Colleagues managing scientific image repositories might find the
following course interesting:
>**Apologies for cross posting**
>Image Management in Bio- and Environmental Sciences: New
>Directions, a UKeiG and IAALD Course
>to be held at
>The John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester
>Thursday, 31st May, 2007, 9.30 - 16.30
>Workshop Outline
>The bio- and environmental sciences cover a broad spectrum
>from taxonomy to bioinformatics, farming to climate change,
>with a correspondingly wide range of information resources
>ranging from historic manuscripts to genomic databanks. Images
>form an important component of all these and achieving
>holistic management of diverse resources to allow easy
>correlation of their information content is challenging,
>especially for small information units and 'one-man-bands'.
>Developing technologies offer new opportunities but can
>themselves produce new demands in devising effective
>strategies for their use. This workshop aims to share
>experiences and float ideas in areas where there are as yet no
>'right answers'! The workshop will comprise a mix of
>presentations and group discussion, with demonstration of some
>examples of good practice. Topics are expected to range over:
>* Locating sources: what to look for and where to look
>* Digital libraries and repositories: cross searching effectively
>* Embedded images: searching within documents
>* Metadata content and ontologies: requirements for effective
>retrieval
>* Rights issues and commercial factors
>* Storage and preservation: short- and long-term issues
>* Using images in teaching and learning: the role of the
>information specialist
>* Taxonomic trails: specimen collection to DNA
>* Image Bioinformatics: developing new tools
>* The impact of web 2.0 technologies: salvation or hype?
>The workshop is presented in association with the new
>UK/Ireland chapter of IAALD (International Association of
>Agricultural Information Specialists), provisionally known as
>FIBS - Focus on Information in the Bio- and environmental
>Sciences. Who Should Attend
>Anyone whose work involves the use of images in this subject
>area will benefit from this meeting, from any sector -
>university, college, government, NHS, charity, learned
>society, commercial etc. We hope for a good mix as we all have
>much to learn from each other! Presenters
>A panel of speakers is being arranged, chaired by Roger Mills,
>Bio- and Environmental Sciences Librarian, Oxford University
>Library Services. Roger is currently President of EBHL
>(European Botanical and Horticultural
>Libraries) and co-ordinator of IUFRO (International Union of
>Forest Research
>Organisations) Unit 6.03.00 Information Services and Knowledge
>Organisation. He is co-author of The New Walford: Volume 1:
>Science Technology and Medicine, Facet, 2005, as subject
>specialist for Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries and Food.
>Further details of the speakers and programme will be
>announced on <http://www.ukeig.org.uk/training/> as available.
>Image Management in Bio- and Environmental Sciences: New Directions
>The John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester
>Thursday, 31st May 2007, 9.30 - 16.30
>Costs (including lunch and refreshments):
>UKeiG and IAALD members 130 + VAT (152.75); others 160 +
>VAT (188.00)
>Please complete and return this form by 24th May 2007, to
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>Yorkshire DL8 4EH. Tel & Fax 01969 625751.
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