Institutional Web Management Workshop 2005:
Whose Web Is It Anyway?

Welcome

Brian Kelly

UKOLN

About The Workshop

• Plenary talks (set context)
• Parallel sessions (designed to be interactive and participative)
• Discussions groups, panel sessions, exhibition & posters
• Social programme (thanks to Adrian Stevenson's for list of restaurants, pubs, ... and innovative Podcast)
• Organised by UKOLN since launch in July 1997
• Workshop theme "Whose Web Is It Anyway?":
  • Do we focus too much on the Web provider?
  • Need to reflect on needs of other stakeholders
  • Who is using the Web?

About UKOLN

• National centre of expertise in digital information management
• Located at the University of Bath
• Funded by JISC and MLA to advise UK HE and FE communities & cultural heritage sector
• Hosts:
  • UK Web Focus
  • Interoperability Focus Team
  • Ariadne
  • Research in areas such as metadata, resource discovery, ...
  • ...

About You

Many different roles will be represented at the workshop:

• Policy Makers & Senior Managers
• Project Managers
• Software Developers
• Information Specialists
• Learning Technologists
• Designers / User Interface Specialists
• Support Staff
• ...

Many regular attendees - but how many newcomers?

Innovations

This is the ninth annual Institutional Web Management Workshop

This year's event sees a number of new developments:

• WiFi network
• Use of networked applications (Blogs, Wikis, instant messaging, Skype, ...) to support learning at the event
• A regional focus
• Two panel sessions (on the "Future of the Web Management Community" and "Facing the CMS Challenge")
• Exhibition and poster display

Use Of Networked Technologies

Wiki

Each talk & parallel session has page with a link to a Wiki-based annotation service. Use this to provide links to related work, etc.

Jabber Instant Messaging Environment

Chat rooms (e.g. iwmw-2005 and iwmw-2005-test) have been set up, primarily for quick communications (or IRC if firewall problems)

Skype (VoIP)

The Skype Internet telephony application may be used to allow remote users to listen in and contribute to selected talks (useful for the geographically challenged - and if buses fail to arrive!)

Podcasting

We intend to record plenary talks and make the recordings available on the Web (and as a Podcast) - subject to speaker's agreement

Technology To Fulfil A Need

The technologies are intended to:

• Enhance the learning experience at the workshop (e.g. peer support, arrange BoF (accessibility, Podcasting, real ale, ...)
• Gain experiences of how this environment may be used by academic and students

But should not:

• Be overly disruptive or distracting to others or infringe privacy, copyright, etc.

AUP

An AUP has been developed

Workshop Sponsors

We are building on the success of last year's workshop sponsors (Google)

Nedstat

European leader in website analytics

TERMINALFOUR

Provider of Enterprise Content Management Systems

Contensis

Content Management System designed for both technical & non-technical staff

MIMAS and RDN  

JISC-funded services, based locally

Sponsors will take an active part in the workshop

Evaluation

Need evaluate the event to ensure that things worked & identify areas of improvement

Also wish to evaluate impact of workshop series:

• Workshop, parallel session and technologies evaluation forms
• Impact analysis evaluation form and impact analysis sessions (2 sessions on Friday) (What has been the impact of the 75 talks and 109 parallel sessions in 8 events?)

Please complete forms and hand in - incentives provided :-)

Questions

Any questions?