Archive for the ‘Workshops’ Category

This summer, OSS Watch is sponsoring a major open source conference, aiming to connect academia with open source businesses.  The main conference will be held over two days, 24-25 June 2010, at Keble College Oxford. Covering topics within both academia and business, the event will try to identify areas of activity of mutual interest, looking at how the two sectors can engage with each other. Registration is now open.

OSS Watch has teamed up with Torchbox to run a BarCamp at the Oxford University Club in Oxford in 26 June 2010. In keeping with the concept of a BarCamp this is an informal, geeky event where delegates can set their own agenda for discussions. This BarCamp follows on from the TransferSummit taking place in Oxford over the previous few days so we hope to see some of the conference delegates staying on for the BarCamp but you don’t need to have been to the conference to join in the fun. Why not sign up today!

JISC are running some Developer Days in February (24th – 27th) in London. One of the sessions is a focus on Digitisation workflow. A summary of the day says :-

Taking you from the act of scanning images and objects, learning how to process and edit them with software like ocrupus, blender and OpenCV, storing and manipulating them online and finally, through to printing their digital forms out, mashed together with comments, citations, automatic qr codes and even other digital objects!

Full Details here

Interested in Moodle? If so, this might be of interest to you.

http://cuba.coventry.ac.uk/openforum/

Digital preservation tools for repository managers, starts Tuesday 19 January 2010, Southampton, UK

This free practical course is designed for repository managers and presented by expert tutors, in five parts – covering organisational issues, costs, description, preservation workflow, and trust – between January and March 2010, in the UK. You are invited to sign up now for this distinctive new course, which culminates in a ground-breaking tutorial on joined-up tools for preservation management workflow for repositories.

Each module will give extensive coverage of chosen topics and tools through presentation, practical exercises, group work and feedback. This course will, uniquely, specialise in working with tools optimised for digital institutional repositories.

The first module will be held in Southampton on 19 January. Further modules follow on 5 Feb, 2 Mar, 17-18 Mar and 30 Mar. The modules each last a single day, apart from module 4 on the preservation workflow, which will last two days and includes an evening social event.

The course is presented by the JISC KeepIt project in association with Digital Curation Centre, and the European Planets project.

Find out more http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/keepit/2009/12/18/digital-preservation-training-for-repository-managers/

Digital preservation, the ability to manage content effectively and ensure continued access over time, is an implicit commitment made by an institution to those who deposit their important and valuable content in its repository. It’s also an asset for a repository to be able demonstrate to its users good quality content management processes embracing digital preservation.

Short-Term Training Course on Design and Development of Digital Libraries using DSpace 15-19 February 2010

Organized by Training Division
National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR) New Delhi, India

Broad course contents:

* Digital Library: Concepts and software
* Metadata: Overview
* Linux: An OSS Operating System
* DSpace: Overview, Installation
* Administration: Communities, Collections, Items, Groups, ePeople, Work Flow
* Customization, Authorisation,
* Backup & Restore,
* Metadata Harvesting,
* Case studies, etc.

COURSE FEE for participants from:
India Rs. 2000/= (Without Accommodation); Rs. 2600/= (With Accommodation)
SAARC/ Vietnam US$ 130 (With Accommodation) Other Countries US$ 180 (With Accommodation)

How to apply: Application form is available at www.niscair.res.in or can be obtained by sending an email to training@niscair.res.in. Filled in application form along with the appropriate course fee is to be paid by Demand Draft drawn in favour of “Director, NISCAIR” and sent to In-Charge (Training), Education and Training Division, NISCAIR, 14-Satsang Vihar Marg, New Delhi – 110067

CONTACT

Dr. Narendra Kumar,
In-Charge, Training Division,
National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (NISCAIR)
14, Satsang Vihar Marg
New Delhi-110 067
India
Tel: +91-11-26965094/+91-11-26863617
FAX: +91-11-26862228
E-mail: training[at]niscair.res.in; narendrakumar[at]niscair.res.in

Further Details: http://niscair.res.in/ActivitiesandServices/HRD/hrd.html

Looks a bit late in the day, but there is a summary of the OSS Watch Workshop held last January (2009). Looks like OSS Watch Research Officer Rowan Wilson covered a lot of ground and issues during the day.

http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/businessandsustainability.xml

OSS Watch are running a Workshop on engaging the community to get involved in open development. It’s at the University Club, 11 Mansfield Road, Oxford on the 7th December 2009.
Details here