UKeiG Intranets Forum: Web 2.0 and its impact on intranets

Free informal intranets forum meeting for UKeiG members to be held at:

TUC, Congress House,Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3LS

Date: Tuesday 1st April 2008 2pm to 4pm (coffee from 1.30pm)

If you are involved in intranets and would like to meet your colleagues, this informal forum is for you.

Dion Lindsay, consultant in mobilising knowledge, will present some of the findings from his research into how web 2.0 ideas can impact the design of effective intranets.

Ashlee Christoffersen, Intranet/Internet Officer, Trades Union Congress will give a presentation about the TUC intranet’s application of Google Mini.

Location:

2 minutes walk from Tottenham Court Road tube station.
Map: http://www.tuc.org.uk/the_tuc/about_contact.cfm

If you would like to attend this meeting, please contact:

Janet Corcoran, Imperial College London
Email: j.m.corcoran@imperial.ac.uk

If you are not a member of UKeiG, and would like to come along to this meeting, visit the UKeiG website: http://www.ukeig.org.uk/join/index.html for joining details.

Internet Librarian International invites UKeiG submissions

Posted on behalf of Caroline Milner:

Dear UKeiG Colleagues

We're delighted that UKeiG is to support Internet Librarian International 2008.

The conference takes place in London on 16 & 17 October 2008 and has just broadcast its call for speakers. Celebrating its 10th birthday in 2008, Internet Librarian International's theme this year is "Translating 2.0 Technologies for Tangible Benefits & Transparency".

Practical papers evaluating technologies in light of their benefits are welcomed and we seek dynamic speakers willing to share their knowledge and experience about information tools, techniques, processes and management. How do information professionals translate various 2.0 technologies so they provide real value to people in all types of information environments?

See the full Call at: http://www.internet-librarian.com

The submissions deadline is 28 March 2008 and we look forward to welcoming our global information colleagues to London again this October.

Understanding metadata and controlled vocabularies, a new UKeiG course

Venue: CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE

Date: Thursday, 3rd July 2008, 9.30-16.30

Course Outline

Nowadays information comes in from all over the place, in all shapes and sizes. Conversely, the resources we put together need to travel to multiple destinations, perhaps getting repackaged along the way to suit different audiences and contexts. Successful journeys across the networks are achieved by labelling each item and package with metadata.

This one-day workshop will provide an introduction to some widely used metadata schemas (such as Dublin Core, CDWA, e-GMS, IEEE-LOM) and discuss how to adapt and exploit them for our own needs. It will also explore the different types of vocabulary (taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies, etc.) that may be used for labelling the subject content of our resources. We'll be
looking very practically at how to handle the vocabulary tools, in order to achieve integrated information management. Examples and exercises will be drawn from public and private sector applications.

Outline programme:

• Different metadata schemas - key features and applications
• Controlled vocabularies - choosing the type of vocabulary we need
• Mapping between vocabularies
• Human indexing or automatic categorisation?
• Software for vocabulary maintenance and use
• Progress towards the Semantic Web?
• The role of social tagging/folksonomies
• Return on investment (ROI) - how do we justify the effort?
• Bringing it all together in a plan

The course will include a combination of presentations and practical exercises, with participation encouraged and plenty of opportunity for questions and answers.

Who Should Attend

Anyone who is planning efficient ways of managing information flows around the organisation should attend. Likewise webmasters who want to maximise the impact of the resources on their websites, especially by presenting them so that users can find what they want and external portals can harvest the information. Effective implementation of metadata relies on cooperative
working between information professionals and their information technology colleagues, and it is good to have both sides of the house represented.

Course Presenter

A Fellow of CILIP, Stella Dextre Clarke is an independent consultant who specialises in the design and implementation of controlled vocabularies for private and public sector clients. While working with the Cabinet Office, she played a key role in development of the UK's e-Government Metadata Standard and built the Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary which forms part of it. In 2006 she won the Tony Kent Strix Award (sponsored by UKeiG), for outstanding contributions to the field of information retrieval.

To book a place please contact Christine Baker (see below) or visit http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2008/July/UnderstandingMetadata.html

Christine Baker, UKeiG Administration, Piglet Cottage, Redmire, LEYBURN, DL8 4EH, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Tel & Fax: +44 (0)1969 625751
Email: cabaker@ukeig.org.uk

eLucidate - January/February 2008 now online

Lucidate Vol 5 No 1. February 2008, is now available online at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/members/access/elucidate/

The PDF can be downloaded from

http://www.ukeig.org.uk/members/access/elucidate/pdfs/eLucidate5-1.pdf

Please note that most of the content is available to UKeiG members only. Please contact Karen Blakeman if you have lost or forgotten your UKeiG user name and password.

Contents include:

Feature Article: Institutional Repositories,Tout de Suite from Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

Top Search Tips. Search tips from the participants of the November 2007 Beyond Google Workshop. Compiled by Karen Blakeman

Online Update from Joy Cadwallader, University of Wales, Aberystwyth (Aberystwyth Online User Group). Includes news on the Britsih Library, National Library of Wales, OCLC, Portico, ProQuest, Readex, Scottish Government, Springer and Thomson Scientific.

Intranets Sharing Intranet knowledge from Martin White, Intranet Focus

Public Sector News from Jane Inman. This month's column covers archiving government web content, and national indicators and electronic delivery of services.

UKeiG Intranets Forum Report: How to sell your Intranet. Report from Ruth Hilbourne on the meeting held on Thursday 13th December 2007 at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Meeting report: You want what? Fiona Mclean reports on Jill Fenton's workshop on effective business research process, principles and practice.

Conference Report: Online Information 2007. Melinda Davies, winner of the student conference grant, highlights the hot topics at the Online Information 2007, held at Olympia in London.

Current Awareness Summaries of articles (print and electronic) about information access and retrieval, electronic publishing, preservation and virtual libraries etc.

Book Review: The Inmates are Running the Asylum.

Press Releases & News