can be of use of members of institutional Web management teams.
- Describe sources of information relevant to members of institutional Web management teams.
- Provide an opportunity for participants to ask questions of the speakers.
- Time:
- This session will take place from 11:00-12:30 on Tuesday 27th July 2004.
- Location:
- This session will take place in the Avon Room in the University Centre
(building no. 29 on the campus map).
- Who Can Attend:
- This session has been organised for the Institutional Web Management Workshop,
which is being held at the University of Birmingham on 27-29th July.
The session is open to all delegates at the event - no prior registration is needed.
In addition this session is also open to staff at the University of Birmingham and
local higher and further educational institutions who may have an interest in this
area. Note that participation in the Institutional Web Management Workshop is only
open to registered delegates.
- Contact Details
Louisa Dale
Partnership Manager
JISC
University of Bristol
2nd Floor, Beacon House
Queens Road
Bristol BS8 1QU
Email: louisa.dale AT bristol.ac.uk
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Brian Kelly
UK Web Focus
UKOLN
University of Bath
Claverton Down
BATH BA2 7AY
Email: b.kelly AT ukoln.ac.uk
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Trials, Trips and Tribulations of an Integrated Web Strategy
This page provides details for the plenary talk on
"Trials, Trips and Tribulations of an Integrated Web Strategy".
- Title:
- Trials, Trips and Tribulations of an Integrated Web Strategy
- Speaker:
- David Supple, University of Birmingham
- Abstract:
- This session will examine some of the issues that Birmingham has faced over
the last year of further developing and integrating its web strategy across the institution.
From personal Web pages to major Portal projects and VLEs
to VREs the session will build
on the presentation given at last year's Institutional Web Management Workshop
to address some of the technology, business and cultural issues that continue to
bring together a number of roads towards the future.
- Time:
- This session took place from 14:00-14:45 on
Tuesday 27th July 2004.
- Contact Details
- David Supple
Team Leader, Corporate Web Team
University of Birmingham
Birmingham
Email: d.r.supple AT bham.ac.uk
E-business: Why Join In?
This page provides details for the plenary talk on
"E-business: Why Join In?".
- Title:
- E-business: Why Join In?
- Speakers:
- Heidi Fraser-Krauss and Ester Ruskuc, University of St Andrews
- Abstract:
- The presentation will focus on the broader issues behind a move to e-business,
and will examine the strategic and operational objectives of why an organisation
should decide to make such a move. The presenters will also highlight the
significant cultural changes needed in the organisation to make e-business work
by using examples from the successful e-business implementation in at the
University of St Andrews.
- Time:
- This session tooke place from 14:45-15:30 on Tuesday 27th July 2004.
- Contact Details
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Heidi Fraser-Krauss
University of St Andrews
St Andrews
Email: hmfk AT st-andrews.ac.uk |
Ester Ruskuc
University of St Andrews
St Andrews
Email: er3 AT st-andrews.ac.uk |
Socrates: Building an Intranet for the UK Research Councils
This page provides details for the plenary talk on
"Socrates: Building an Intranet for the UK Research Councils".
- Title:
- Socrates: Building an Intranet for the UK Research Councils
- Speaker:
- Tony Brown and Matt Thrower, PPARC
- Abstract:
- The Research Councils: effectively eight separate departments of a single
organisation, each with its own information systems, but sharing common information
requirements. The benefits of a shared intranet were obvious .... who knows, in
time such a system could even transform the way the Councils worked together.
The problem: there was (and is) no central body to make the decision to develop
such a system, no one body that could decide what it should be, and no central
resource to carry out the work. The presentation covers how it was achieved,
and how the various issues, considerations and problems encountered on the way
were addressed. Finally, we ask the tricky question, now that it's here,
what do we do next?
- Time:
- This session took place from 09:00-09:45 on Wednesday 28th July 2004.
- Contact Details:
- Tony Brown and Matt Thrower
PPARC
Email: Tony.Brown AT pparc.ac.uk
Matt.Thrower AT pparc.ac.uk
LSE for You: From Innovation to Realism and Beyond
This page provides details for the plenary talk on
"LSE for You: From Innovation to Realism and Beyond".
- Title:
- LSE for You: From Innovation to Realism and Beyond
- Speaker:
- Stephen Bulley, LSE
- Abstract:
- From the highs of the 2002 awards for excellence through the 2003 "trough of disillusionment"
LSE for You is now taking a broader more inclusive and sustainable direction.
Tracking its move away from purely self-service administration, this presentation
will describe how the LSE is tackling the difficult interoperability issues of
authentication and authorisation to institution wide resources including proprietary
student record and virtual learning systems, groupware, e-journals, working papers,
e-prints, research data sets and Library catalogues. The aim being to make the portal
into a gateway to the School's fully managed information and knowledge environment.
As well as describing the changes to the architecture and design of LSE for You
to reflect user needs, Stephen will touch on the important issues surrounding
integrating departmental strategies and how individual service providers must
work collaboratively to achieve a shared institutional goal.
- Time:
- This session was scheduled to take place from 09:45-10:30 on Wednesday 28th July 2004.
However due to transport difficulties the talk was given at 14:45:15:30 on the same day.
- Contact Details
- Stephen Bulley
Business Systems and Services
LSE
Houghton Street
London
WC2A 2AE
Email: s.bulley AT lse.ac.uk
Beyond Free Beer: Is Using Open Source A Matter Of Choosing Software or Joining A Political Movement?
This page provides details for the plenary talk on
"Beyond Free Beer: Is Using Open Source A Matter Of Choosing Software
or Joining A Political Movement?".
- Title:
- Beyond Free Beer: Is Using Open Source A Matter Of Choosing Software or Joining A Political Movement?
- Speaker:
- Sebastian Rahtz, University of Oxford
- Abstract:
- Is becoming a developer of open source the most effective way to deploy open
source applications? Or can users and deployment be separated cleanly from programmers
and development? We will revisit the story of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" in
laying out how open source software is typically developed, but also consider the
many other different support and development models out there. The important
feature of open source is the licence; but the second most important thing is
how the communities work on the ongoing development of the software. Is working
with enterprise solutions from Red Hat or IBM the long-term answer, or is it an
attempt to stifle true open source? This talk will attempt to look beyond the
free beer of open source for UK HE and FE institutions.
- Time:
- This session took place from 11:00-11:45 on Wednesday 28th July 2004.
- Contact Details
- Sebastian Rahtz
OUCS
University of Oxford
13 Banbury Road
Oxford
OX2 6NN
Email: sebastian.rahtz AT computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Life After E-mail: Strategies For Collaboration in the 21st Century
This page provide details for the plenary talk on
"Life After E-mail: Strategies For Collaboration in the 21st Century".
- Title:
- Life After E-mail: Strategies For Collaboration in the 21st Century
- Speaker:
- Brian Kelly, UKOLN
- Abstract:
- A strength of Web developers in the UK Higher Education community is the
willingness to share resources and experiences. The Web development community
makes use of collaborative tools such as JISCMail mailing lists and face-to-face
events such as the Institutional Web Management Workshop series.
Increasingly within our institutions we are finding use being made of a range
of additional collaborative tools, such as instant messaging, blogs and Wikis.
In this talk Brian Kelly reviews these emerging collaborative tools, outlines
the challenges we will face in providing and managing such tools for use in teaching
and research and will argue that we should use such tools ourselves.
- Requirements:
- Standard networked PC, with MS PowerPoint and Web browser
- Time:
- This session will take place from 14:00-14:45 on
Wednesday 28th July 2004.
- Contact Details
- Brian Kelly
UKOLN
University Of Bath
BATH
BA 2 7AY
Phone: 01225 383943
Email: b.kelly AT ukoln.ac.uk
Strategic Staff Development for the Web-enabled Organisation
This page provides details for the plenary talk on
"Strategic Staff Development for the Web-enabled Organisation".
- Title:
- Strategic Staff Development for the Web-enabled Organisation
- Speaker:
- Dave Hartland, Netskills, University of Newcastle
- Abstract:
The Web is transforming educational institutions but the skills of the staff
are not keeping pace with this transformation. Ad hoc and small scale training
courses are the most that many institutions offer to improve staff skills. Staff
development and training plans need to be created at a strategic level.
A majority of staff now need to be able to use the wide range of Web-based services
that have become "mission critical".
Information provision, documentation, management systems, e-learning, marketing,
e-commerce are just some of the services provided in many institutions.
There is a need to create strategic staff development plans and programmes in order
to take full advantage of these services. An integrated programme will provide the
appropriate level of training for the appropriate staff at the appropriate time.
Examples of training and development might include:
- Technical training programmes for web service managers and providers
- Content provision training for administrators and teaching staff
- Policy, standards and legal issue seminars for managers
- Information skills sessions for students
A staff development plan will aim to integrate programmes of this type in a
complimentary way.
This presentation will provide an insight into developing such a plan and
how it can help in terms of providing career development and staff retention.
It will also discuss the issue of convincing senior managers of the need for this
strategic approach to staff development and training in a web-enabled institution.
- Time:
- This session was scheduled to take place from 14:45-15:30 on
Wednesday 28th July 2004. However due to changed circumstances the talk
actually took place from 11:00-11:45 on Thursday 29th July 2004.
- Contact Details
- Dave Hartland
Netskills
University of Newcastle
Newcastle
Tel: 0191 222 8087
Email: d.w.hartland AT netskills.ac.uk
Beyond Web Accessibility: Providing A Holistic User Experience
This page provides details for the plenary talk on
"Beyond Web Accessibility: Providing A Holistic User Experience".
- Title:
- Beyond Web Accessibility: Providing A Holistic User Experience
- Speaker:
- Lawrie Phipps and Brian Kelly
- Abstract:
- The publication of the DRC's
Formal Investigation report: Web Accessibility
has generated much interest and debate. In this talk Lawrie Phipps, TechDis
and Brian Kelly, UKOLN will argue the need for a broader approach to Web
accessibility than is currently taken and will outline a holistic model for
Web accessibility.
- Time:
- This session was scheduled to take place from 11:00-11:45 on Thursday 29th July 2004.
However due to changed circumstances the talk actually took place
from 09:45-10:30 on Wednesday 28th July 2004.
- Contact Details
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Lawrie Phipps
TechDis
The Network Centre
Innovation Close
York Science Park
York
YO10 5ZF
Phone: 01904 754533
Email: lawrie AT techdis.ac.uk
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Brian Kelly
UKOLN
University Of Bath
BATH
BA 2 7AY
Phone: 01225 383943
Email: b.kelly AT ukoln.ac.uk
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