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UKeiG Pageflakes content has moved to Netvibes

noreply@blogger.com (UKeiG) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000

Because of the inflexible, inappropriate and intrusive advertising imposed on Pageflakes users, UKeiG has moved the content of its Pageflakes start page to Netvibes at http://www.netvibes.com/ukeig1

The lack of advance notice of this significant change, together with recent technical problems and repeated down time means that we can no longer depend on Pageflakes to provide a reliable service. UKeiG appreciates the need for financial support for services such as this, but Pageflakes has not offered any alternatives to its users such as an annual subscription.

UKeiG Workshop: Searching the Internet - Google and beyond

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:15:00 +0000

Venue: The John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester
Date: Wednesday, 1st April 2009, 9.30 - 16.30

Some comments from delegates attending this meeting in 2008:
"Fascinating insight into the world beyond Google " "One of the best workshops I've ever attended".. "A revelation! - enjoyed every minute"

Course Outline

With the major search engines claiming coverage of over 20 billion web pages in their databases, it is becoming increasingly difficult to locate relevant information. Most of us head straight for Google when we want to search the Internet but Google is not the only search tool. This workshop looks at recent developments at Google and the alternatives, especially the new kids on the block and Web 2.0 'stuff'. Karen Blakeman will take you through the best of the search engine world and highlight how they can be used to significantly improve your results. By the end of the day, participants will have a vital toolkit to help them search more effectively, including key search tools, comparisons, top tips and essential search techniques.

Topics to be covered include:

different types of search tools and how they work
making the most of Google and new features
alternatives to Google
advanced search techniques to help you track down the so-called "hidden web"
image, audio, video and news
blogs, RSS, wikis and Web 2.0 resources
setting up your customised search engine
tracking down pages that have disappeared

Delegates will have ample opportunity to test out advanced search techniques and to compare different search engines. A significant part of the day will be taken up with practical sessions; exercises will be provided but delegates are free to try out searches of their own. This workshop is suitable for all levels of experience. The techniques and approaches covered can be applied to all subject areas.

N.B. Places on this course are strictly limited because of access to PCs so please book early to avoid disappointment

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". She is a Fellow of CILIP and in 2002 received the Information World Review Information Professional of the Year award.

Costs (including lunch and refreshments):

UKeiG members £160 + VAT (£188.00); others £190 + VAT (£223.25)

Further information and a booking form are at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2009/April/GoogleandBeyondManchester200904.html

UKeiG Workshop: Web 2.0 in real life

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:10:00 +0000

Venue: The Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool, 1 Brownlow Street, Liverpool
Date: Tuesday, 21st April 2009, 09.30 - 16.30

Course Outline

Find out how 2.0 applications are being used in libraries and information centres, and what actually works. Blogs, wikis, RSS? YouTube, podcasts, Slideshare? Flickr, Connotea, LibraryThing? Facebook, Second Life, Twitter? This workshop will look at the reality of 2.0: what is useful and what is destined for Gartner's 'Trough of Disillusionment', never to be seen again.

The workshop will start with a brief overview of Web 2.0 and what it means. It will then look in more detail at how 'stuff' can be used as sources of information, as a means of enhancing services to users, and raising the profile of information services. The areas covered will include:

Blogs, wikis, RSS feeds
Shared authoring tools
Start pages e.g. iGoogle, PageFlakes, NetVibes
Social bookmarking services
Using YouTube and Flickr as information resources and to promote your group or organisation
Presentation" sites such as Slideshare and Authorstream
Social networking sites e.g. Facebook
To Twitter or not to Twitter

There will be a heavy practical element to the workshop so that participants can explore Web 2 and try out the technologies for themselves. There will be extensive notes and exercise sheets to guide participants through the day, and all the information and presentations will be available electronically.

N.B. Places on this course are strictly limited because of access to PCs so please book early to avoid disappointment

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". She was recently made an Honorary Fellow of CILIP and in 2002 she received the Information World Review Information Professional of the Year award

Costs (including lunch and refreshments):

UKeiG members £160 + VAT (£188.00); others £190 + VAT (£223.25)

Further details and a booking form are at: http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2009/April/Web2InRealLife.html

Innovation in e-Information - UKeiG Conference 2009 Update

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:35:00 +0000

Updated information, programme and booking form for the 2009 conference are now available on UKeiG web site at at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/conf2009

Now Available - eLucidate Vol 5 No 5, October 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:12:00 +0000

The latest edition of eLucidate is now available on the UKeiG web site.

Contents include:

Feature Article: Intute Integration Update
An overview of Intute's Integration project, which is developing ways of integrating content into users' websites and VLEs [Members only]

UKeiG @Online Information 2008
Conference, free seminars & masterclasses, and exhibition at Online 2008.

Web 2.0 Round-up
A regular column summarising postings and news from the UKeiG Web 2.0 blog at http://ukeig.wordpress.com/

Online
This month's column from Joy Cadwallader covers ABC-CLIO, Cambridge University, Hakia, JISC, Springer, Thomson Reuters, University of Michigan [Members only]

Intranets
Martin White reports on the KM World Intranets Enterprise Search Summit West 2008, San Jose California, 23-25 September [Members only]

Reference Management and e-Publishing
Tracy Kent looks at new social bookmarking sites, Twidox, Mandeley, Reference Manager 12, Endnote2 for the Mac and 'Is your social bookmarking package legal?" [Members only]

Public Sector News
Jane Inman reports on What's New on Public Sector Information. [Members only]

Meeting Report: UKeiG Intranets Forum Drop-In Session.
Danielle Worster reports on the September informal get-together of the the UKeiG Intranets Forum.

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

Innovation in e-Information - the UKeiG 2009 conference
Manchester Conference Centre. Tuesday 16th June - Wednesday 17th June 2009.

Press Releases & News

Essential Copyright for Information Professionals

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:41:00 +0000

What You Need to Know - and Preparing for Change!

Further information at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2009/March/EssentialCopyright2009-03-17.html

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

Date: Tuesday, 17th March 2009, 9.30-16.15

Course Outline

Copyright remains one of the most challenging legal issues for information professionals in all areas of the information industries. This one-day introductory course will chart a path through the complexity of the subject. It will cover all essential aspects of copyright and associated rights. Delegates will be taken step-by-step through the fundamentals of copyright. Woven into the sessions will be the latest information on forthcoming changes to UK law on copyright and how you need to understand and prepare for them now. Understanding of each topic will be illuminated by real-life examples of copyright issues. Examples will be drawn from a wide range of contexts.

The sessions will include:

Copyright - what is it, how does it arise and how long does it last?
Ownership of copyright
Categories of copyright works
The rights of the copyright owner
Permitted acts and exceptions to copyright
Database right
Moral rights
Licensing schemes for education, commercial and business organisations
Overview of copyright in the digital environment
The Gowers Review - Planning for Change: a special, dedicated session on how the likely reforms to UK law currently under implementation from the Gowers Review will affect you, and how will you benefit. What do you need to be doing now?

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

Copyright is relevant to anyone involved in 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 copyright will therefore benefit from the Course.

Course Presenter

Laurence Bebbington is Faculty Team Leader (Social Sciences, Law and Education) and Information Services Copyright Officer at the University of Nottingham. He has presented papers and led 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).

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

Launch of the World’s First Intranet Media Channel

noreply@blogger.com (UKeiG) — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:48:00 +0000

Free Guest Passes for the Launch Programme

The Intranet Benchmarking Forum (IBF at www.ibforum.com), an exclusive, confidential intranet and portal benchmarking group of leading European, US and global organisations, is launching the world’s first dedicated intranet media channel, Intranets Live (www.intranetslive.com) on 4th November 2008.

“Intranets Live has been created following the run-away success of IBF 24, the 24-hour online intranet innovation that took place in June" said Paul Miller, chairman of the IBF. “That day proved to be the world’s largest corporate gathering on the web with more than 700 intranet professionals from 25 countries participating. Not only did we receive universal support and appreciation for IBF 24, but we also found that many of the participants were very keen to see more regular events of this nature. So, in order to meet this demand, we’ve created the world’s first intranet media channel where participants can join the world’s global intranet community live every month.”

Intranets Live, which even before its launch has already attracted more than 300 annual subscribers from some of the world’s leading private and public sector organisations, goes live for the first time at 3pm GMT on November 4th 2008. It will run for two hours and will then broadcast at the same time on the first Tuesday of every subsequent month.

Intranets Live participants will be able to see and experience the best intranets, hear from leading industry figures and network with their peers worldwide. Because Intranets Live is delivered via Microsoft Live Meeting 2007, participants can watch and listen to great content and feed in their own comments and questions live - without even leaving their desk!

Free Guest Passes

Free guest passes are available for the launch programme on November 4th, which will be co-hosted by the IBF’s Paul Miller and Jagesh Dattani of PricewaterhouseCoopers and highlights will include:

A live intranet tour by Kellogg's followed by a phone-in Q&A Studio guest Shiv Singh from Avenue A Razorfish in New York
The Intranet Doctor: He’s there to heal your intranet pain!
A day in the life of intranet manager (Catherine Murphy, Capital One)
The TechWatch interview with David Sacks from Yammer will look at ‘how to get business value from Twitter’

The IBF is the world’s leading intranet and portal benchmarking group and is acknowledged to have established industry standards for intranet and portal performance. It has more than 70 annual members globally (all household names) including the BBC, BT, Citi, HSBC, ExxonMobil, JP Morgan Chase, Kellogg's, Orange, PWC, Unilever and Bank of England. The IBF has offices in London, New York, Zurich and Sydney and recently hosted IBF 24 – 24 hours of intranet innovation online – with 700 delegates joining globally. This was the largest ever corporate gathering on the web.

For further information please contact:

Fraser Butters at Pervasive PR on +44 (0)7766 566396 or
fraser@pervasivepr.com

Or

Paul Miller at the IBF on +44 (0) 20 7435 6606 or +44 (0)7785 255883 or
paul@ibforum.com at www.ibforum.com

Intranets Forum: Knowledge Management at the Environment Agency

noreply@blogger.com (UKeiG) — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:33:00 +0000

Free informal Intranets Forum meeting for UKeiG members to be held at:

Environment Agency
Rio House
Waterside Drive
Aztec West
Almondsbury
Bristol
BS32 4UD

Friday 12th December 2008 2.30 – 4.30 p.m.

There will be two presentations:

Making Easinet easier: making the Environment Agency's intranet work for our staff - Laura Sambrook, Interactive Content Manager

New initiatives in knowledge management in the Environment Agency - Liane
Bradbrook, Senior Systems Advisor

Tea and mince pies will be provided!

Location
Maps and travel instructions are available as a PDF. If a number of attendees can arrive at Bristol Parkway station together, collection by taxi can be arranged; when booking please indicate whether you would like this service. Please note that Rio House operates a very restricted parking system, so we can only provide spaces for disabled delegates.

Bookings
If you would like to attend this meeting, please contact: Janet Corcoran, Imperial College London j.m.corcoran@imperial.ac.uk

Further details of the meeting are in the UKeiG members' area of the web site.

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.

Don't forget the UKeiG Conference 2009 - a residential forum that provides opportunities for information and IT professionals to network, wine and dine in excellent social surroundings while catching up on the very latest developments in e-information.

'Innovations in e-information - the UKeiG 2009 Conference' will be held at the Manchester Conference Centre from Tuesday 16th - Wednesday 17th June 2009 - put it in your diary now!

Reminder: UKeiG - election to management committee

noreply@blogger.com (UKeiG) — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:09:00 +0000

A reminder that if you wish to be nominated for election to the 2009 UKeiG management committee we must receive your nomination form by Friday 31st October, 2008.

Further details and a nomination form are on the UKeiG web site at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/about/MCNominations2009.html

Forms should be sent to:

Karen Blakeman, Honorary Secretary UKeiG,
88 Star Road
Caversham
Berkshire
RG4 5BE

mailto:karen.blakeman@rba.co.uk
Telephone: 0118 947 2256
Fax: 020 8020 0253
Mobile: 07764 936733

Reminder: UKeiG Management Committee - Call for Nominations

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:23:00 +0000

A reminder that nominations are invited for election to the UKeiG Management Committee for 2009. If you want to help shape the future of UKeiG, do stand for election to the committee. If you are not quite sure about what is involved, get in touch with me, Karen Blakeman at karen.blakeman@rba.co.uk.

You do not have to be a member of the committee to contribute to UKeiG. If you have an idea or a project in mind, or have suggestions for meetings or workshops that you think would benefit UKeiG members, do contact us. The current management committee are listed at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/contact/index.html

Details and a nomination form for the committee can be found at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/about/MCNominations2009.html

Closing date for nominations is Friday, 31st October 2008.

ILI pre-conference workshops

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:38:00 +0000

Date: Wednesday, 15th October 2008
Venue: Novotel, London West, London, UK
Internet Librarian International 2008

Ulla de Stricker: Making the Business Case
The inherent and continuing challenge for information professionals is how to demonstrate your contribution to your organisation’s bottom line. Ulla de Stricker shows you how to make the best business case for your department.

Marydee Ojala & Ran Hock: WebSearch Update
Your knowledge of alternative search engines and your search skills are what set you apart from other searchers in your organisation. Learn the latest tricks, techniques and developments in web search from Ran Hock and Marydee Ojala

Jose Castillo: Planning, Building and Launching a Podcast
A hands-on experience of planning, building and launching a podcast with Jose Castillo. Learn how to use podcasting tools and create a real podcast during the workshop.

Michael Casey & Michael Stephens. Transparency, Planning & Change:See-Through Libraries
Michael Stephens and Michael Casey talk you through library transparency, planning and change. What emerging trends are set to change your information service? Make your library more transparent and change-responsive with this valuable road map leading to the hyperlinked Library.

Ann Chapman & Marieke Guy: Using Blogs Effectively Within Your Library
The potential benefits of blogging in a library context have been widely discussed. UKOLN’s Marieke Guy and Ann Chapman help you overcome barriers to establishing a blog, guiding you through setting up and using a blog and measuring its success.

Marshall Breeding. Open Source Integrated Library System: A Reality Check
Vanderbilt University's Marshall Breeding presents open source ILS options and sets out the questions you should ask and the expectations you should have when making decisions between open source and traditionally licensed automation systems.

The full programme is at http://www.internet-librarian.com/2008/day.php?day=Wednesday and registration at https://secure.infotoday.com/ILI/register.asp

Review of Intranets Forum Drop-in Session

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:05:00 +0000

For those of you who were unable to attend UKeiG's Intranets Forum drop-in session yesterday (25th September), Danielle (the) health informaticist has blogged a review of the event.

Intranet Governance course from UKeiG

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:16:00 +0000

UKeiG is running an Intranet Governance course at CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE on Thursday 9th October 2008, 9.30-16.30. The course will be given by Martin White, Intranet Focus Ltd. who has a wide experience of intranet strategy issues based on over 50 intranet projects carried out in the UK, Europe, the USA and the Middle East.

Course outline
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

As well as copies of the presentations delegates will be provided with a template for an intranet governance strategy. The workshop will include some group work and good opportunities to share ideas and experiences.

For more information or to book a place on this course, please visit http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2008/October/IntranetGovernance.html or email meetings@ukeig.org.uk for a booking form.

Internet Librarian International - discounted rate available until 26th September

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:47:00 +0000

Internet Librarian International is extending the 'early bird' discount for conference bookings to Friday 26 September.

Glancing through the programme we note that UKeiG members make up a substantial proportion of the speakers!

This year's conference (London, 16 & 17 October) includes:

Library 2.0 and Web 2.0
Forget the hype - how do they work and how will they affect how you provide information?

Search analytics
Do you know how effective your projects are and whether you’re reaching the right audience?

Information search and discovery
The search world continues to evolve - are you keeping up? What do the changes mean bring for your job?

Transparency
Why are some institutions more prone to adopting transparency and collaboration than others?

Web design
You understand the principles of usability, learn how web design continues to evolve

For full details of the event and to register visit the website at http://www.internet-librarian.com

Internet Librarian International 2008 - Early Bird Registration Ends 24 September

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:03:00 +0000

Internet Librarian International 2008: Translating 2.0 Technologies for Tangible Benefits & Transparency
Dates: 16-17 October 2008 (Preconference Workshops: 15 October) .
Venue: Novotel London West, London, UK

Early Bird Registration for this conference ends on 24th September. UKeiG are supporters of the event and Hon Sec Karen Blakeman will be giving a presentation on tips for more effective searching of the web and new technologies.

As a workplace tool the internet has become embedded in our professional lives. Whatever type of library, the challenge is to evaluate technologies in the light of their benefits to our business environments. Now in its 10th year, Internet Librarian International continues to place emphasis on the practical rather than the theoretical.

Topics for 2008 include:

Library 2.0 and Web 2.0: learn how these technologies work in reality - not just theory - and how they affect your library
Search analytics: without measurement, do you know how effective your projects are and whether you're reaching the right audience?
Information search and discovery: the search world continues to evolve - get a grip on what these changes mean to you and your organisation
Transparency: much of 2.0 revolves around collaboration and transparency, so why are some institutions more prone to adopting transparency than others?
Web design: moving beyond the accepted principles of usability, learn how web design continues to evolve

Plus the usual wide range of social and networking activities, keynotes, pre-conference workshops, sponsor showcase, and a chance to catch up with colleagues from 30 countries.

The full conference programme and booking form are at http://www.internet-librarian.com/.

eLucidate Vol 5 No 4 now available

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:38:00 +0000

The latest issue of UKeiG's eLucidate is now available on the UKeiG website.

Contents include:

Top Search Tips from the Google and Beyond workshop held in Liverpool earlier this year. [Members only]

Web 2.0 Round-up. Karen Blakeman. A regular column summarising postings and news from the UKeiG Web 2.0 blog at http://ukeig.wordpress.com/ [Members only]

News of UKeiG at Internet Librarian International and Online Information 2008

Online. This month's column from Joy Cadwallader covers Duke University, Guardian News and Media, Ingram Digital Group, JISC, Microform Academic Publishers, NetLibrary, OUP, ProQuest, Thomson Reuters [Members only]

Intranets. Martin White on the importance of having an Intranet Strategy, especially when it comes to implementing new technologies such as SharePoint 2007. "There is no better time than now for intranet managers to step up a gear and take responsibility for shaping an overall information management strategy for their organisation, whether by stealth or frontal attack." [Members only]

Reference Management and e-Publishing. Tracy Kent looks at useful publishing repositories, Microsoft's decision to axe Academic Search and Book Search, and 'Is open access free and legal? Also some thoughts on Endnote X2 and ThoughtMesh. [Members only]

Public Sector News. Jane Inman covers Keeping within the Law, re-use of public sector information, 'They work you', and the cost of the new UK parliamentary web site. [Members only]

Meeting Report: SharePoint 2007 for Intranets and Websites. Report by Shaida Dorabjee, Information Consultant.

Meeting Report: UKeiG Annual Seminar - Web 2.0 in action. Report by Joanne Dobson, Programmes Director, Corporate Partnership Unit, Coventry University j.dobson@coventry.ac.uk)

Meeting Report: Agenda for Information Retrieval ISKO UK Meeting 26 June 2008, University College, London. Report by Michael Upshall

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

Innovation in e-Information - the UKeiG 2009 Conference. Manchester Conference Centre. Tuesday 16th June - Wednesday 17th June 2009.

Press Releases & News: COUNTER New Schedule for Publication of Release 3; Onix for Serials Released; Keeping Within the Law.

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Please contact Karen.Blakeman@rba.co.uk if you have lost or forgotten your user name and password.

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Please contact Karen.Blakeman@rba.co.uk if you are a corporate member of UKeiG and require access to eLucidate by IP recognition.

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Please use the subscription form at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/members/access/elucidate/pdfsubscribe.html if you would like to receive a PDF copy of eLucidate by email.

2009 UKeiG Management Committee - Election of Members

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:23:00 +0000

Yes, it's that time of year again - UKeiG management committee elections! Nominations are invited for election to the UKeiG Management Committee for 2009. If you want to help shape the future of UKeiG, do stand for election to the committee. If you are not quite sure about what is involved, get in touch with me, Karen Blakeman at karen.blakeman@rba.co.uk.

You do not have to be a member of the committee to contribute to UKeiG. If you have an idea or a project in mind, or have suggestions for meetings or workshops that you think would benefit UKeiG members, do contact us. The current management committee are listed at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/contact/index.htm l

Details and a nomination form for the committee can be found at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/about/MCNominations2009.html

The UKeiG xWiki is about to close

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:48:00 +0000

The UKeiG xWiki at http://ukeig.xwiki.com/ will be closed down on Monday 28th July. The UKeiG xWiki was always an experiment and we chose xWiki because of the software's flexibility, power and sophistication. It was an interesting experiment and in the initial stages highlighted the importance of controlling access rights at all levels! We succeeded in blocking spam on the main pages but have still not mastered the art of stopping spammers clogging up the user profiles pages :-(

UKeiG is now researching options for a Content Management System for its main web site and our 'spec' includes wiki and blog capability. Our main blog will remain for the time being at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/blog/ and powered by Blogger, and our Wordpress Web 2.0 blog will stay at http://ukeig.wordpress.com/. If you want to download copies of the wiki pages now is the time to do it. We do, though, have a local backup of the content so let Karen Blakeman (karen.blakeman@rba.co.uk) know if you desperately need access to anything.

Digital Lives: New Research Project to Explore the Nation's Digital Memories

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:12:00 +0000

New research project to explore the nation's digital memories.
'Digital Lives' sets to understand how we use computers in our daily lives to capture personal moments and memories
Led by the British Library with University College London and Bristol University

All creators and users of digital information invited to fill in an online survey.

From diaries, letters, jottings and photo albums to blogging, emailing, tweeting and flickr-ing, the digital revolution has affected enormously the ways in which we record our personal lives. These largely born-digital collections will become invaluable in years to come for researchers - from biographers and historians to literary critics and scientists. Currently nobody knows for sure what is happening to this material and whether it can be made available in the future. 'Digital Lives' aims to begin to answer these questions.

Dr Jeremy Leighton John, the British Library's Curator of e-Manuscripts and the Principal Investigator of 'Digital Lives', says: "More and more people are creating, acquiring and holding digital information on their desktops, laptops and hand-held devices. We need to begin to understand the way people capture, maintain and share digital information, the legal and ethical environment in which they do so, including perceptions and realities of ownership, and the impact of new technologies on recording our lives."

The team is now looking for help from anyone who uses computers in their daily lives. There are two ways in which people can participate and help the 'Digital Lives' project:

By completing an online survey at http://www.bl.uk/digitallivessurvey.html The survey looks at the way people currently use their computers to capture their digital lives
By sending in details of technologies and online services relevant for capturing, retaining and sharing digital information to digital.lives@bl.uk

As the custodian of the nation's collective memory the British Library has an interest in enabling future access to digital archives and personal collections created by individuals in the 21st century. The project team has already interviewed a number of individuals such as the
politician Tony Benn, molecular biologist Richard Henderson, playwright, actor and comedian Patrick Marber, digital storyteller and photographer Daniel Meadows, architects M. J. Long and Rolfe Kentish, and geophysicist Martin Siegert.

For further information about 'Digital Lives' please visit
http://www.bl.uk/digitallivessurvey.html or contact Suvi Kankainen in the British Library's Press Office suvi.kankainen@bl.uk

Engaging with the environment: finding quality eInformation resources

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:49:00 +0000

Venue: CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Date: Wednesday 5th November 2008, 9.30-16.30

Course outline

The environment is big news – almost every day there is a story about climate change, waste, a pollution incident or disappearing species. The environment is an emotive issue, and there are many opinions expressed. Where do the facts come from? This workshop will provide you with a starting point – to find authoritative sources of environmental information, help you keep up to date with what’s new and help you work your way through the diverse issues and impacts. It will help sort the wood from the trees!

The objectives of the workshop are to introduce delegates to some of the vast number of sources for environmental information.

The workshop will cover:

Government departments and committees
Influential groups and bodies
News sources
Research

This course is aimed at people who need a starting point for finding environmental information. It will also help people who need to be aware of alternative sources for this information.

Please visit www.ukeig.org.uk for more information, to register your interest in this meeting or to reserve a place; or email meetings@ukeig.org.uk

UKeiG Workshop: Intranet Governance

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:28:00 +0000

Venue: CILIP, 7 Ridgmount Street, London, WC1E 7AE
Date: Thursday 9th October 2008, 9.30-16.30

Course outline

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

As well as copies of the presentations delegates will be provided with a template for an intranet governance strategy. The workshop will include some group work and good opportunities to share ideas and experiences.

Who should attend

Intranet managers who recognise that they need to develop business cases for investment in intranet staff and other resources, or who need to write corporate policy documents for intranet operations.

Course Presenter

The course will be given by Martin White, Intranet Focus Ltd. who has a wide experience of intranet strategy issues based on over 50 intranet projects carried out in the UK, Europe, the USA and the Middle East.

For more information or to book a place on this course, please visit http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/2008/October/IntranetGovernance.html or email meetings@ukeig.org.uk

eLucidate Vol 5 No 3 now available

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:34:00 +0000

eLucidate Vol. 5 No. 3 is now available at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/elucidate/
Please note: most of the content is available to UKeiG members only

Contents:

Web 2.0 Round-up. Compiled by Karen Blakeman. A regular column summarising postings and news from the UKeiG Web 2.0 blog at http://ukeig.wordpress.com/

Online. This month's column from Joy Cadwallader covers the British Library, Darwin Online, Emerald, Gale, H.W. Wilson, Index to Theses, INTUTE, JISC, JORUM, OCLC, Old Bailey Online, ProQuest and Publishing Technology.

Intranets. Martin White reports on Intracom 2008 in Quebec.

Reference Management and e-Publishing. Tracy Kent looks at what is happening in the reference software world and avoiding plagiarism

Public Sector News. Jane Inman discusses web continuity and local authority web site archiving.

24 Top Business Research Tips from the two UKeiG workshops on business information.

Meeting Report: Practicalities of Web 2.0. Report by Fiona McLean

Meeting Report: Blogs, RSS and Wikis. Report by Matthew Stone.

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

Press Releases & News: Update on OCLC and Google; Microsoft Book Search winding down; library use of e-books; Sparc and Science Commons; Jewell receives Coutts Award for innovation.

Intranets Forum: dates for you diary

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Top Search Tips, London June 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Karen Blakeman) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:18:00 +0000

I ran another advanced search workshop (Google and Beyond) for UKeiG on June 11th, this time in London. Twenty people attended the event and came up with the following list of top search tips at the end of the day.

1. Use the Advanced Search screen. There are lots of goodies to be found on the advanced search screens: options for focussing your search by file format (e.g. xls for data and statistics, ppt for expert presentations, pdf for industry or government reports); site and domain search to limit your search to just one web site or a type of organisation (e.g. UK government, US academic); and in Google there is a numeric range search.

2. Google Custom Search Engines (Google CSE) at http://www.google.com/coop/cse/. This made its first appearance in the Top Tips from the Liverpool workshop earlier this year. Ideal for building collections of sites that you regularly search, to create a searchable subject list, or to offer your users a more focused search option.

3. See what Google does with your search string.

a) If you use the default search box and Google comes back with odd results, click on Advanced Search to see what it has done with your search terms.

b) If you use the Advanced Search screen and fill in the boxes, see how Google formats the search strategy by looking the search box at the top of the results page. By learning the commands and prefixes you can build more specific searches more quickly on the default search page.

4. Cached copies. Look at the search engines cached copy of a web page if you can’t find your search terms in the document or if the page is nothing like the description in the results list. You will see the version of the page that has been used by the search engine for indexing and with your terms highlighted.

5. Use tools such as Intelways and Zuula for quick and easy access to a wide range of search tools covering different types of information. Enter your search once, click on the tab for the type of resource for which you are searching (video, images, reference, news etc.), and then work your way through the list of search engines.

6. Alacrawiki. The Alacra Spotlights section is a good starting point for evaluated sites and information on industry sectors. It is also a good example of what to look for when assessing the quality of a wiki and how easy it is for anyone to edit the pages. In the Spotlights sections there is no edit option , not even if you register for an account and login. Only the Alacra editors can edit the pages.

7. Open access journals. Google Scholar sometimes leads you to copies of journal articles in institutional repositories and open access journals, but there are also directories of open access journals. For example: http://www.doaj.org/ , http://www.wsis-si.org/oa-journals.html, http://www.abc.chemistry.bsu.by/current/fulltext.htm . This is not my area of expertise so comments on other directories are welcome.

8. Social bookmarking sites. Try social bookmarking sites, not only for creating your evaluated lists of sites but for searching other peoples. For example FURL, Del.icio.us, Connotea, 2Collab . Connotea (owned by the Nature Publishing Group) and 2Collab (owned by Elsevier) are aimed at researchers and scientists.

9. Search results visualisation. Try out some of the newer search tools that present results and search options in a different way. For example Cluuz, Kartoo, Kvisu, Quintura. [Some of the participants specifically mentioned Cluuz and Kvisu].

10. The Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) at http://www.archive.org/ for pages, sites and documents that have disappeared. Ideal for tracking down lost documents, seeing how organisations presented themselves on the Web in the past, and for collecting evidence for a legal case (e.g. ‘passing off’, copyright infringement).

UKeiG Intranets Forum: Web 2.0 at the British Library and theTUC's application of Google Mini

noreply@blogger.com (UKeiG) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:20:00 +0000

An informal intranets forum meeting for UKeiG members

Date: Wednesday 25th June 2008 at 10.00 a.m.

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

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

Caroline Halcrow of the British Library will talk about the development of internal and external communications at the BL, including their use of SharePoint, blogs, wikis, RSS feeds and Facebook.

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

Pastries and coffee will be provided and the meeting will end at 12.00

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.

ISKOUK - Sharing Vocabularies on the Web via SKOS

noreply@blogger.com (UKeiG) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:31:00 +0000

Posted on behalf of ISKOUK:

Date: 21 July 2008 from 14:00 - 19:00 (registration starts at 13:30)
Venue: University College London, Engineering Faculty, Roberts Building G06, Sir Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre
Cost: 20 GBP (students and ISKO members free!)

We would like to invite you to a half-day event organized by the British Chapter of International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO UK) entitled "Sharing Vocabularies on the Web via Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)" in London

Predictions for the Semantic Web are heavily dependent on the ability of computers to reason and communicate using controlled vocabularies. SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) development aims to bring forward these capabilities.

Aware of the growing importance of SKOS, ISKO UK in cooperation with School of Library, Archives and Information Studies at UCL has invited a group of experts to introduce this standard, explain its status, potential and scope. Speakers on this event - Alistair Miles, Antoine Isaac, Stella Dextre Clarke, Leonard Will, Nicolas Cochard, Ceri Binding and Douglas Tudhope - are involved in the development and application of SKOS and related standards and are hoping to provoke some interesting discussion.

This event, the third in ISKO UK's KOnnecting KOmmunities series, promises a fascinating glimpse of the future of controlled vocabularies. No one involved or interested in the development, management or implementation of controlled vocabularies can afford to miss it.

For full details on the venue, programme and to book your place at the event visit http://www.iskouk.org/SKOS_July2008.htm.