IIS /.gamut conference for Web Managers - 4 May 2000Brian Kelly gave a talk on Standards For Building Web Sites at the GAMUT / IIS conference for Web Managers which was organised by the Institute of Information Scientists (IIS) and the .gamut regional Web managers group. The conference was held at King's College London on 4th May 2000.
The Web is based on a set of standards which are intended to provide interoperability and platform and application independence. Market forces, however, are introducing proprietary extensions of the Web, which may introduce vendor dependencies or hinder the development of the Web. On the other hand, innovations are needed in order to improve the web and introduce new features. In this talk Brian Kelly will outline the main standards on which the Web is based, review recent developments and discuss the pros and cons of adopting a standards-based approach to building Web sites.
Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus, a national, JISC-funded
web coordination post based at UKOLN (UK Office For Library and Information Networking),
University of Bath. Brian has previously worked at the
Universities of Loughborough (1984-90), Liverpool (1990-91),
Leeds (1991-96) and Newcastle (1995-96). In November 1996 Brian
took up his current post in Bath. His responsibilities include
monitoring web developments, information dissemination, providing
advice and representing JISC on the World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C). Brian presented a short paper at the WWW 8 conference and
will be delivering another two at the WWW 9 conference to be held
in Amsterdam in May 2000. He has also been a member of the WWW
conference programme committee on several occasions.
Dissemination of information on web developments is one of the important aspects of Brian's responsibilities. In addition to organising an annual workshop for University web managers Brian writes articles for a variety of publications including the Ariadne (see <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/>) and Exploit Interactive (see <http://www.exploit-lib.org/>) web magazines.