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April 2007
April 01, 2007
Guest Bloggers
April 01, 2007
A new blog experiment which is being launched on 1st April is the Guest Blogger. The aim of this is to allow a fellow blogger to give their views and thoughts on a topic area covered by this blog. I hope that this will provide some variety to the blog. The experiment is also intended to provide ...
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April 02, 2007
Guest Post: UK Library Blogs - What Do We Think We’re Doing?
April 02, 2007
Background Roddy MacLeod was invited to launch the guest blog spot in the UK Web Focus blog by giving his views on issues which have been raised on this blog. Roddy’s posting addresses the use of blogs in the UK Library community. UK Library Blogs - What Do We Think We’re Doing? Brian doesn’t need to twist my arm for me ...
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April 04, 2007
Rediscovering My Past
April 04, 2007
I will shortly be moving offices (along the corridor from where I’m currently based). The process of sorting out my files is providing a valuable opportunity to get rid of out-of-date papers. It is also very intriguing when I find various old papers, providing an opportunity to reflect on the past and the views we had back ...
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April 05, 2007
Addressing The Limitations Of Open Standards
April 05, 2007
Open standards are great - they can provide machine- and application-independence, thus avoiding vendor lock-in and they can help to ensure services are interoperable and are widely accessible. Unfortunately open standards don’t always work - they can be too ambitious, fail to gain market acceptance, may be too costly to implement or be superceded by alternatives. So ...
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April 10, 2007
Accessibility 2.0: A Holistic and User-centred Approach to Web Accessibility
April 10, 2007
Web accessibility, just like open standards may be regarded (like motherhood and apple pie) as concepts which one could not possibly argue against. But what if the traditional approach to Web accessibility, based on ensuring Web resources comply with WCAG 1.0 guidelines, doesn’t work? And perhaps one interpretation of the poor levels of conformance is the ...
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April 11, 2007
Museums and the Web 2007: Day 0
April 11, 2007
I am currently in San Francisco, for the Museums and Web 20007 conference. I was pleased to be invited to be a member of the Program Committee last year, as I am seeking greater involvement with the museums sector. It was therefore appropriate for me to make a number of submissions to ...
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April 12, 2007
Model For Making Use Of Third Party Web Services
April 12, 2007
When I spoke recently at the AoC Nilta conference, I attended a session given by Randy Metcalfe of the JISC-funded OSS Watch service on “Comparison Shopping Evaluating Open Source Wikis and VLEs“. One interesting aspect of the session was the brief description Randy gave of the Business Readiness Rating approach to assessing the appropriateness of open ...
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April 13, 2007
Museums and the Web 2007 Conference: Day 1
April 13, 2007
The opening plenary talk at the Museums and the Web 2007 Conference was given by Brewster Kahle if the Internet Archive. Brewster spoke on “Universal Access to Human Knowledge (Or Public Access to Digital Materials)“. This was a ...
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April 14, 2007
Museums and the Web 2007 Conference: Day 2
April 14, 2007
Background Day 2 of the Museums and the Web 2007 Conference (Friday 13 April, I need to remind myself) began with Birds-of-a-feather sessions which started at 08.00. I didn’t attend any of these session, partly as I’m not staying at the conference hotel, but more importantly Stephen Brown and I needed to sort out the final details for our ...
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April 16, 2007
Museums and the Web 2007 Conference: Day 3
April 16, 2007
Saturday 14 April 2007 The final day of the Museums and the Web 2007 Conference - and it’s a Saturday with, again sessions starting at 08.00 (I don’t think this would happen in similar conferences held in the UK). Benchmarking Session This morning I chaired the session on “Bookmarking”. David Bearman, the conference co-chair, described this as the ‘Brits Session’ when ...
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April 18, 2007
UK Museums and the Semantic Web Thinktank
April 18, 2007
Background The Arts and Humanities Research Council funded a Thinktank with the remit to engage with a variety of experts on the potential for making use of the Semantic Web in a museum’s context. I attended the launch meeting and the final meeting of the group. One suggestion I (supported by Paul Shabajee) made at the initial meeting was ...
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April 19, 2007
Radical Trust? We’re Doing It!
April 19, 2007
I mentioned recently that one of the sessions at the Museums and the Web 2007 conference I found very useful was entitled”Radical Trust: State of the Museum Blogosphere“. I have to admit that when I decided to attend the session, I was rather confused by the title: I realised that the speakers would be likely to review developments ...
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April 23, 2007
Blotter And Museum Blogs
April 23, 2007
As described by Nate Schroedr the session at the Museums and the Web 2007 conference on Radical Trust: The state of the museum blogosphere by Sebastian Chan and Jim Spadaccini, was “One of the most anticipated sessions of the conference for me — and more than a few others, judging by the size of the crowd!“. And you ...
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April 24, 2007
Accessibility of MW 2007 Papers
April 24, 2007
Papers from the Museums and the Web 2007 conference are available online on the MW 2007 Web site. That’s great - but are the papers accessible, one might ask. And are they available in a variety of formats, to suit the end users preferences - including, perhaps, as a MP3 file? The papers may comply with Web accessibility guidelines, ...
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April 25, 2007
This Blog Is Worth ….
April 25, 2007
The Business Opportunities blog contains a post on How much is your blog worth? The answer for this blog is given below: My blog is worth $34,436.94. How much is your blog worth? Another gimmick, similar to the Are You an A-List Bloglebrity? tool described in the Metrics For Measuring The Effectiveness Of Blogs posting? Or a valuable service which ...
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April 27, 2007
Accessibility and User-Generated Content
April 27, 2007
I met Jacco van Ossenbruggen from CWI, Netherlands at the Museums and the Web conference. I’d seen Jacco at previous international WWW conferences, but this was the first time we spoken - and Jacco provided valuable contributions to the UK Museum’s Semantic Web Thinktank meeting. After the conference I wanted to email Jacco about another area of mutual interest ...
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Blogging At The MW 2007 Conference
April 27, 2007
The Museums and the Web 2007 conference was the first time I’ve use a blog to record and share my thoughts on the sessions. I found that it did require more concentration than I’d expected - and on a couple of occasions I missed sessions in order to do some further reading (of the papers presented, for ...
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April 30, 2007
All Change: Adapt and Thrive in a Digital Age
April 30, 2007
As may be apparent from recent postings, UKOLN is active in working, not just with libraries, with also with the museums and archives community. Following my recent trip to the Museums and the Web 2007 conference, on Thursday 26th April I spoke at the All Change: Adapt and Thrive in a Digital Age conference organised by the London Museums ...
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I’ve Lost My Widgets
April 30, 2007
Those of you have have visited this blog’s Web site recently may have noticed that the appearance is rather more minimalist than it used to be. This wasn’t my doing - it seems that it has reverted to the default for this theme. However this does provide me with an (unexpected) opportunity to rethink the appearance, ...
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