Additional date for 'Understanding Metadata and Controlled Vocabularies'

Due to popular demand Understanding Metadata and Controlled Vocabularies is being re-run on 29th July

Venue: CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Date and time: Tuesday 29th July 2008, 9.30-16.30

For more information or to book a place on this course, please visit the UKeiG web site or email meetings@ukeig.org.uk

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.

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.

UKeiG intranets courses

You can find more information or book a place on these courses at on the UKeiG web site or by emailing meetings@ukeig.org.uk. Already know the subject inside-out? Maybe someone else in your organisation would benefit from the top quality training UKeiG provides.

SharePoint 2007 for Intranets and Web Sites
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Tuesday 15th July 2008, 9.30-16.30

The objective of this seminar is to outline the benefits and challenges of MOSS07 implementations so that intranet and web managers are better prepared to discuss these with colleagues in the IT department in developing a business case and implementation plan for using MOSS07.

The course will commence with a comprehensive introduction to MOSS07 which will provide an independent assessment of how to get the best out of MOSS07. This will be followed by a presentation on the search application that is included in MOSS07 and also the new Search Server 2008 Express. There will be a series of case studies of MOSS07 implementations, and the day will conclude with a Q&A Session.

Intranet Governance
CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Thursday 9th October 2008, 9.30-16.30

Most organisations have strategies and policies for just about every aspect of operations, but rarely for the intranet. Intranets have now become essential information platforms, and need to be resourced appropriately.

The objective of this workshop is to set out the key elements of an intranet governance strategy. The workshop will cover: Making a business case for an intranet; Developing an intranet strategy; Turning a strategy into an operational plan; Creating and managing the intranet team; Supporting the work of content authors; Achieving intranet impact; Developing and undertaking usability tests; Gaining user feedback.

UKeiG has the CILIP Seal of Recognition, which recognises high standards in the content and relevance of training courses. See http://www.cilip.org.uk/qualificationschartership/seal/ for details.

SharePoint 2007 for Intranets and Web Sites

Venue: CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Date: Tuesday 15th July 2008, 9.30-16.30

Course Outline

Many organisations with a strong commitment to Microsoft are moving to implement MOSS07 as a general-purpose intranet/collaboration/document management application. This is often as an upgrade to SharePoint Server 2003 but also as a new application. As a result, intranet and web managers are increasingly under some pressure from their organisation to migrate their web site or intranet to MOSS07.

The objective of this seminar is to outline the benefits and challenges of MOSS07 implementations so that intranet and web managers are better prepared to discuss these with colleagues in the IT department in developing a business case and implementation plan for using MOSS07.

The course will commence with a comprehensive introduction to MOSS07 which will provide an independent assessment of how to get the best out of MOSS07. This will be followed by a presentation on the search application that is included in MOSS07 and also the new Search Server 2008 Express. There will be a series of case studies of MOSS07 implementations, and the day will conclude with a Q&A Session.

As well as copies of the presentations delegates will be provided with a checklist of the key issues that need to be considered and resolved, and a list of resources on SharePoint implementation.

Who should attend

Intranet and web managers who are considering either upgrading web applications from SharePoint Server 2003 or migrating from their current content management applications to MOSS07. No technical knowledge of SharePoint will be required.

Course Presenters
The course will be presented by Janus Boye http://eng.jboye.dk/ the author of the CMSWatch Enterprise Portals Report and a European authority on SharePoint. The presentation on search applications will be given by Martin White, Intranet Focus Ltd.

Further details and a booking form are on the UKeiG web site.

Business Information on the Internet - repeat workshop

The UKeiG Business Information workshop being held on April 2nd is now full but is being repeated on April 8th. There are a few places still available.

Venue: Kings College London, Guy’s Campus, London Bridge, London

Date and time: Tuesday, 8th April 2008, 9.30 – 16.30

Course outline:

This one day workshop looks at key sources of business information available on the Internet. It will compare what is available for free with pay-as-you-go and subscription services, and highlight quality, coverage, functionality and price.

Topics to be covered include:

• key starting points, evaluated listings and portals
• company information, including information on SMEs
• directories and marketing resources
• news, blogs, alerts and RSS
• official statistics and market data
• key search techniques

Throughout the day, there will be practical sessions during which you can work through exercises or try out your own research. Each delegate receives a comprehensive set of notes. The workshop will benefit anyone who plans to use, or already uses, the Internet for gathering business information.

Course Presenter: Karen Blakeman

Further details and a booking form are available at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2008/April/BusinessInformationLondon20080408.html

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

Business Information on the Internet

To be held at Kings College London, Guy's Campus, London Bridge, London

Date: Wednesday, 2nd April 2008, 9.30 - 16.30

Course outline

This one day workshop looks at key sources of business information available on the Internet. It will compare what is available for free with pay-as-you-go and subscription services, and highlight quality, coverage, functionality and price.

Topics to be covered include:

• key starting points, evaluated listings and portals
• company information, including information on SMEs
• directories and marketing resources
• news, blogs, alerts and RSS
• official statistics and market data
• key search techniques

On completing this course you will

• have the key starting points at your fingertips
• have essential resources for the different types of business information
• be able to search more effectively and quickly for business information
• be able to assess when you will have to start paying for information
• have compiled your own Top 10 business resources

Course Presenter: Karen Blakeman

Karen Blakeman has worked in the information profession for over twenty years and has been a freelance consultant since 1989. Her company (RBA Information Services) provides training and consultancy on the use of the Internet, and on accessing and managing information resources. Karen writes for "Business Information Searcher.” She also publishes a monthly, electronic newsletter called "Tales from the Terminal Room.” Her publications include "Search Strategies for the Internet,” now in its sixth edition. She is a Fellow of CILIP and in 2002 she received the Information World Review Information Professional of the Year award.

Further details are available on the UKeiG website.

An Intranet Masterclass with James Robertson

Intranet Focus Ltd in association with UKeiG present:

An Intranet Masterclass with James Robertson, Step Two Designs.

Date: Friday 7 March 2008, 9.30 am – 4.30 pm
Venue: Axa Group UK, 5 Old Broad Street, London EC1

James Robertson, Managing Director, Step Two Designs, Sydney Australia, is an intranet consultant with an international reputation. He is the author of the Intranet Roadmap, Improving Intranet Search, Staff Directories and 6x2 Methodology for Intranets reports, along with 150+ articles. He has keynoted conferences throughout the world, including USA, UK, Denmark, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Australia and New Zealand

This is his first-ever Masterclass in the UK, and during the course of the day James will share the experience he has gained in corporate, public and academic intranet projects, and through the Intranet Leadership Forum that has been very successfully established by his company.

The main topics that will be covered in this Masterclass will be:

• Managing the evolution of intranets
• Intranet innovation – critical success factors
• Establishing effective collaboration
• Improving intranet search

James will also present the lessons learned by the award winners in the 2007 Intranet Innovation Awards. The Masterclass will conclude with a Q&A session in which James will be joined by Martin White, Managing Director of Intranet Focus Ltd. To ensure that all delegates have an opportunity to share ideas and issues workshop places will be limited so early registration is advisable.

The registration fee will be £250 plus VAT, to include a hot lunch, refreshments and documentation. A limited number of places have been reserved for UKeiG members at the substantial discount of £195 plus VAT.

For more information and a booking form send an email with Intranet Masterclass in the Subject line to martin.white@intranetfocus.com or call 01403 267030.

UKeiG course for 2008: Image Management

Image Management: New Directions

to be held at

The Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Thursday, 13th March, 2008, 9.30 - 16.30

Workshop Outline
In this increasingly visual age, subject librarians and information specialists are frequently required to source Images in a wide variety of formats, advise on their use and organise their retention as part of their day-to-day jobs, but often with no specialist experience or training. This workshop aims to help the non-specialist navigate successfully across this unfamiliar territory, pointing out useful shortcuts and pitfalls to avoid, and showcasing examples of good practice that can help inspire us in the use of a wide spectrum of information resources ranging from historic manuscripts to genomic databanks. Achieving holistic management of such diverse resources to allow easy correlation of their information content is challenging, especially for small information units and 'one-man-bands'. Developing technologies offer new opportunities but can themselves produce new demands in devising effective strategies for their use. This workshop is an opportunity to share experiences and float ideas in areas where there are as yet few 'right answers'!

The workshop will comprise a mix of presentations and group discussion. Topics are expected to range over:

* Locating sources: what to look for and where to look
* Digital libraries and repositories: creating and searching
* Embedded images: searching within documents
* Metadata content and ontologies: requirements for effective retrieval
* Rights issues and commercial factors
* Storage and preservation: short- and long-term issues
* Using images in teaching and learning: the role of the information specialist
* The impact of social networking tools: salvation or hype?

Who Should Attend
Anyone whose work involves the use of images will benefit from this meeting, from any sector - university, college, government, NHS, charity, learned society, commercial etc. We hope for a good mix as we all have much to learn from each other!

Presenters
A panel of speakers will be chaired by Roger Mills, Bio- and Environmental Sciences Librarian, Oxford University Library Services. Roger is currently President of EBHL (European Botanical and Horticultural Libraries) and co-ordinator of IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organisations) Unit 6.03.00 Information Services and Knowledge Organisation. He is co-author of The New Walford: Volume 1: Science Technology and Medicine, Facet, 2005, as subject specialist for Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries and Food.

The panel will include:
Dr David Shotton, Oxford e-Research Centre and Dept of Zoology, University of OxfordMichael Popham, Head of the Oxford Digital Library, Oxford University Library Services

Further details of the speakers and programme will be announced on http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/ as available.

UKeiG is a Special Interest Group of CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and InformationProfessionals. 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE. Registered Charity No. 313014.

UKeiG training courses recognised by CILIP

UKeiG is pleased to announce that it has been approved by the CILIP Accreditation Board for the award of the CILIP Seal of Recognition in acknowledgement of the range of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities that are relevant for the Library and Information Science Community.

UKeiG offers a wide range of training courses which are held throughout the UK. For further details contact:

Christine Baker, Piglet Cottage, Redmire, LEYBURN, North Yorkshire DL8 4EH. Tel & Fax: 01969 625751 Email: CABaker@ukeig.org.uk

New course available from UKeiG - Information Law

Information Law for Information Professionals: What you NEED to know about Copyright, Data Protection, Freedom of Information and Accessibility and Disability Discrimination Laws

To be held at: CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Date: Tuesday, 19th February 2008, 9.30-16.30

Course Outline

In particular, four key legal areas currently affect the work of many information professionals in the digital environment - copyright, data protection, freedom of information, and disability discrimination and accessibility. This one-day introductory course will chart a path through the complexities of these subjects. Each area will be succinctly overviewed and the key aspects of the legal regime and requirements in each area will be outlined and explained. Delegates will be taken step-by-step through the fundamentals of each area. An understanding of each topic will be illuminated by real-life examples or scenarios explaining the application of the laws in a wide range of contexts. The day will also highlight the inter-relationships between each of these important areas of information law. There will be opportunities for discussion and exchanges of experience. The day will close with a presentation on how to manage actively legal compliance in these areas in an institutional or organisational context.

The sessions will include:

• Copyright: everything the information professional needs to know
• Copyright in action: scenarios and key issues in copyright in an electronic context
• Data protection: overview of the data protection regime for information professionals
• Data protection in action: specific issues in information, publishing and library contexts
• Freedom of information: outline of UK freedom of information laws (including Scotland)
• Freedom of information in action: compliance and making it work for information professionals
• Accessibility and disability discrimination law: overview of the legal regime
• Accessibility in action: key issues in provision of digital information and services to users
• Managing compliance with information laws in your organisation

Within each area a wide range of topics/problems will be used to shed light on the problems faced by information professionals, or how the laws can be used by them in appropriate contexts.

The course will be led by presentations but will include real-life problems and scenarios for discussion, and plenty of opportunity for questions and answers.

Who Should Attend

The course is relevant to anyone involved with the legal issues relating to the creation, storage, accessing, publishing or use of information. Anyone working with information, especially digital information, or who needs a sound grasp of the foundations of each of these areas will benefit from the Course. Those with responsibility for managing one or more of these areas in their organisation and who need a sound grounding in each of them will also benefit.

Course Presenter

Laurence Bebbington is Law Librarian and Information Services Copyright Officer at the University of Nottingham. He is a former Vice Chair of UKOLUG. He has presented papers or taken seminars on various aspects of legal issues in information work. He has published various articles and papers and is a joint editor (with C.J. Armstrong) and contributor to the 2nd edition of Staying Legal: A Guide To Issues And Practice Affecting the Library, Information and Publishing Sectors, FACET (2003).

Places still available! Effective business research processes, principles and practices

You Want What? Effective business research processes, principles and practices

A UKeiG Course, to be held at CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Wednesday, 7th November, 2007, 9.45 - 16.30

Workshop Outline
Is there ever a method to the madness of researching business information? Could the implementation of a basic research process help with your technique? This one day course will help new and developing information professionals answer these questions, discuss business research skills and techniques, and work through practical case study examples.

Sessions will include:
* The business information professional - roles and skills
* Effective business research process techniques
* Opportunities to add value: is the data enough?

Practical project/case examples will be conducted covering such areas as:
* Negotiating with difficult people and dealing with changing circumstances
* What happens if it all goes wrong
* Time planning
* Source planning
* Searching tools and techniques
* Adding value to the basic request
* Current awareness
* Relationship management

By the end of the course delegates will have learnt:
* Roles and skills for the information professional
* What is business research? There's more to it than just searching databases
* Steps and techniques in the business research process

Course Presenter
Jill Fenton is the Founder and a Director of Fenton Research Ltd, a London-based research company providing high quality, tailored research and advice to help clients achieve their business goals. Jill has over 10 years of professional business research experience. Her career includes research management and analyst positions at Deloitte & Touche LLP, Boston Consulting Group and Mercer Oliver Wyman. She also holds an Honours Degree in Information Management from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. Jill is a committee member of the City Information Group and a member of the Association of Independent Information Professionals. She has had several research related articles published and presented seminars at Online Information 2006.

For full details and to book your place please visit our website