You may be interested in the following events, around the forthcoming 
WWW 2006 conference in Edinburgh.
Best wishes
Neil

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  JISC Information Environment and Digital Repositories Workshop

**22nd May 2006

 
Capacity 50 people
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*A pre-conference workshop at WWW2006 <http://www2006.org/>*

*Edinburgh International Conference Centre
Tinto Room
Lomond Suite*

Digital repositories, working within an integrated information 
environment, offer the potential to underpin a step-change in education 
and research. Repositories enable universities and colleges to share and 
manage their intellectual outputs, making existing work easier, more 
effective and efficient, and supporting innovative teaching, learning 
and research practice. This workshop will present the work JISC is 
funding to make this happen, and offer an opportunity for those working 
within universities to discuss how they might best exploit this work in 
their own context.

The aim of the workshop is deepen the shared understanding within the 
higher education community about the role of repositories. The target 
audience is researchers, teachers, managers and administrators who have 
an interest in sharing or managing the intellectual output of universities.

All delegates are entitled to a 10% discount to attend the WWW2006 
conference.

*http://www.jisc.ac.uk/www2006_repositories.html*



Attendees of the JISC "Information Environment and Digital  
Repositories" Workshop can obtain a 20% discount on one-day  
registrations for the professional development tutorial "Current Best  
Practices in Web Development and Design" taking place on the  following 
day (Tuesday 23rd May).

This tutorial provides a survey of contemporary Web design &  
development technologies and how they can serve your projects. It  will 
cover the current thinking about contemporary Web development,  
including clarifying buzz terms such as AJAX and Web 2.0. It will  help 
you to understand the benefits of Web standards and best  practices, and 
learn how technical and ROI performance improves with  their 
implementation. Attendees will learn to author markup and style  at an 
expert level, with an understanding of microformats, tagging  and other 
emerging metadata extensions and how they can be used today  to enhance 
search and findability. Take away new ideas to permit  adoption of the 
best of industry solutions.

This tutorial is a full-day event sponsored by the World Organization  
of Webmasters (WOW) in the WWW2006 conference Developers' Track. It  is 
given by Devan Shepherd (author of Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days)  and 
David Leip (Corporate Webmaster for IBM). Attendees will have the  
option to sit for WOW's Certified Professional Webmaster (CPW) exam.

Alternatively, a 10% discount may be obtained for attendance at the  
full conference which also covers topics relevant to many JISC  
activities (Web Accessibility, Mobile Web, Semantic Web, Security),  
with sessions for developers, standards watchers and researchers. See  
www2006.org for further details.

To attend this tutorial at the discount rate, please email Grace  Porter 
( [log in to unmask] ) for instructions, clearly  indicating that 
you are a JISC delegate.

-- 
Neil Jacobs <[log in to unmask]>
JISC Executive, Beacon House, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1QU
+44 (0)117 33 10772   /   07768 040179