Understanding And Exploiting Web 2.0: Introduction

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Understanding And Exploiting Web 2.0
Introduction
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• Brian Kelly
• UKOLN
• University of Bath
• Bath

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Contents

• About Me
• Myself
• UKOLN
• About You
• Who you are and what you do
• Your interests and what you'd like to gain
• About The Workshop Sessions
• What we'll cover
• How we'll cover it
• Your feedback

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About Me
Introduction

• Brian Kelly
• Employed at UKOLN, University of Bath
• A Web adviser to the higher / further education
  and cultural heritage sectors
• Involved in the Web since 1992
• Helped set up Web service at University of Leeds
  (when lt 50 organisations had public Web service)
• Involved in promoting best practices and
  innovations related to the Web
• Current mains interests
• Web 2.0 ? Role of standards
• Impact analysis ? Accessibility
• Light-weight solutions ?

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About UKOLN
Introduction

• UKOLN
• Applied research centre
• Funded by JISC and MLA
• Name formerly stood for "UK Office For Library
  and Information Networking"
• We now "a national centre of expertise in digital
  information management"
• Based at the University of Bath, Bath in the
  south-west of England

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About Yourself
Introduction

• Please give brief information about
• Your name
• Where you work
• What you do
• What you hope to get out of these sessions

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About The Workshop Sessions

• The workshop sessions will be a mixture of
• Talks
• Demonstrations
• Hands-on exercises
• Group discussions
• Group exercises

About The Sessions
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Feel Free To Interrupt
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JISC
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About The Sessions
OPML
W3C
VUB
Krieke

• Are you worried that
• The workshops will be full of acronyms?
• I'll talk to fast (or you won't understand me)?
• Please don't be. Please
• Ask if I make use of any unexplained TLAs (or
  XTLAs)
• Ask me I I use terms which relate specifically to
  my context (e.g. the UK)
• Ask me if you'd like me to speak more slowly

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Draft Timetable (1)
Time Session
10.00-10.30 Introduction
10.30-11.15 Web 2.0 What is It? (talk)
11.15-11.30 Break
11.30-12.45 Using Web 2.0 Hands-on
12.45-13.00 Review
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.40 Role of Standards (talk)
14.40-15.15 What do we Mean by Openness? (talk)
15.15-15.30 Break
15.30-16.45 Web 2.0 Hip or Hype? (talk discussion)
16.45-17.00 Conclusions
About The Sessions
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Draft Timetable (2)
Time Session
10.00-10.15 Benchmarking Your Web Site (talk)
10.15-11.00 Benchmarking Your Web Site (hands-on)
11.00-11.30 Break
11.30-12.30 Impact Analysis For Your Web Site (talk)
12.30-13.00 Group exercises
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.40 Accessibility, Usability Interoperability (talk)
14.40-15.15 Experiences in Use of Wikis (talk)
15.15-15.30 Break
15.30-16.00 Deployment Strategies for Web 2.0 (talk)
16.00-16.45 Deployment Strategies (exercise)
16.45-17.00 Conclusions
About The Sessions
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Questions?
What Next?

• Any questions

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