Organisation - National E Science Centre

• International UPA 2010 Conference User Experience Design for the World

  Liza Zamboglou and Lorraine Paterson report on the Usability Professionals' Association's International Conference held in Munich, Germany in May 2010.

• Usability Inspection of Digital Libraries

  Lorraine Paterson and Boon Low highlight findings from the usability inspection report conducted for the UX2.0 research project.

• Eduserv Symposium 2009: Evolution Or Revolution: The Future of Identity and Access Management for Research

  Shirley Williams reports on the Eduserv Foundation Symposium which took as its theme investigate the intersection between identity management, access management and scholarly research collaboration across institutional and geographic boundaries.

• Research Data Preservation and Access: The Views of Researchers

  Neil Beagrie, Robert Beagrie and Ian Rowlands present findings from a UKRDS survey of researchers' views on and practices for preservation and dissemination of research data in four UK universities.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Integration and Impact: The JISC Annual Conference

  Marieke Guy has collated reports on sessions from the JISC Annual Conference held in Birmingham.

• Adding Value to the National Information Infrastructure: The EDINA Exchange Day, Edinburgh

  John MacColl provides us with a report of EDINA's first general information event for the HE and FE communities held at the National E-Science Centre.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Metadata Wanted for the Evanescent Library

  John MacColl reports on Schemas and Ontologies: Building a Semantic Infrastructure for the GRID and Digital Libraries: a one-day workshop at the e-Science Institute, May 2003.

• eBank UK: Building the Links Between Research Data, Scholarly Communication and Learning

  Liz Lyon describes some new digital library development activities and considers the implications of linking research and learning outputs in an environment of assured data provenance.