ukoln: relevant content on this site

UKOLN is a centre of expertise in digital information management, providing advice and services to the library, information, education and cultural heritage communities. UKOLN is based at the University of Bath and is funded by the JISC as well as project funding from JISC and the European Union. UKOLN's main work is: influencing policy and informing practice; promoting community-building and consensus making by actively raising awareness; advancing knowledge through research and development; building innovative systems and services based on Web technologies; acting as an agent for knowledge transfer. Its specialist areas include metadata and interoperability. It also publishes the Ariadne (Web magazine), targeted principally at information science professionals in academia, archives, libraries and museums. UKOLN also organises many events, including the annual Institutional Web Management Workshop. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: UKOLN)

Note: This page displays most recently updated content first. You can use the RSS link (bottom left of this page) to receive alerts as content is added or updated.

The business of unique identification

23 February 2012 - 11:58pm — Talat Chaudhri

What need is there for unique identifiers?

Put in relatively non-technical language, there is an increasing concern in information science in general to uniquely identify different things, organisations or people that could otherwise be confused, whether on the Internet or in the physical world. In technical terms, these are all referred to as resources (even if people might find it vaguely demeaning in normal language to be considered as such).

Researcher ID Task and Finish Group

20 June 2011 - 3:42pm — Talat Chaudhri

The first meeting of the Researcher Identifiers Task and Finish Group was highly successful and productive because it kept a tight focus on developing an achievable, clearly articulated body of work and developing a process and timescale for the series of meetings that will inform this process and the commissioning and delivery of the reports that the discussions will continue to inform, round until January 2012.

Practical metadata solutions using application profiles

8 June 2011 - 1:46pm — Talat Chaudhri

Until now, a number of application profiles have been developed by various metadata experts, with the support of the JISC, with the intention of addressing the needs of practitioners and service providers (and thus ultimately their users) across the higher education sector in the UK. The most significant of these have been aimed at particular resource types that have an impact across the sector.

Consuming and producing linked data in a content management system

15 September 2010 - 12:46pm — Thom Bunting

At this summer's Institutional Web Management Workshop in Sheffield (IWMW 2010), I demonstrated how it is becoming feasible for a content management system both to consume and to produce linked data resources.

Aggregation and the Resource Discovery Taskforce vision

19 August 2010 - 12:43pm — Paul Walk

On Tuesday of this week, UKOLN convened a group of invited experts to discuss aggregation in the context of the Resource Discovery Taskforce's vision. The Resource Discovery Taskforce (RDTF), a joint JISC / RLUK venture, has summed up its vision:

Technical Standards for the JISC IE (part 2)

27 April 2010 - 9:05am — Paul Walk

Which standards are relevant to the JISC IE today? The JISC IE Technical Standards document has not been updated for some years. If this sort of document is considered to be useful still, then it needs to be brought up to date. The rest of this post will consider the standards indicated in the original document and give suggestions for what might be added, changed or deprecated from this list. Comments are very welcome on this.

Technical Standards for the JISC IE (part 1)

27 April 2010 - 8:46am — Paul Walk

One of the key conclusions emerging from our ongoing consultation with some of those who have been involved with the JISC Information Environment (JISC IE) since its early days is that the emphasis on interoperability through open standards was one of the key drivers which gave the programme direction and momentum. Giving focus to this emphasis on open standards was a web document, JISC Information Environment Technical Standards, which introduced itself thus:

Provision, fusion, presentation and shared infrastructure

1 December 2009 - 10:56am — Paul Walk

Reviewing the technical foundations of the JISC Information Environment

1 December 2009 - 10:54am — Paul Walk

The JISC Information Environment (IE) is one of of JISC’s well established strategic ‘themes’. At a technical level, the IE is framed by some important documents: a ‘technical architecture’ and by a set of technical standards, both previously developed at UKOLN.

Dr. Radut