Incidental to Brian's comment's below and the question "Time for a
different approach?" [to recording details about conferences] people may be
interested in the IUGO project:
<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=vre_iugo&src=alpha>
To quote
"This project aims to develop a proof of concept system to enable the
integration of web-based content (and references to non web-based content),
related to individual conferences and individual sessions within
conferences, thus providing a means to provide far great benefit to the
wider research community than is currently available from conference
attendance."
Anyone interested in finding out more should probably contact the project
manager Kate Sharp (cc'ed above)
Best wishes
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Pete Walker, Internet Development Manager
Institute for Learning and Research Technology (ILRT)
University of Bristol
8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1HH
Web: www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk
Tel: 0117 928 7192
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--On 12 July 2005 18:12 +0100 Brian Kelly <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Anyone know of any good single resource that lists
>> conferences, workshops and events etc. that UK HE and FE web
>> folk might find useful to attend? At the moment I'm relying
>> on jiscmail lists and word of mouth. I was thinking along
>> the lines of what the Archives Hub provide for Archivists
>> that I think is really useful:
>>
>> http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/arch/training2.shtml
>>
>> This mainly mentions training courses but does cover
>> conferences and workshops as well.
>>
>> Maybe this is a page, RSS news feed and podcast that UKOLN
>> web focus could provide Brian?
>
> Hi Adrian
> I don't think that the centrally-provided information resource is the
> route we should be going down.
> Providers of training courses, conferences, etc. should be providing
> RSS feeds - for example, Netskills have RSS feeds of their forthcoming
> workshops which could be embedded in your page.
> But I'm also beginning to think that community-provided information has
> an important role to play e.g. harvesting of Blogs, use of Folksonomies,
> etc. So rather than expecting others to do the work, or trapping data in
> unstructured email environments, if we make use of applications such as
> Flicker, del.ico.us, etc. the wider community can benefit.
> Incidentally, if you Google for 'iwmw 2005' apart from my Web site you
> find several Blog articles, several RSS reads - but nothing from this list
> and little from other Web sites. So valuable comments, questions, advice,
> etc. is findable if it's Blogged - but disappeared when it goes into a
> mailing list black hole. Time for a different approach?
>
> Brian
>
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> Brian Kelly
> UK Web Focus
> UKOLN
> University of Bath
> BATH
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> For info on FOAF see http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/b.kelly/foaf/
>
>
>> Adrian
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>>
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Pete Walker, Internet Development Manager
Institute for Learning and Research Technology (ILRT)
University of Bristol
8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol, BS8 1HH
Web: www.ilrt.bristol.ac.uk
Tel: 0117 928 7192
Email: [log in to unmask]
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