HEWIT 2004 ConferenceBrian Kelly gave a talk on What Can Internet Technologies Offer? at the HEWIT 2004 Conference held at the University of Wales conference centre at Gregynog on 17th-19th June 2004.
The talk took place from 16:00-17:15 on Thursday 17th June 2004.
Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus - an advisory post funded by the JISC and Resource: the Council for Libraries, Museums and Galleries to support the Higher and Further Education communities and the cultural heritage sector in making best use of the World Wide Web.
Brian is a long-standing Web developer, having helped establish the Web service at the University of Leeds in January 1993 - one of the first 50 Web services listed in CERN's directory of public Web sites. Although instantly spotting the potential for the Web for providing the Campus Wide Information Service at Leeds, Brian was concerned that inferior, although more widely used solutions such as Gopher, would become the de facto standard. So Brian sought to convert the Higher Education sector to use of the Web by giving presentations and seminars at a variety of conferences.
Following the universal acceptance of the Web, prior sought further involvement with Web technologies as the senior trainer at the Netskills training organisation, based at the University of Newcastle. In 1996 Brian was appointed as UK Web Focus at UKOLN, a national centre of expertise in digital information management based at the University of Bath.
Following the universal acceptance of the Web, prior sought further involvement with Web technologies as the senior trainer at the Netskills training organisation, based at the University of Newcastle. In 1996 Brian was appointed as UK Web Focus at UKOLN, a national centre of expertise in digital information management based at the University of Bath.
Brian is the JISC representative on the W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium), the body responsible for overseeing the development of Web standards. Brian is an active proponent of the use of open standards in order to provide the application and platform independence which are of particular importance in the Higher Education sector.