ILI 2005 Conference - October 2005
The following sessions were given at the
Internet Librarian International
2005 Conference held at the Copthorne Tara Hotel, London,
on Monday 10th - Tuesday 11th October 2005, with the workshop
session on Sunday 9th October 2005.
- Title
- Digital Tools for Collaboration: Email Must Die!
- About the session
- Brian Kelly gave a talk on "Email Must Die!" in a session on "Digital Tools for Collaboration"
with Aaron Schmidt and
Michael Stephens.
- Abstract
- The talk will describe the limitations of well-established communications tools
such as email (and attending conferences!) and review their limitations.
The advantages of technologies such as Blogs, Wikis, instant messaging, Podcasting, etc.
will be described, and reasons for the difficulties in such technologies taking
off will be explored.
- Date And Time
- The session took place in the "Blogs, Wikis & Collaboration Tools"
session from 10:30-11:30 on 10th October, 2005.
- Materials
- About - [MS PowerPoint] - [HTML]
- Title
- Facing The Challenges Of A Standards-Based Approach To Web Development
- Abstract
- Web development work within the library sector usually seeks to make use of
open standards in order to ensure application- and device-independence,
widespread accessibility and interoperability. In practice, however, open standards
may be difficult or expensive to deploy. Indeed open standards may even fail to
gain widespread market acceptance. Rather than abandoning a commitment to open
standards in this talk Brian Kelly will argue the need to adopt an open standards
culture, which acknowledges the benefits of open standards, yet provides sufficient
flexibility to recognise times when proprietary solutions may be appropriate
or open standards too immature to be widely adopted. An approach which can help in
the selection of standards will be described, together with a description of a
framework for use of open standards.
- Date And Time
- The talk was part of the "Using Open Standards and Open Source Software" session
which was held on 11th October 2005 from 13:45-14:45.
The talk lasted for 30 minutes from 13:45-14:15.
- Materials
- About - [MS PowerPoint] - [HTML]
- Title
- Folksonomies - The Sceptics View
- About
- Brian Kelly took part in a panel session on "Folksonomies: Community Metadata?".
Brian gave the sceptics view on folksonomies.
- Abstract
- There is much hype at present regarding folksonomies. Can this hype be justified
In this talk Brian Kelly gives a sceptic's view on folksonomies.
- Date And Time
- The talk was part of "Track A: Blogs, Wikis, Collaboration"
which was held on 10th October 2005 from 16:00-17:15.
- Materials
- About - [MS PowerPoint] - [HTML]
- Title
- A Holistic Approach To Web Usability, Accessibility And Interoperability
- Abstract
- There can dangers that simplistic approaches to accessible Web design will
fail to take into account wider usability issues, and vice versa. Similarly there
can be dangers that addressing accessibility and usability issues can fail to
technical interoperability factors.
This workshop aims to provide a holistic approach to Web usability, accessibility
and interoperability issues. By the end of the workshop delegates will have gained
a understanding of usability, accessibility and interoperability issues and of
methodologies for developing accessible, usable and interoperable Web sites,
even for those on limited budgets. Specific areas which will be addressed
include WAI accessibility guidelines - their strengths and weaknesses; usability
testing include use of multiple browsers and configurations, structured usability testing;
and interoperability issues such as use of standards. A quality assurance framework
will be described which can help to ensure that best practices are correctly implemented.
The workshop will consist of presentations and group discussions.
Delegates will receive a workshop pack containing the workshop materials.
The workshop facilitators, Brian Kelly from UKOLN and Lawrie Phipps from TechDis,
are experienced presenters and have run many workshops on Web design, accessibility
and interoperability issues throughout the UK, Europe and further afield.
- Date And Time
- The workshop was held on Sunday, 9th October 2005 from 14:00-17:00.
- Materials
- About
Biographical Details
Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus, a post funded by
JISC and the
MLA which advises
the UK's higher and further education communities and museums, libraries and archives
sector on best practices in use of the Web. Brian is an experienced presenter,
and has spoken at all the previous Internet Librarian Conferences held in the UK.
Brian works at UKOLN, a national centre of expertise in digital information management,
which is based at the University of Bath. He was project manager for the
JISC-funded QA Focus project
and has given many
presentations
on standards and best practices for Web activities.
