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Slides from all presentations given at the recent CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG) Conference at the University of Strathclyde are now available. This conference was jointly organised by CIG and the UKOLN Events Team.
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A paper entitled "Towards a Curation and Preservation Architecture for CAD Engineering Models" co-authored by Alexander Ball and Manjula Patel of UKOLN and Lian Ding, IdMRC, University of Bath was presented by Alex at the Fifth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES 2008), a conference which became the subject of a Guardian editorial "In Praise of..." item of September 30, 2008. Both the paper and associated slides are available.
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Brian Kelly will present an invited paper entitled "Library 2.0: Balancing the Risks and Benefits to Maximise the Dividends" at the Bridging Worlds 2008 Conference which will be held in Singapore over 16-17 October 2008.
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UKOLN is working with Collections Trust, Culture 24 and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council to provide resources and information to the museum, library and archive sector in the digital context. This new area of the UKOLN Web site provides access to a variety of resources on a range of issues of particular relevance to the cultural heritage sector, and brings together information previously distributed across the UKOLN Web site.
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Registration is now open for the 4th International Digital Curation Conference on 1-3 December 2008 in Edinburgh. This year the focus will be on radical sharing, new ways of doing science (large-scale research networks, mass collaboration, dynamic publishing tools, wikis, blogs, social networks, visualisations and immersive environments); sustainability of curation; and legal issues, including privacy, confidentiality and consent, intellectual property rights and provenance.
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The Digital Curation Centre and DigitalPreservationEurope have recently announced the release of the Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment (DRAMBORA) toolkit which is now freely available in a new updated interactive online version.
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The summer issue of Ariadne Web Magazine is now available with a wide range of articles on topics of interest to information professionals in archives, libraries and museums in all sectors. In this issue there is serious discussion of the worth of Web 2.0 technologies to current educational practice as well as articles on the uses of different data in the context of the networked library service layer and on best practice on versioning in digital repositories. There are two items for all information professionals on the case for remote working and how to deal with the information overload, and a review of options in persistent identifiers as well of a book on Vizualizing Data. And more besides. Remember...
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