"A centre of excellence in digital information management, providing advice and services to the library, information and cultural heritage communities."

UKOLN is based at the University of Bath.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is: developments in Web design and technology that support collaborative and communications services, such as social networking, wikis, blogs, multimedia sharing (e.g. images, video and video blogs), rss feeds, tagging and folksonomies.

First Steps

• IntroBytes quick introductions (web 2.0, social networking, blogs)
• Meet and Learn at events

Read about it

• Lorcan Dempsey’s Weblog on libraries, networks and services
• Phil Bradley’s Weblog on “Internet searching, web design, search engine developments and anything that will interest librarians”
• Seb Chan’s Weblog Fresh and new(er) focuses on “discussion of issues around digital media and museums”
• The UK Web Focus blog is the key communications channel for UK Web Focus activities
• National Museums Liverpool blog: the individual posts cover the whole range of the museum's activities.

Look and Listen

• Brian Kelly on why he blogs, uses wikis and social networks.