Workshop Committees
Two commmittees are responsible for organising the Institutional Web Management
Workshop. The Programme Committee is responsible
for the workshop content and the Organising Committee
for the workshop administration, logistics, etc.
Details of membership of these committees is given below.
Programme Committee
Membership of the Programme Committee is given below.
Biographical details of members of the Programme Committee follows.
 Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus - a JISC-funded post which provides
advice and support to the UK Higher and Further Education communities on
Web issues. Brian has been chair of the organising committees for the
Institutional Web Management Workshop series since he established the
event in 1997.
As well as organising the event Brian will also be giving a briefing session
on "Web Standards".
Brian can be contacted at
<B.Kelly@ukoln.ac.uk>.
Diane McDonald is a senior member
of the Information Resources Directorate of the University of Strathclyde. Her
current major interest is in the use of technology to enhance the effectiveness
of the University, and organisations or communities in general.
As part of this Diane is responsible for a number of projects ranging from Knowledge
Management to the design and develop an intelligence-enabled infrastructure of
networked services for supporting the citizen of the future.
Previously she was the Network and Security Manager for the University and was
responsible for the development of the University's networking infrastructure &
services, including the installation of one of the first gigabit campus backbones
within Europe. She was a member of the technical group responsible for the design
and procurement of ClydeNET, the West of Scotland HE MAN and a member of the SHEFC
subgroup that investigated MAN resilience.
She is a member of the `PREDICT' framework within the Information Resources Directorate
(IRD). 'PReDICT' represents the leading edge work of the ICT part of the IRD. It
comprises a federation of technology based initiatives, many of which are collaborative,
both internally and externally, designed individually and collectively to further
enhance the University's capabilities in decision taking, progress and performance
evaluation, and the development of advanced techniques enabled by technology, for
the prosecution of its activities.
Diane can be contacted at
<D.McDonald@strath.ac.uk>.
 James Currall joined the University of Glasgow
as a statistical computing consultant in 1989 and has contributed to the research
work of over 30 departments in the University. He comes from a background of biology
and statistics. Since 1994 he has been the manager of the User Service Team in
the University Computing Service, with overall responsibility for training,
documentation, Web development, software support and advisory services. He was
also deputy director of a UK-wide support centre for computers in the teaching
of statistics.
In 1997 he broadened his interests into areas of information beyond numbers,
when he jointly put together the University's Information Strategy framework with
Michael Moss and subsequently he was made Information Strategy Co-ordinator.
From 1997-2000 he co-lead (with Michael Moss) the Effective Records Management
project funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Technology
Application Programme (JTAP), which carried out fundamental research on management
of organisational records in digital form.
The information strategy developments have lead on to Intranet and security work
and James has just finished a project looking at the use of Middleware technologies
(particularly with respect to authentication and other security) to permit people
to publish information in a secure environment without the need for them to have
detailed technical knowledge. During 2000/1 he was also involved in a project,
with South Bank University, investigating Information Security Culture.
For the last year, James has been a Senior Research Fellow of the Humanities
Advanced Technology and Information Institute, where he is developing research
into information access drawing on his Computing Service work. In the last few
years he has worked on and given talks on a wide variety of topics concerned with
the use and potential of technology in teaching, statistics, information, security
and various combinations of these.
As well as being a member of the programme committee James is co-facilitating
a parallel session on "Right People, Right Stuff: Right Pain?".
James can be contacted at
<J.Currall@compserv.gla.ac.uk>.
Kriss Fearon has been Web Coordinator at the University of York
for 6 years. Initially graduating in Greek Studies and Philosophy, she has a publishing
background and an MPhil in Publishing Studies from the University of Stirling.
She is responsible for advice and implementation of non-technical Web issues
mainly based around project work such as legal liability, design revisions,
and other issues common to many HE institutions. Her particular interest is in
effective departmental outreach in decentralised institutions and professionalisation
of Web staff.
As well as being a member of the programme committee Kriss is
co-facilitating the parallel session on "Advertising on Web Sites".
Kriss can be contacted at
<kf7@york.ac.uk>.
Duncan Smeed is a member of
academic staff in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the
University of Strathclyde. A brief biography is available at
<http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/people/biography/dunc/>.
He is committed user of Web/internet technologies to support and inform his
teaching and research. His teaching interests in computer science are concentrated
at the hardware end of the spectrum. His research interests revolve around the
use of the Web/Internet to facilitate collaboration and knowledge transfer.
As an early adopter of Web technologies, Duncan has almost a decade of experience
in using such technologies to deliver teaching material and to coordinate students'
project work. He has been a member of his Faculty's IT committee - for far too
long! - and has recently been serving as a member of his University's Information
Strategy Advisory Group and Information Technology Advisory Group committees
at which he takes pains to represent the interests of the academic community of
the institution.
Duncan has been a member of the British Computer Society for over 20 years and
is a past Chairman of the Glasgow Branch Committee.
Duncan's first (and, so far, only) attendance at an IWMW was in Bath at the
IWMW 2000 event. At a show of hands at a plenary session there, he appeared to
be one of only a handful of academic teaching staff in attendance ;-) Nevertheless,
he thoroughly enjoyed the event and is pleased to be a member of the Programme
Committee for IWMW 2002. He will be hosting a 'Weblogging and Personal Content
Management' workshop. To support the workshop he will use the technology he is
most familiar with - Conversant - to create and maintain a workshop specific site:
<http://www.free-conversant.com/iwmw-2002/>
and will use this to demonstrate some of the concepts in this approach to (personal)
Web site management.
The extent to which Duncan is committed to the use of these technologies is
(sadly?) reflected in the fact that a Google search for 'duncan' (at the time of
writing) has him as hit number 1!
As well as being a member of the programme committee Duncan is facilitating
the parallel sessions on
"Weblogs and Blogs: What Are They? What Can They Be Used For?" and
"Computer Scientists - A Help Or A Hindrance ;-)!".
Duncan can be contacted at
<duncan.smeed@cis.strath.ac.uk>.
Organising Committee
Membership of the Organising Committee is given below.
Sara Hassen
joined UKOLN in November 2001 as Events and Marketing Manager. Sara started her
working life at the Bristol and West Building Society - but after a seven-month
break to travel around the world and take stock of her life she decided that her
real passion in life was to organise and manage events. Sara has spent the past
three years working for an event and conference management company, based in Bristol,
where her job included working on a number of high profile international conferences
that attracted more than 700 delegates. Since joining UKOLN she has managed a number
of successful events for the Collection Description Focus Workshop and is currently
heavily involved in the organisation of meetings being held by the Joint Information
System Committee and the Coalition for Networked information and National Science
Foundation..
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