Workshop Events Available For Staff At Strathclyde (and in the Region)
The Institutional Web Managment workshop will take place at the University of
Strathclyde on 18-20th June 2002. Although the event is now fully-booked,
there are a number of sessions for which space is available, and which are open,
at no charge, for people in the area. These are listed below.
OAI and EPrints
A 90 minute seminar on
Exploiting Locally-Created E-resources: OAI and E-prints
will take place on Wednesday 19th June 2002 from 16:00-17:30.
This session will be of interest to those interesting in setting up an
institutional e-prints archive.
The session is being facilitated by Bob Kemp
of CDLR, University of Strathclyde.
Providing 360° Panoramic Scenes on the Web
A 90 minute seminar on
Providing 360° Panoramic Scenes on the Web
will take place on Wednesday 19th June 2002 from 16:00-17:30.
This workshop session aims to introduce and instruct participants in the use of
360° panoramic scenes on the Web.
A proof of concept example of such a scene can be seen at
<http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/facilities>.
The session is being facilitated by Jim Whyte
and Graeme Fleming of the University of Strathclyde.
Computer Scientists - A Help Or A Hindrance ;-)!
A 75 minute seminar on
Computer Scientists - A Help Or A Hindrance ;-)!
will take place on Thursday 20th June 2002 from 09:15-10:30.
The session is being facilitated by Duncan Smeed
of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde.
Software Vendor Slots
A 75 minute presentation from 2 software wvendors will take on Thursday 20th
June 2002 from 09:15-10:30. The Vendor Slot
will feature the following presentations:
- SITS is the UK market leader in Academic
Management Solutions with over 50% of the UK HE and FE market choosing the
SITS:Vision software suite.
In this presentation Jeff Stephenson will describe
IPP (Institution Programme Publishing): software which enables you to publish
your course, module or other information on the Web, e.g. Certificate, Undergraduate
& Post-graduate courses; Continuing Education or Leisure programmes;
module catalogues; public lectures; conferences and concerts.
IPP includes facilities for Web site user self-registration, Web enquiries,
Web applications (using Adobe Acrobat forms), Web bookings and payments.
- Mediasurface provides enterprise wide,
dynamic content management software solutions to some of the worlds leading
organisations including Baan, Oxford University Press, VNU and The Prudential.
In this presentation Peter McCudden will talk about "The Need for Content Management".
The united front portrayed through a University Web site is one which is largely
down to consistent brand, design and unified site structure. The Mediasurface
content management solution enables faculty staff to input their own content
while at the same time present a unified front to the viewing public. Find out
how Northumbria University maximised on the unique capabilities of the
Mediasurface CM solution to achieve exactly this.
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