I'm on their steering committee! In fact, I was asked to chair the event
but they didn't give me enough notice. I think you should go, I'm sure
it will be worthwhile, and you'll meet some people who could be useful
to the project.
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From: qual-software [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
M.Macintyre
Sent: 21 September 2005 15:52
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Subject: Re: [QUAL-SOFTWARE] Forthcoming event: Online Qualitative Data
Resources: Best Practice in Metadata Creation and Web Standards
Hi Nigel,
I'm thinking of going to the event below, do you know anything about it?
I know that it's not closely related to our project and wondered whether
you think it would be appropriate? There is no charge for the day and
is in London.
Best Wishes,
Maria
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Corti, Louise
Sent: 06 September 2005 13:56
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Subject: Forthcoming event: Online Qualitative Data Resources: Best
Practice in Metadata Creation and Web Standards
Forthcoming Workshop:
Online Qualitative Data Resources: Best Practice in Metadata Creation
and Web Standards
15 November 2005
Centre Point, London
The Qualitative Demonstrator Scheme (QUADS) Co-ordination, based at ESDS
Qualidata, UK Data Archive is holding a one-day workshop to discuss the
fundamentals of presenting qualitative data resources on the web and for
longer-term sharing and archiving. The focus is on promoting the
standards available and gaining support to consolidate some of the
emerging ones. Standards of relevance are those
for: building sustainable web sites; harmonious data descriptions to
enable rich resource discovery (metadata); and marking-up data content.
Web standards are important - good practice in web design and usability
builds on compliance with W3C guidelines and Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines. Equally, metadata plays a crucial role in the
identification, retrieval, management and long-term storage of digital
qualitative data. But consensus is needed to ensure common ways of
describing resources, so that resource discovery strategies etc. can be
pooled.
Finally, marking-up of data (using universal (XML) standards) enables
richer and deeper navigation, searching and retrieval at the data
content level, for example enabling web representation of raw or
analysed multimedia data. Mark-up, at the data level, enables the
richness of a coded textual document, links from text to audio excerpts,
or researcher annotations, to be retained. Mark-up is also important for
longer-term storage and preservation and more complex collaborative
research and e-science type exploitation (e.g. linking multiple data and
information sources). With support from the international community of
data archives, ESDS Qualidata has proposed an XML community standard
(schema) that is applicable to most qualitative data and would like
feedback on the schema.
To add an applied dimension to the day, four current projects, that are
creating online resources for qualitative data collections using XML
standards and technologies, will provide an informal overview of their
work.
The workshop will be of most interest to those building online resources
based on qualitative data collections, and those who are working with
qualitative data in the field of e-science.
There is no charge for this event.
Details including programme and booking are at:
http://www.esds.ac.uk/qualidata/news/eventdetail.asp?ID=1441
Anne Etheridge
Promotions/Publicity Coordinator
UK Data Archive - a service provider for the Economic and Social Data
Service (ESDS)
University of Essex
Colchester, CO4 3SQ
Tel: +44 (0) 1206 873159
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