http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/iwmw/ Details of the plenary speakers (from UK HEIs and related educational organisations together with overseas speakers) at Institutional Web Management Workshops 1997-2010 en 2010-05-30 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#boag http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#boag Paul Boag has been working on the web since 1993. He is a user experience consultant for Headscape Ltd, a web design agency that he founded back in 2002. He typically works on large institutional websites including government agencies, higher education institutions and heritage organisations. Paul also produces and hosts the longest running and popular web design podcast at boagworld.com. He is regularly speaker at workshops and conferences and writes for various publications. Paul will be giving a plenary talk entitled "No money? No matter - Improve your website with next to no cash". 2010-07-13 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#brierton http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#brierton Richard Brierton has been working in the Web team at the University of Sheffield since 2003 - initially as a Web Developer, and since 2007 as head of the web team. Since graduating with a degree in Multimedia Technology (video, animation, web etc), he has run through a wide-range of activities at the university - web development, design, usability, server setup and administration, improving resilience of systems, video streaming, collaboration tools plus a whole host of other things he cares not to mention. The team also spend a lot of time working with their Web Marketing team on cross-cutting work! Current fads are creating an editor community; training up the web editor community; upgrading/replacing their CMS; increasing user support and buy-in, most of which he'll be talking about at the conference. Richard will be giving a plenary talk entitled "Replacement CMS - Getting it right and getting the buy-in", part of the Doing the Day Job session. 53.383994 -1.488647 2010-07-13 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#farrell http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#farrell Susan Farrell Susan Farrell is a web consultant with a background in information science. Her career has spanned everything from abstracting and editing to website development and content management system implementations. Having spent the last few years as Head of Web and Portal Services at King's College London, Susan set up her own company, Susan Farrell Consulting Ltd, in January 2010. The company specialises in helping clients to maximise the effectiveness of their web presence and does this by: developing and implementing web, digital and content strategies; driving website redesign and development projects; ensuring the optimum user experience through stakeholder engagement and user research; and aiming for high levels of usability through excellent content management. Susan gained a BSc in Biology from Durham University many years ago, and an MSc in Information Science from Sheffield University almost as long ago, and certainly long before the web was even dreamed about! Susan will be giving a plenary talk entitled "Are web managers still needed when everyone is a web 'expert'?". 2010-07-12 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#gilbert http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#gilbert Peter Gilbert is a SharePoint evangelist and "developer" working at UWE. He works in SharePoint technologies using C#, InfoPath, Skelta and blog about their good and bad points. In his "spare" time he is an artist and photographer and helps organise the Southbank Bristol Arts Trail as well as running other arts events throughout the year. Peter will be giving a plenary talk entitled "The impact of SharePoint in Higher Education" with James Lappin, part of the Doing the Day Job session. 51.500782 -2.546768 2010-07-14 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#guy http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#guy Marieke Guy UKOLN Marieke Guy is a research officer in the Community and Outreach Team at UKOLN. She has chaired IWMW for the last 4 years (with one short-break in which she had a baby!). Marieke is currently working on a digital preservation guide for JISC. In the past she has been involved in many JISC and cultural heritage projects from the technical (Good APIs, ePrints, Subject Portals), to the not-so-technical (Web 2.0 workshops for museums, libraries and archives) and the in-between (JISC PoWR, Nof-digitise, Ariadne). Marieke is UKOLN's remote worker champion and last year won the Remote Worker of the year accolade. She has worked on a number of initiatives aimed specifically at remote workers and written several articles on remote working and related technologies. She maintains a blog entitled Ramblings of a Remote Worker. Marieke is co-chair of the event and will be giving the welcome with Brian Kelly. 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 2010-07-12 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#kelly http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#kelly Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus - a post funded by the JISC which provides advice and support to the UK Higher and Further Education communities and the museums, libraries and archives sector on Web issues. Brian is based at UKOLN. Brian's interests include Web standards, Web accessibility, quality assurance for Web services and innovative Web developments, including collaborative Web tools. Brian is co-chair of the event and will be giving the welcome with Marieke Guy. He will also be facilitating a parallel session entitled "Engagement, Impact, Value: Measuring and Maximising Impact Using the Social Web". 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 2010-07-12 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#kika http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#kika Suraj Kika is the CEO and founder of Jadu, a global CMS software vendor that specialises in enterprise web content management, transactional and search systems. Jadu has implemented for both Public and Private Sectors, Higher Education and NFP markets. After just seven years the company is one of the leading CMS vendors in the UK with aggressive growth across the globe. Suraj has shaped the functionality of Jadu CMS around enterprise 2.0 and social media, making Jadu one of the first CMS systems to deploy personalisation, blogging, social media, podcasting, image and video content management as standard features. Jadu recently announced the first CMS client for Twitter taking the micro blogging service into the enterprise for brand management and moderated publishing to social networks. The MyJadu API, a RESTful interface to the Jadu CMS, provides organisations with rapid interoperability and the ability to capitalize on their content and data through WebServices. Suraj started his career in publishing and then worked in graphic design and marketing before moving into online marketing and eCommerce development at Electrocomponents PLC. Suraj will be giving a plenary talk entitled "Social Networking - The Challenges and Opportunities of social media and the implications for HEI Web Masters", part of the Doing the Day Job session. 2010-07-14 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#lappin http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#lappin James Lappin is a records management consultant and trainer. He writes on records management topics for his blog Thinking Records. James is the co-author of Northumbria University's 'Investigation into the use of SharePoint in UK Higher Education Institutions' published in January 2010. He is an accredited trainer for the European Commission, for whom he provides records management training. James obtained his MA in Archives and Records Management at UCL in 1994, after which he held records management roles at The National Archives, the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, and the Wellcome Trust. He worked as a consultant and trainer for TFPL between 2004 and 2008, before founding his company Thinking Records, at the start of 2009. James will be giving a plenary talk entitled "The impact of SharePoint in Higher Education" with Peter Gilbert, part of the Doing the Day Job session. 2010-07-14 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#lapka http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#lapka Josef Lapka is a senior Web Applications Developer at Corporate Information Services at Canterbury Christ Church University. With a team of three .NET developers, Josef is responsible for all web application developments at the University. Josef started off as a DTP designer moving into web design and development before programming in .NET. Josef will be giving a plenary talk entitled "StudentNET Portal", part of the Doing the Day Job session. 51.281125 1.088161 2010-07-14 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#lauke http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#lauke Patrick Lauke works as Web Evangelist in the Developer Relations team at Opera Software ASA. In a previous life he worked as Web Editor for the University of Salford, where in 2003 he implemented one of the first thoroughly web standards based sites in the sector. Patrick has been engaged in the discourse on standards and accessibility since early 2001 - regularly speaking at conferences and contributing to a variety of web development and accessibility related mailing lists and initiatives such as the Web Standards Project. Published works include a chapter in Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance, released by Friends of Ed in 2006, as well as various articles for .net magazine, where he sits on the advisory panel. An outspoken accessibility and standards advocate, Patrick favours a pragmatic hands-on approach over purely theoretical, high-level discussions. "I'm an idealist by nature, but a pragmatist by trade. I'd never class myself as an expert and I certainly don't have all the answers...I'm just an opinionated guy eager to find real world solutions 'where the rubber meets the road'." His personal corner of the web can be found at http://www.splintered.co.uk. Patrick will be giving a plenary talk entitled "HTML5 (and friends)". 2010-07-13 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#sexton http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#sexton Chris Sexton University of Sheffield http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/talks/sexton/ Chris Sexton is Director of Corporate Information and Computing Services at the University of Sheffield and current chair of UCISA. Chris will be giving a plenary talk entitled "The Web in Turbulent Times". 53.383994 -1.488647 2010-07-12 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#speller http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#speller Jeremy Speller has been involved with the UCL Web presence since 1995. Having headed UCL Web Services for a number of years, Jeremy is now Director of Learning & Media Services which, along with the Web, covers AV, design, learning technology, multimedia and photography. Prior to becoming a full-time Web "operative", Jeremy's background was in planning and statistics at UCL and previously at the University of Birmingham. Way back when he ran the Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme at what was then CVCP. Jeremy will be giving a plenary talk entitled "It's all gone horribly wrong: disaster communication in a crisis". 51.530319 -0.126343 2010-07-13 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#steer http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#steer Damian Steer is a senior technical researcher at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology, University of Bristol. He is part of the Web Futures group, which focuses on the use of new web technologies in Higher Education. Web Futures has been particularly concerned with the semantic web / linked data, authorisation, the social web, and more recently mobile web technologies. Recent projects include: Research Revealed, which is examining the integration and exploitation of research information; Visualising China, an exploration of a historical photograph collection; and Mobile Campus Assistant, which makes existing campus-related information available to University of Bristol students via their location-aware smart phones. Damian will be giving a plenary talk entitled "Mobile Web and Campus Assistant". 51.45866 -2.603545 2010-07-13 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#sidhu http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2010/speakers/#sidhu Ranjit Sidhu Ranjit Sidhu (or SiD) is founder of statistics into Decisions (or SiD). Around 1998 Ranjit fell into the internet space whilst trying to run away from a career in law. Since then he has worked at several internet based companies, but has found his niche in analysis and helping clients understand what is going on in the internet ether and how to use that information to improve what they do. Around 4 years ago he set up SiD, Statistics into Decisions in Sydney - since then the company has, happily, found a market for its basic ethos on making information relevant and something that can be used so much so that it now works with many top blue chip companies as well as governmental clients both in the UK and Australia. SiD's second office is in Perth, Scotland. Ranjit will be giving a plenary talk entitled "'So what do you do exactly?' In challenging times justifying the roles of the web teams". 2010-07-13 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#guy http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#guy Marieke Guy is a research officer in the Community and Outreach Team at UKOLN. She has recently worked on the Good APIs project, which aimed to provide JISC and the sector with information and advice on the factors that encourage use of APIs. Last year she was involved in the JISC PoWR (Preservation of Web Resources) project. Since returning to work after her third lot of maternity leave (!) Marieke has become a remote worker and is the remote worker champion at UKOLN. In this role has worked on a number of initiatives aimed specifically at remote workers and written several articles on remote working and related technologies. She maintains a blog entitled Ramblings of a Remote Worker. 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 2009-07-28 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#kelly http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#kelly Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus - a post funded by the JISC and MLA which provides advice and support to the UK Higher and Further Education communities and the museums, libraries and archives sector on Web issues. Brian is based at UKOLN. Brian's interests include Web standards, Web accessibility, quality assurance for Web services and innovative Web developments, including collaborative Web tools. Brian chaired the final day's workshop conclusions and facilitated a parallel session entitled "Using The Social Web To Maximise Access to Resources". 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 2009-07-28 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#nolan http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#nolan Mike Nolan is Head of Web Services at Edge Hill University where he is responsible for development of external Web sites and a portal service for staff and students. Michael regularly posts about HE web development topics on the Edge Hill Web Services blog and is a regular participant (and hence speaker!) at BarCamps around the country. Mike chaired the final morning session and facilitated the Developer's Lounge Show and Tell session. 53.561597 -2.872624 2009-07-30 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#brooke http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#brooke Keith Brooke has worked for the University of Essex since 1998, first as Web Officer, then as Web Support Manager, and now as Web and Learning Technology Manager. He is currently responsible for teams covering Web development, training, support and learning technology. As if that wasn't enough, he also teaches creative writing in the University's Literature department, using a mix of traditional classroom work, workshopping, e-mail, online resources and Facebook silliness. Keith has recently published his fifth science-fiction novel: The Accord. Keith chaired the day 2 afternoon back-end session. 51.889842 0.91753 2009-07-29 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#nicholson http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#nicholson Debbie Nicholson has worked in Web and Learning Technology (WaLT) at the University of Essex for 8 years as a Web Developer, and more recently as WaLT Project Manager. Debbie is currently project managing the relocation of all the University Professional Service web content from individual office based sites, to audience based content incorporated in to the corporate site and design. Debbie chaired the day 2 morning session. 51.889842 0.91753 2009-07-29 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#currall http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#currall James Currall is a statistician who has always worked in multi-disciplinary environments. He has been involved in the support of software, ICT planning and user support and training at the University of Glasgow for nearly 20 years. His main job currently is as Director of Information Strategy where he interacts with records managers, archivists, librarians, information technologists, academics and university managers. From a position of being none of the above, James has on a number of occasions been described as an iconoclast as he does not hold dear much of the 'baggage' that these professions have accumulated through time. For two years he was on secondment to the University Learning and Teaching Centre, transforming the support of the University Virtual Learning Environment (Moodle) from a tool for enthusiasts into a well supported and managed service, during which time he was very much involved in the management and strategic planning of ICT in Learning and Teaching. James is also a Senior Research Fellow in the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), where he has, for the last ten years, been developing applied research into information issues drawing on his service and strategic experience and also more theoretical work on the nature of digital objects and the problems associated with their management, security and retention. James has been involved with the highly successful Glasgow MSc course in Information Management and Preservation since its inception, in which he teaches about the transition from storage of information on physical to digital media, the management and preservation of digital materials, information security, the role of numbers as information and a variety of other topics including risk and information management as an investment. In this latter context he was the Project Director of the espida project which developed a sustainable business-focussed model for digital preservation. James gave a plenary talk entitled "What is the Web?". 55.872253 -4.291062 2009-07-29 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#boag http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#boag aul Boag describes himself as a user experience designer. He is a founding partner of Web design agency Headscape, runs the boagworld.com community for people who run Web sites, and is the author of many articles (for the likes of .net magazine and Think Vitamin). Paul is a charismatic and entertaining speaker (e.g. .net magazine podcast, Refresh06 and Web2Live). Paul has worked extensively in the higher education sector for clients such as; City University, Brunel University, JISC and the Universities of Portsmouth, Brighton, Southampton and Lancaster. Paul also has significant experience in running online communities and has done so as far back as 1995 when he was one of the original community leaders of geocities. He wrote his dissertation on virtual communities and the disabled back in 1994. Paul gave a plenary talk entitled "Making your killer applications... killer!" and facilitated a parallel session entitled "Twittering Techniques". 2009-07-29 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#flanders http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#flanders Dave Flanders is a programme manager at JISC where he works as part of the Information Environment team. Previously he has worked at the University of London and British Library in building cutting edge technologies specific to teachers, researchers, curators, librarians, administrators and learners. His experience working as developer, usability expert and manager provides a unique perspective on how innovation occurs across teams in the modern Web Environment. David will be talking on innovation and why it is essential (especially in times of recession) for institutions to take risks. Dave gave a video presentation of a plenary talk entitled "Agile Prototyping in Academia". 2009-07-29 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#gutteridge http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#gutteridge Christopher Gutteridge has been running the Web Systems for the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, since 1997 and still isn't bored. He is also lead developer of the award winning EPrints repository software, used by hundreds of organisations. He strongly believes that tedious work should be done by computers, not people. Christopher gave a plenary talk entitled "Lightweight Web Management". 50.941448 -1.396294 2009-07-29 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#harrison http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#harrison David Harrison is Assistant Director of Information Services at Cardiff University with responsibility for Strategy and Engagement. He had previously been a Director and a Head of Service at two other universities. He is also a past-Chair of the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA) and CEO of Welsh Networking. He has an interest in how emergent technologies from external providers (especially Web 2.0 tools) can be accommodated within traditional service delivery models but more especially he is interested in the cultural change agenda that needs to be considered in ensuring successful implementation and take-up of new technologies. In this, the role of enablement and education become of paramount importance, as does the concept of partnership working both within and outside the enterprise. David gave a plenary talk entitled "Servicing 'Core' and 'Chore': A framework for understanding a Modern IT Working Environment" with Joe Nicholls. 51.495278 -3.176937 2009-07-29 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#law http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#law Derek Law has worked in several British universities and published and spoken at conferences extensively. Most of his work has been to do with the development of networked resources in higher education and with the creation of national information policy. This has been combined with an active professional life in professional organisations related to librarianship and computing. A committed internationalist he has been involved in projects and research in over forty countries. He was awarded the Barnard prize for contributions to Medical Informatics in 1993, Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1999, an honorary degree by the Sorbonne in 2000, the IFLA medal in 2003, Honorary Fellowship of CILIP in 2004 and was an OCLC Distinguished Scholar in 2006. He is currently Chair of the new JISC Services Management Company and Programme Consultant for the Libraries of the Future Horizon Scan. Derek gave a plenary talk entitled "Headlights on Dark Roads". 55.873192 -4.210339 2009-07-29 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#newman http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#newman David Newman is a Lecturer in Information Systems in the Queen's University Management School. At Queen's he has researched groupware use in co-operative learning, critical thinking in online and face-to-face discussions, and the use of the Internet by community groups. He ran a 0.5Euro million cross-border research project into electronic public consultation and then took part in the team evaluating the Irish Parliament's pilot e-consultation on the Broadcasting Bill. He is just starting a new European project which will get thousands of young people discussing Internet governance on their own Web 2.0 sites, then collect their creative ideas and feed them to national and European policy-makers. David gave a plenary talk entitled "Hub Websites for Youth Participation". 54.599716 -5.933475 2009-07-29 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#nicholls http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#nicholls Joe Nicholls is a Principal Consultant in the Strategy and Enablement Group; part of the Information Services Directorate at Cardiff University. He has over 20 years experience in Higher Education, with a background in Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, Learning Technologies and Web related services. His current work focuses on identifying technologies and methodologies that can be employed to improve the awareness, access to, and use of University services. He is particularly interested in the process of gathering and managing service requirements, the educational role of service providers and the potential of enterprise architecture as an approach to enabling organisational change. Joe gave a plenary talk entitled "Servicing 'Core' and 'Chore': A framework for understanding a Modern IT Working Environment" with David Harrison. 51.495278 -3.176937 2009-07-29 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#smethurst http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#smethurst Michael Smethurst is a Senior Information Architect at BBC Audio and Music interested in building highly linked data driven websites that are accessible for people, machines and search engines. Michael gave a plenary talk entitled "How the BBC make Web sites" with Matthew Wood. 2009-07-30 http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#wood http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/speakers/#wood Matthew Wood is Head of Software Engineering and Architecture at BBC Audio and Music. He runs a team of software engineers and client side developers and likes making things. Matthew gave a plenary talk entitled "How the BBC make Web sites" with Michael Smethurst. 2009-07-30 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/guy/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/guy/ Marieke is currently a member of the Interoperability Focus team at UKOLN. Interoperability Focus is a national activity, jointly funded by JISC of the Further and Higher Education Funding Councils and the MLA. Marieke is a member of the IWMW 2008 organising commitee and facilited workshop sessions on "Embracing Web 2.0 Technologies to Grease the Wheels of Team Cohesion" with Andy Ramsden and on "Approaches To Web Site Preservation" with Brian Kelly. 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 2008-07-22 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/kelly/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/kelly/ Brian is UK Web Focus - a post funded by the JISC and MLA which provides advice and support to the UK Higher and Further Education communities and the museums, libraries and archives sector on Web issues. Brian is based at UKOLN. Brian's interests include Web standards, Web accessibility, quality assurance for Web services and innovative Web developments, including collaborative Web tools. Brian is a member of the IWMW 2008 organising committee. 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 2008-07-24 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/mcconnell/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/mcconnell/ Mike is the manager of the University of Aberdeen's Web Team. The team comprises seven developers who are responsible for the majority of the University's web sites and web applications. The team also works for a range of commercial clients. Mike formerly worked at the Robert Gordon University as an Educational Development Officer, and as a researcher in Information Management. As a callow youth he worked at the sharp end of IT user support in the oil services industry. Mike has published on technology issues in education, Web usability and Web management. Mike gave the opening welcome speech to Aberdeen with Derrick McClure. 57.168409 -2.094183 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/bristow/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/bristow/ Rob Bristow is a Programme Manager at the Joint Information Services Committee (JISC) where he has responsibility for e-Administration as part of the Organisational Support and User Technology team. Prior to moving to JISC last year he was Information Services Manager at the Graduate School of Education at Bristol University and before that he as Web Manager at Cass Business School. Rob give a plenary talk on "Institutional Responses to Emergent Technologies - What JISC is Doing". 51.450035 -2.591679 2008-07-23 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/currall/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/currall/ James Currall has been employed in the University of Glasgow for almost 20 years. His main job currently is as Head of Learning Technology where he has overall responsibility for the University VLE. Previously he was the Director of Strategy and Planning in IT Services, where he interacted with archivists, librarians, information technologists, academics and university managers. James is also a Senior Research Fellow in the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), where he is developing applied research into information issues drawing on his service and strategic experience and also more theoretical work on the nature of digital objects and the problems associated with their management, security and retention. James gave a plenary talk on "The Tangled Web is but a Fleeting Dream ...but then again...". 54.168866 -1.087646 2008-07-23 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/hyett/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/hyett/ David Hyett is Head of Information & Records Management at the British Antarctic Survey. When he's not pushing back the frontiers of science and exploring new lands in the Antarctic, he manages information projects both across BAS and its parent organisation NERC. He has direct responsibility in BAS for Web, archives, data management and library services. David gave a plenary talk on "Web 2.0 - Whatever Happened to Web 1.0?". 52.21236 0.08804 2008-07-23 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/mcclure/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/mcclure/ Derrick McClure is a Senior Lecturer in the English School of Language & Literature at the University of Aberdeen. Derrick gave the opening address. 57.168409 -2.094183 2008-07-22 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/mcintosh/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/mcintosh/ Ewan McIntosh is a teacher and social media specialist based in the Edinburgh area. He advises on how social media can be harnessed for public service and education management and used to improve learning. His edu.blog shows how social software is not just a gimmick and can provide exciting opportunities for learning. Ewan gave a plenary talk on "Unleashing the Tribe". 55.858984 -4.260635 2008-07-24 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/neylon/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/neylon/ Cameron Neylon commenced a joint appointment as Senior Scientist in Biomolecular Sciences at the ISIS Pulsed Neutron and Muon Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in 2005. Since then, in collaboration with Jeremy Frey (University of Southampton) he has been involved in the development and optimisation of blog based electronic notebook systems for the biochemistry laboratories and the development of systems for monitoring and capturing data from the laboratory, the so-called 'Blogging Lab'. Through this work he has become a prominent member of the international community advocating the adoption of a more open approach to research practice. His group is currently moving to a fully Open Notebook approach where the research worker's laboratory notebook is made public as it being recorded. This process is being recorded and analysed in his Blog, Science in the Open. Cameron gave a plenary talk on "Science in the You Tube Age: How Web Based Tools are Enabling Open Research Practice". 50.941989 -1.40213 2008-07-22 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/souttar/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/souttar/ James Souttar has been part of the Precedent team since its inception in 1989. Prior to working at Precedent, he worked for the corporate identity specialists Wolff Olins. His area of expertise is branding and communications within the education sector specialising in working for universities: Cambridge University, Universities of Sheffield, Southampton and Reading, Oxford Brookes, Middlesex and Hertfordshire. James extensive experience has led him to be invited to write and lecture extensively on both sides of the Atlantic. For two years he was consultant lecturer at Central Saint Martins (now part of the University of the Arts). He also taught at the Lincoln College of Art (now part of the University of Lincoln) and Epsom School of Art. In addition, both he and a colleague were invited to give a week long charrette to the School of Communication at Virginia Commonwealth University. James gave a plenary talk on "Web 2.0 and Brand: Theory and Practice" and facilitated a workshop on "Using Web 2.0 Technologies to Support a Brand Focused Marketing Strategy". 2008-07-22 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/taylor/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/taylor/ Stephanie Taylor has over fourteen years experience as an information professional. She is currently working on the JISC-funded Repository Support Project (RSP) which aims to assist academic institutions to develop a deployed network of inter-operable repositories for academic papers, learning materials and research data across the UK. The RSP delivers practical advice to English and Welsh HEI's regarding development, implementation and management of these repositories. Stephanie gave a plenary talk on "Institutional Repositories: Asset or Obstacle?". 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 2008-07-23 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/wildish/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2008/speakers/wildish/ Alison Wildish is an advocate of institutions embracing third party services to support their marketing/communications initiatives and has an active interest in the opportunities offered by personalisation and user owned technologies. Heading up the Web Services team at the University of Bath she manages the central Web team and is responsible for the strategic direction of University Web services. She formerly held the same position at Edge Hill University where she led projects which include; the University portal project and the development of the Applicant Community Web site (winner of a UCISA best practice award). Alison blogs at "http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/webservices". Alison gave a plenary talk on "Look Who's Talking Now ...". 51.378156076494754 -2.3296165466308594 2008-07-23 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#allen2 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#allen2 Isabel Allen, independent consultant, former head of eBusiness, Nottingham Trent University. Isabel participated in the panel session on "Dealing with the Commercial World: Saviour or Satan?" 53.9484 -1.0536 2007-07-18 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#barr http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#barr Jeff Barr is the Senior Manager of Web Services Evangelism for Amazon Web Services. He manages a team consisting of himself and three other evangelists and their goal is to create excitment and awareness for the Amazon Web Services. Jeff gave a plenary talk on "Building Highly Scalable Web Applications". 47.59411 -122.316048 2007-07-18 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#boag http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#boag Paul Boag describes himself as a user experience designer. He is a founding partner of Web design agency Headscape, runs the boagworld.com community for people who run Web sites, and is the author of many articles (for the likes of .net magazine and Think Vitamin). Paul gave a plenary talk on "Social Participation in Student Recruitment" and participated in the panel session on Dealing with the "Commercial World: Saviour or Satan?" http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#clune http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#clune Arthur Clune works at the University of York as an IT Security Specialist, but is also a member of the UK Honeynet Project. In the latter role he is involved in developing the Honeynet Project's "Honeymine" data analysis tool and in helping with other aspects of Honeynet development. Arthur gave a plenary talk on "Trends in Web Attacks". 53.9484 -1.0536 2007-07-17 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#doyle http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#doyle Keith Doyle is Web Content Architect at the University of Salford. He is also responsible for the intranet framework, and has direct involvement with the University intranet home pages. Keith give a plenary talk on "The Promise of Information Architecture" and facilitated a workshop session on "How Do I Implement Enterprise Information Architecture?" 53.489322 -2.271166 2007-07-17 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#harrison http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#harrison John Harrison is the CEO of Maxsi. Maxsi are developers of eVisit Analyst, a range of advanced Web site analysis tools used by universities such as Northumbria and Exeter. John participated in the panel session on "Dealing with the Commercial World: Saviour or Satan?" http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#hulme http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#hulme Adam Hulme is an Account Manager for Maxsi. Maxsi are developers of eVisit Analyst, a range of advanced Web site analysis tools used by universities such as Northumbria and Exeter. Adam participated in the panel session on "Dealing with the Commercial World: Saviour or Satan?" http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#kelly2 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#kelly2 Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus - a post funded by the JISC and MLA which provides advice and support to the UK Higher and Further Education communities and the museums, libraries and archives sector on Web issues. Brian is based at UKOLN. Brian participated in the panel session on "Dealing with the Commercial World: Saviour or Satan?" and facilitated a workshop session on "Building The Web Management Community" with Steven Warburton. 51.366074 -2.329445 2007-07-18 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#mclellan http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#mclellan Drew McLellan has been hacking on the Web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he's spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now works as a Web Developer for Yahoo! Europe in London, UK. Drew gave a plenary talk on "Can Your Web Site Be Your API?". 51.5217 -0.7177 2007-07-17 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#reader http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#reader Peter Reader is Director of Marketing and Communications at the University of Bath; his current responsibilities include Web, media relations, marketing strategy and internal communications. Peter gave a plenary talk on "Marketing Man takes off his Tie: Customers, Communities and Communication". 51.366074 -2.329445 2007-07-17 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#stephenson http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#stephenson Dr Miranda Stephenson was heavily involved in establishing the National Science Learning Centre which is based on the University of York campus. Miranda welcomed delegates to the University of York at the start of the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2007 event. 53.9484 -1.0536 2007-07-16 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#wildish http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#wildish Alison Wildish is Head of Web Services at Edge Hill University where, for the past seven years, she has led a team responsible for the development of the corporate Web site(s), intranet sites and Web services. Prior to joining Edge Hill, Alison was developing Web applications in the commercial sector. Most recently Alison has led the University portal project, the development of applicant and community Web sites and has contributed to IDM and Single Sign-On implementations. Alison has an active interest in the opportunities offered by personalisation and user owned technologies and gave a plenary talk on "Let the Students do the Talking...." 53.561597 -2.872624 2007-07-16 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#warburton http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2007/speakers/#warburton Steven Warburton is an e-learning ICT manager at King's College London with a wealth of experience in the implementation and evaluation of learning technology within a variety of educational settings. He has managed both technical and pedagogically driven e-learning projects that have included work on personal publishing tools, social software, virtual learning environments, and the development of blended teaching programmes. Steven gave a plenary talk on "What does 'Community of Practice' mean for Institutional Web Managers?". 51.512455 -0.120163 2007-07-16 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#forbes-pitt http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#forbes-pitt Kate Forbes-Pitt has 15 years experience of working with electronic document management systems. She started working with paper based systems, electronically generated, at London Borough of Lambeth in 1991. She joined the LSE in 1999 to procure and implement a new electronic document management system. In addition, during the last 15 years, she has completed two degrees at LSE, and now pursues document and content management as areas of academic research. She has spoken about document management at many conferences, has recently published on the structure of documents and content and is currently researching the effects of electronic documents on work ownership and identity. Kate gave a plenary talk on "Delivering Information: Document vs. Content". Kate can be contacted at K.Forbes-Pitt@lse.ac.uk 51.517329 -0.116708 2006-06-15 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#gilbey http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#gilbey John Gilbey is the Institute QA Manager for IGER and a honorary lecturer in the department of Computer Science, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Before moving into strategic development, John Gilbey managed an IT service for 400 scientists, post-graduates and administrators. A Fellow of the British Computer Society, he teaches a course in Internet Services Administration for the Department of Computer Science at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. John gave a plenary talk on "Managing Standards - Delivering a Quality Assured Web Environment". John can be contacted at john.gilbey@bbsrc.ac.uk. 52.411739 -4.053955 2006-06-15 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#mcconnell http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#mcconnell Mike McConnell is the Web Team Manager of the University of Aberdeen's Web Design Unit and currently manages a team of six staff who are responsible for the University's central Web presence, and the maintenance of certain departments and sections across the institution. Mike formerly worked at the Robert Gordon University as an Educational Development Officer, and as a researcher in Information Science. Prior to that he worked at the sharp end of IT user support in the oil services industry. Mike has published on technology issues in education, Web usability and produced a number of educational Web applications. Mike participated in a debate on "CMS: Challenging the Consensus". Mike can be contacted at m.mcconnell@abdn.ac.uk. 57.166641 -2.102251 2006-06-16 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#metcalfe http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#metcalfe Randy Metcalfe is the manager of OSS Watch, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) national advisory service on free and open source software for UK further and higher education. Randy concentrates his efforts on raising the level of awareness of free and open source fundamentals amongst senior IT decision-makers in UK colleges and universities. He also spends a considerable amount of time exploring aspects of community building prevalent within open source development projects. Years ago, he lived a different life as an academic philosopher researching the nature of disagreement in moral theory. Randy gave a plenary talk on "What Does Openness Mean to the Web Manager?" with Brian Kelly. Randy can be contacted at info@oss-watch.ac.uk. 51.759480 -1.260209 2006-06-15 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#middleton http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#middleton Iain Middleton is a lecturer in E-Business and ICT at the Robert Gordon University. He played a co-ordinating role in RGU's 2005 site-wide Web redevelopment - the second time he has done so, having previously been Web Editor when the site moved to a CMS in 2000. In the intervening years he worked at the University of Aberdeen's Learning Technology Unit, developing educational Web sites and project managing the development of staff and student portals. He has also been a researcher and a help desk slave. Iain is a writer for Faulkner Information Services and has published on help desks and user support, Web strategies and educational technology. Iain participated in a debate on "CMS: Challenging the Consensus". Iain can be contacted via http://www.imiddleton.com/?page=contact. 57.119934 -2.133279 2006-06-16 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#miller http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#miller Paul Miller is a technology evangelist for Talis. Paul joined Talis in September 2005 from the CIE, where as Director he was instrumental in scoping policy and attracting new members such as the BBC, National Library of Scotland and English Heritage to this group of UK public sector organisations. Previously, Paul worked at UKOLN where he was active in a range of cross-domain standardisation and advocacy activities, and before that he was Collections Manager at the Archaeology Data Service. At Talis, Paul is exploring new models of collaboration and identifying further areas in which our technology or knowledge would be of value. Paul has a Doctorate in Archaeology from the University of York. Paul spoke in a panel session on Web 2.0. Paul can be contacted at Paul.Miller@talis.com. 2006-06-15 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#kelly http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#kelly Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus - a post funded by the JISC and MLA which provides advice and support to the UK Higher and Further Education communities and the museums, libraries and archives sector on Web issues. Brian is based at UKOLN. Brian's interests include Web standards, Web accessibility, quality assurance for Web services and innovative Web developments, including collaborative Web tools. Brian gave a plenary talk on "What Does Openness Mean to the Web Manager?" with Randy Metcalfe and facilitating a parallel session on "Web 2.0: Addressing Institutional Barriers" with Lawrie Phipps. Brian can be contacted at b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk. 51.366074 -2.329445 2006-06-15 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#pope http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#pope Stephen Pope works for Eduserv and is a R&D CMS Specialist. Stephen participated in a debate on "CMS: Challenging the Consensus". Stephen can be contacted at stephen.pope@eduserv.org.uk. 51.385415 -2.364764 2006-06-16 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#powell http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#powell Andy Powell is Head of Development at the Eduserv Foundation, a Bath-based charity that supports the effective use of ICT in education. As a member of Bath University Computing Services he was the first 'webmaster' at the University of Bath, moving in 1996 to UKOLN where he was involved in a number of European and JISC funded 'digital library' projects. More recently, Andy has liaised closely with the JISC, advising them on the standards and protocols needed to support e-learning and e-research, notably through the development of the JISC Information Environment and the e-Framework for Education and Research. Andy gave a plenary talk on "Reflections on 10 years of the Institutional Web". Andy can be contacted at andy.powell@eduserv.org.uk. 51.385415 -2.364764 2006-06-16 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#scott http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#scott Chris Scott is one of the three founders of Headscape. He has 17 years experience of working in IT and new media, mainly in project management, consulting and business development roles. Chris has worked both in the Higher Education sector, including as a founder of a highly successful IT consulting unit at the University of Southampton, and for many of Headscape's HE sector clients. Professionalism and quality of service are at the heart of Chris's vision for Headscape. His experience of working with organisations including Boots the Chemist, ICI, Lloyds TSB, Reuters, Somerfield Stores, The National Trust and Unilever have helped set Headscape's standards. Chris gave a plenary talk on Real World Emerging Technologies. Chris can be contacted at chris.scott@headscape.co.uk. 2006-06-14 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#sidhu http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#sidhu Ranjit Sidhu is a Sitestat Account Manager for Nedstat, European leader in Web site analytics. Nedstat are the Gold Sponsors for this year's workshop. Ranjit has been at Nedstat since the end of 2004, working closely with the University Sector to understand their Web analytics requirements. He now account manages over 20 UK universities that are using Sitestat to improve their online performance. He played an important role in the creation of benchmarking statistics for the university sector (Sector Statistics) and Nedstat's 'Get more online Education' free event in April 2006. Previously, Ranjit attained a law degree at University of Leeds and LPC from College of Law. He has worked within the Education and Government sector including Kings College University and The Western Austalian Governement. Ranjit gave a plenary talk on "Sector Stats". Ranjit can be contacted at R.Sidhu@nedstat.com. 2006-06-15 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#tintori http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#tintori Piero Tintori is founder and CEO of TERMINALFOUR, one of the IWMW 2006 workshop sponsors. Founded in 1996, TERMINALFOUR is a specialist software company providing CMS and ECM solutions. TERMINALFOUR's CMS/ECM platform Site Manager has achieved market leading position in Higher Education in the UK and Ireland. Piero has had personal involvement in 14 Higher Education CMS projects. Piero participated in a debate on "CMS: Challenging the Consensus". Piero can be contacted at piero.tintori@terminalfour.com. 2006-06-16 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#webb http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#webb Michael Webb is Head of IT and Media Services at the University of Wales, Newport. He joined Newport in 2003, and has worked in Higher Education for 15 years. A substantial part of Michael's career has been focussed on making innovative use of Internet technologies to support and improve the student experience, both in a technical and strategic role. Michael gave a plenary talk on "Developing a Web 2.0 Strategy". Michael can be contacted at michael.webb@newport.ac.uk. 51.591363 -2.998238 2006-06-14 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#wilson http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2006/speakers/#wilson Scott Wilson works for CETIS. He was initially responsible for turning the CETIS site into THE portal for learning technology standards. Scott is an Assistant Director of CETIS, and has a special interest in standards for infrastructure and enterprise integration. Scott spoke in a panel session on Web 2.0. Scott can be contacted at s.wilson@bangor.ac.uk. 53.228723 -4.131246 2006-06-15 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#bartlett http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#bartlett Ian Bartlett has worked in the student recruitment field at UCL since 1992. Based in the Department of Educational Liaison, which covers all aspects of UK and international student recruitment from first point-of-contact up to the point of admission, Ian's role is to structure, develop and maintain the student recruitment section of the UCL Web site (see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/. By working closely with the student recruitment publications team at UCL (with whom he shares an office), he is able to use the ready-audited text of printed publications in order to ensure that the content of the Prospective Students site is accurate and regularly updated. However, with the growing volume of information now expected and needed by prospective students, he is keen to ensure efficient use of staff resources and is working with Jeremy Speller on a system of parallel publishing tied in with a CMS interface to speed production of printed and Web materials. Ian and his colleague Jeremy Speller gave a plenary talk on "Publish and Be Damned: Re-purposing in the Real World". 51.523223 -0.133223 2005-07-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#clark http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#clark Professor Mark Clark became the Director of Information Systems at The Victoria University of Manchester in September 2001 and his role encompasses responsibilities for all University IS as well as providing hosting for the Research Council's National Supercomputing Service, CSAR, and the JISC's National Data Services incorporating MIMAS, as well as many other services. With the merger of the old Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST, Mark was appointed as Director of Information Systems, and has overseen the restructuring of computing support for the new institution, The University of Manchester, incorporated in October 2004. Previously Mark held the post of Director of Academic Information Systems at the University of Salford for six years (a converged service where he had responsibility for both Library and Computing). Prior to that he was Director of Computing at the University of Essex where he also held a Senior Lectureship in the Department of Electrical Systems Engineering, researching and teaching in the area of networks and computing systems. Mark holds a BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering (Digital Systems and Telecommunications), and his PhD subject was speech coding using digital adaptive delta modulation. Mark was invited to join the UKERNA Board as HEFCE nominated Director; he also is the Chair of Internet Facilitators Ltd and of Net North West Ltd. Mark gave a plenary talk on "Challenges at The University of Manchester arising from Project UNITY". 53.466195 -2.233486 2005-07-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#cox http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#cox Andrew Cox is conducting a PhD in the Research School of Informatics, Loughborough University. He was previously a manager of the digital library research centre, LITC, at South Bank University. Andrew took part in a panel session on "The Web Management Community: Present and Future" with Duncan Ireland and Brian Kelly. Andrew can be contacted at A.M.Cox AT lboro.ac.uk. 51.2962 1.067653 2005-07-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#banbery http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#banbery Miles Banbery is the Web Editor at the University of Kent. Miles manages the University Web Team, a small group of people within Communications & Development at the University of Kent. Communications & Development's remit covers internal communications, corporate publications (largely student recruitment support), congregations (graduation ceremonies) and events, alumni relations, press and media relations and development and fund raising. Miles is a member of the Programme Committee and was chair of the final morning including the panel session on "Responding To The CMS Challenge". Contact details in hCard format Miles Banbery can be contacted at m.e.c.banbery AT kent.ac.uk 51.520493 -0.117416 2005-07-08 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#dale http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#dale John Dale is the head of development at e-lab, University of Warwick. He has overseen the introduction of several Web applications, including content management, collaboration software, authentication services and more. John gave a plenary talk on "University blogging: what happens when everyone can publish?". John can be contacted at j.dale AT warwick.ac.uk 55.862599 -4.246642 2005-07-06 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#emmott http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#emmott Stephen Emmott is the Head of Web Services at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) where he leads a team of 10 delivering the LSE's Web site, portal ("LSE for You") and document management services. Prior to this he was the Editor of Web Services at King's College London (1997 to 2000) and has worked a total of 9 years in higher education and 3 years in industry. His background is in cognitive science and he is currently leading an initiative to adopt PRINCE2 at LSE. Stephen gave a plenary talk on "Customers, Suppliers, and the Need for Partnerships". Stephen can be contacted at stephen.emmott AT lse.ac.uk 51.517329 -0.116708 2005-07-06 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#franklin http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#franklin Tom Franklin runs Franklin Consulting which offers consultancy services in educational technology. His particular interests are in portals, educational technology standards and VLEs and MLEs. He is technical advisor to the Higher Education Academy's Connects portal, where his work has included the selection and definition of appropriate standards and developing appropriate techniques for developing the channels in Web sites and portals. Franklin gave a plenary talk on "There Is No Such Thing As A Silver Bullet: CMS And Portals Will Not Solve Your Problems!" and facilitated a workshop session on "Embedding Third Party Services in Web Sites and Portals - From Links to WSRP the Pros and Cons". Tom can be contacted at tom AT franklin-consulting.co.uk 2005-07-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#ireland http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#ireland Duncan Ireland has been in the Internet Officer role at the University of Strathclyde since late 2002. His time is largely taken up with rolling out the T4 Sitemanager CMS (see http://www.strath.ac.uk/terminalfour/). Before arriving in academia, Duncan could be found at Scottish Amicable (latterly Prudential) where he worked on a project to implement the MediaSurface CMS. Prior to that he worked for BAE Systems where he saw the introduction of standard desktops, internet access and an Intranet. His leisure time is largely spent learning how to duck(!) while training with Caledonian Muay Thai in Glasgow (see http://www.caledonianmuaythai.co.uk/) - he refutes any suggestion that this training was deliberately undertaken to bring more folk round to his way of thinking in meetings. Duncan took part a panel session on "Whose Web Is It Anyway?" with Andrew Cox and Brian Kelly. Duncan can be contacted at Duncan.Ireland AT strath.ac.uk 55.864524 -4.246645 2005-07-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#tintori http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#tintori Piero Tintori is founder and CEO of TERMINALFOUR, one of the IWMW 2005 workshop sponsors. Founded in 1996, TERMINALFOUR is a specialist software company providing CMS and ECM solutions. TERMINALFOUR's CMS/ECM platform Site Manager has achieved market leading position in Higher Education in the UK and Ireland. Piero has had personal involvement in 14 Higher Education CMS projects. Piero gave a talk about content management systems in the JISC Services And Vendor Presentations session and took part in the panel session on Responding To The CMS Challenge. 2005-07-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#speller http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#speller Jeremy Speller has been involved with the UCL Web presence since 1995 and is now Head of Web Services. He is currently working on the migration of UCL's central materials to a Zope/Silva-based CMS and is taking forward development of an enterprise portal. Jeremy is also involved with development of services to provide the student experience of the future and has particular interest in the use of handheld and mobile devices. Prior to becoming a full-time Web "operative", Jeremy's background was in planning and statistics at UCL and previously at the University of Birmingham. Way back when he ran the Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme at what was then CVCP. Jeremy and his colleague Ian Bartlett gave a plenary talk on "Publish and Be Damned: Re-purposing in the Real World". Jeremy can be contacted at j.speller AT ucl.ac.uk 51.523223 -0.133223 2005-07-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#sweeney http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2005/speakers/#sweeney David Sweeney is the Vice-Principal, (Communications, Enterprise & Research) at Royal Holloway, University of London. David gave a plenary talk on "Sky High or Free Fall - All Aboard the Web Rollercoaster". 51.42531 -0.566987 2005-07-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#kelly http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#kelly Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus - a post funded by the JISC and MLA which provides advice and support to the UK Higher and Further Education communities and the museums, libraries and archives sector on Web issues. Brian is based at UKOLN. Brian has been chair of the programme committee for the Institutional Web Management Workshop series since he established the event in 1997. Brian's interests include Web standards, technical architectures for Web services and innovative Web developments. Brian is chair of the Programme Committee and a member of the Organising Committee. Brian gave be giving a plenary talk on "Life After Email: Strategies For Collaboration in the 21st Century", contributed with Lawrie Phipps to the talk on "Beyond Web Accessibility: Providing A Holistic User Experience", and co-facilitated a workshop session on "QA For Web sites - What Goes Wrong And How Can We Prevent It?" with Amanda Closier. 51.366074 -2.329445 2004-07-28 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#supple http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#supple David Supple is manager of the Corporate Web team at the University of Birmingham and manager of the University's Institutional Portal Project. His teams remit is the development of the site to facilitate the e-business and e-learning aims of the institution, and the delivery of a Web-enabled organisational vision. In real terms this means the re-corporatization of the University Web site, through a focussed Web strategy, common infrastructures and templates, centralised hardware, adequate support and a customer focussed internal sales process to help convince users to migrate back to the centre. The Web Team uses mostly Microsoft products (a challenge in itself), with occasional forays into MySQL and Unix just to keep us sane. Over the coming year, David's focus will be on developing a major portal environment for the University, something that has been in planning for almost 2 years now, and he is keen to engage with the HE community on this new type of development to help maximise the potential of this technology. David is also interested in Web strategy in general and the development of organisational structures and processes as they respond to a more electronic view of the world. David Supple gave a plenary talk on "Trials, Trips and Tribulations of an Integrated Web Strategy". 52.452505 -1.928573 2004-07-27 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#fraser-krauss http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#fraser-krauss Heidi Fraser-Krauss is the Director of Business Improvements (BI) at the University of St Andrews. BI is a relatively new Unit which combines the traditional MIS function with project management and process analysis/re engineering expertise. Heidi has a background in management and has worked on a number of research projects aimed at improving communication and business processes in manufacturing companies. Before she took up her current post she was part of the team who introduced e-business to the University of St Andrews. Heidi gave a plenary talk on "E-business: Why Join In?" and facilitated a workshop session on "From Swipe Card Machine to the Computer Screen" both jointly with Ester Ruskuc. 56.33876 -2.816234 2004-07-27 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#ruskuc http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#ruskuc Ester Ruskuc is a Project Manager in Business Improvements of the University of St Andrews. Ester has a background in IT and a wide ranging experience of many aspects of higher education administration, information flow, data management and administrative systems. She is involved, and has a keen interest in, the management of IT related projects, business process re-engineering and change management. Ester co-presentated a plenary talk on "E-business: Why Join In?" and co-facilitated a workshop session with Heidi Fraser-Krauss on "From Swipe Card Machine to the Computer Screen". 56.33876 -2.816234 2004-07-27 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#brown http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#brown Tony Brown is a Web developer at PPARC (the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council), where he responsible for the development, hosting and running of Web, Intranet and Extranet applications. He has grappled with computers since 1987, starting on mainframes moving through client server to Web-based applications. For the last ten years he has specialised in information retrieval and display, and, for reasons he still can't work out, content mangement. For purely pragmatic reasons he has sold his soul to Microsoft, and has an ongoing love/hate relationship with .NET. Tony gave a plenary talk jointly with Matt Thrower on "Socrates: Building an Intranet for the UK Research Councils". 51.569014 -1.774464 2004-07-28 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#thrower http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#thrower Matt Thrower has been a web developer at PPARC since 2001 and has still not left. He originally learnt to program on a ZX Spectrum, then forgot all about computers and went and worked in a laboratory. Eventually, he was saved by the increased popularity of the World Wide Web since that looked a lot more fun that E.Coli. Matt will eulogise for hours about the FileSystem object, and is still cross at Microsoft for leaving it out of dotNET. Matt gave a plenary talk jointly with Tony Brown on "Socrates: Building an Intranet for the UK Research Councils". 51.569014 -1.774464 2004-07-28 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#bulley http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#bulley Stephen Bulley is Head of MIS at the London School of Economics and Political Science. MIS is part of the Business Systems & Services Division, which also includes Web Services, Telecoms, Timetables, Conferences & Events and provides IT support to the School's administrative departments. Stephen runs the front line and application support teams for BSS, as well as the Oracle and Unix/Linux systems team. He has worked in IT since 1991 and as an MIS Manager since 1997 from a background as an Oracle DBA; first in FE at South East Essex College and then at the LSE. He has been involved from the start with the LSE for You student & staff portal and recently led an evaluation for a portal product to help take this project to the next stage. Stephen gave a plenary talk on "LSE for You: From Innovation to Realism and Beyond". 51.517329 -0.116708 2004-07-28 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#rahtz http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#rahtz Sebastian Rahtz is normally Information Manager for Oxford University Computing Services, but is currently seconded part-time to manage the JISC Open Source Advisory Service (OSS Watch). As this role lets him play with open source software a lot, and reject MS Word attachments with a clear conscience, he is having fun. Sebastian also serves as a member of the Board of Directors, and Technical Council, of the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) and recommends TEI markup to anyone who stays around long enough to listen. Sebastian gave a plenary talk on "Beyond Free Beer: Is Using Open Source A Matter Of Choosing Software or Joining A Political Movement?" and co-facilitated a workshop session on "Being Open Source" with Randy Metcalfe. Sebastian can be contacted at sebastian.rahtz AT computing-services 51.755329 -1.261454 2004-07-28 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#hartland http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#hartland Dave Hartland is the manager of Netskills, a national training and staff development service based at Newcastle University and partly funded by the JISC. Netskills provides approximately 400 workshops per year primarily to the Higher and Further education and public library sectors in Internet technologies, Web service management, e-learning and information skills. The training materials developed for these workshops are made available via a licence system to universities and colleges. Netskills also runs accredited Professional Development Certificates in conjunction with the workshop programme. David is a member of the UCISA Staff development Group and the BIOME (Health and Life Sciences Information Gateway) Steering Group. He has run workshops and training courses for the Internet Society's developing countries programme and was for 5 years the chair of the Information Systems and User Services Working Group for TERENA (Trans-European Research and Education Network Association) Dave gave a plenary talk on "Strategic Staff Development for the Web-enabled Organisation". 54.98281 -1.61396 2004-07-29 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#phipps http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2004/speakers/#phipps Lawrie Phipps is the TechDis Senior Advisor for Higher Education. His background is in staff development and e-learning, designing and developing virtual field trips and courses and supporting science lecturers in learning and teaching. Lawrie is also a Visiting Fellow at the Special Needs Computing Research Unit at the University of Teesside. The research group is looking at a range of issues including disability and mobile learning, the use of multimedia to support disabilities, computer assisted assessment and the development of Virtual Learning Environments to support students with learning difficulties. 53.9575 -1.071339 2004-07-28 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/committee/#kelly http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/committee/#kelly 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 is based at UKOLN. Brian has been chair of the organising committees for the Institutional Web Management Workshop series since he established the event in 1997. Brian's interests include Web standards, technical architectures for Web services and innovative Web developments. Brian is chair of the Programme Committee and a member of the Organising Committee. 51.366074 -2.329445 2003-07-12 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#melville http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#melville Professor David Melville began his career as a lecturer in Physics at The University of Southampton and carried out research on magnetism and magnetic materials as well as bio and medical physics. He served on and was chairman of a number of research councils and Higher Education Funding Council Committees. David Melville went on to become Vice Rector of Lancashire Polytechnic and Vice-Chancellor Middlesex University. During this period he also served as Vice-Chairman of the Committee for Vice-Chancellors and Principals (now Universities UK) and Chairman of its Longer Term Strategy Group. In 1996 he became Chief Executive of the Further Education Funding Council. In this role he was responsible to Parliament for the allocation of funding of over #3 billion per annum to the further education sector. He was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kent at Canterbury in September 2001. He was educated at Sheffield and Columbia Universities and has Honorary Degrees from Sheffield, Middlesex, Derby and Southampton Universities. He was made a CBE for services to education in 2001. Professor Melville gave the opening keynote plenary talk on "The Web Of Higher And Further Education: How To Deal With The Spiders". 51.298342 1.067648 2003-07-11 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#beckett http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#beckett Dave Beckett is a senior technical researcher at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology (ILRT), University of Bristol working on Semantic Web and web technology research, development and standardisation. He has been developing, researching and deploying Internet research discovery, search and metadata systems since 1993 and based at the ILRT since 2000. Dave presently works on the EU-funded IST project Semantic Web Advanced Development Europe (SWAD-Europe) on deploying and developing practical applications and approaches for this new technology. As part of this he does standardisation work on the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and on the Resource Description Framework (RDF), the foundation work of the W3C Semantic Web Activity. Dave edits two of the RDF specifications in development. Dave Beckett gave the opening keynote plenary talk on day 2 on "The Semantic Web". 51.298342 1.067648 2003-07-12 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#burke http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#burke John Burke of JISC InfoNET is the FE Liaison Manager with JISCinfoNet. He has worked within the Further Education Sector since 1985 with much of that time having been involved with Management Information Systems, in addition to having managed and developed the IT Network and infrastructure at Myerscough College for over three years. He was instrumental in training and promoting good practice in MIS in Lancashire in the early days of College MIS and regionally has chaired the NW CMIS Group since 1996. He became Associate Chair of the National CMIS Board in 1994, helping to build on the success of that body since its merger with NAITFE to form the National Information and Learning Technologies Association (NILTA). John has participated as a member of NILTA's CIS Operations Committee, acted as North West Representative to NILTA's Council and has contributed numerous articles to their publications. John was an early adopter of the Internet and Intranet as a tool for dissemination and has spoken on the subject at several conferences and seminars. He has also spoken on the subject of e-Learning and was involved in the JISC MIS/MLE Interoperability Study. He received the NILTA Award for outstanding contribution to the development of College Information Systems in 1999. John gave a plenary talk on "JISCinfoNet: Helping Web Managers Support Our Users". 2003-07-11 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#supple http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#supple David Supple is manager of the Corporate Web team at the University of Birmingham and manager of the University's Institutional Portal Project. His teams remit is the development of the site to facilitate the e-business and e-learning aims of the institution, and the delivery of a Web-enabled organisational vision. In real terms this means the re-corporatization of the University Web site, through a focussed Web strategy, common infrastructures and templates, centralised hardware, adequate support and a customer focussed internal sales process to help convince users to migrate back to the centre. The Web Team uses mostly Microsoft products (a challenge in itself), with occasional forays into MySQL and Unix just to keep us sane. Over the coming year, David's focus will be on developing a major portal environment for the University, something that has been in planning for almost 2 years now, and he is keen to engage with the HE community on this new type of development to help maximise the potential of this technology. David is also interested in Web strategy in general and the development of organisational structures and processes as they respond to a more electronic view of the world. David Supple gave a plenary talk on Web Strategies: Bridging a Continent. 52.452505 -1.928573 2003-07-11 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#agarwal http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#agarwal Sarah Agarwal is a consultant Project Manager, specialising in user-centred Web and application development. She has worked for the Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol since 2002. During that time, she's worked on a variety of internal and external development projects, using user-centred design techniques with particular effect in politically difficult and organisationally complex developments. Sarah has previously worked in the field of intranets, knowledge management, usability and information science for other not-for-profit organisations, such as the BBC and the Environment Agency. She has written articles and given seminars on Web-related subjects such as design, information architecture, usability, end-user surveying and change management issues. Sarah Agarwal gave a plenary talk on "Focussing On Users: Gathering Users' Requirements". 51.460264 -2.602515 2003-07-11 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#mcaleese http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#mcaleese Gareth McAleese is Web Development Manager within the Department of Public Affairs at the University of Ulster where he has been for the last six years. He is responsible for the technical management and development of the University of Ulster Web service. Gareth gave a joint plenary talk with Ricky Rankin on "Content Management - Buy or Build?". 54.605259 -5.929184 2003-07-12 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#rankin http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#rankin Ricky Rankin is a Principal Analyst within Information Services at Queen's University Belfast. For three years he was manager of the Computer Mediated Communications group with responsibility for the email and www services of the University. He is currently involved in two projects: Queen's Online Project which seeks to ensure that the key services and information used by University personnel are made accessible through an integrated Web environment. Content Management System which involves the selection and implementation of CMS to enable information owners to author for the Web. Ricky gace a joint plenary talk with Gareth McAleese on "Content Management - Buy or Build?". 54.585916 -5.93467 2003-07-12 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#musgrave http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#musgrave Steve Musgrave is a PhD research student involved in Telematic research into Community Portals. He is a full time IT Manager at Blackpool and the Fylde College in Lancashire. Formerly a merchant navy Radio/Electronics Officer and design engineer with IMR/ITT. Beyond the professional qualifications he holds a B.Sc (Hons) in Electronics with Computing; an MSc in Information Technology and a post graduate Diploma in Management of Education. With a strong background in the Further Education sector as a Principal Lecturer and Head of Division of Communication Engineering, he transferred to a position in IT Management with Blackpool and The Fylde College to develop and implement a unified college-wide electronic network interlinking the campus sites, buildings and outreach centres. Implementation of a Virtual Learning Environment is currently on-going. Direct personal experience of managing multi-million pound IT projects has been gained through project management of Further Education Funding Council (FEFC) projects, notably the ICT centred 'Regional Open System for Education' project and SIGMA projects, giving network inter/intra connectivity between Colleges in a virtual private network. Recent experience of Community Portal planning, design and implementation has arisen through the partnership of Blackpool Borough Council, Blackpool and The Fylde College, and Telewest, in feasibility studies and planning of a 'Broadband Interactive Grid' public sector Community Network strategy for the Fylde Coast of Lancashire. Representation at national level includes membership of the JISC Information Environment Committee (JCIE) and NILTA Technical Committee. Steve gave a plenary talk on "Community Portals - A False Dawn Over The Field of Dreams?". 53.840779 -3.05351 2003-07-12 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#armellini http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#armellini Dr. Alejandro Armellini is a Learning Technologist in the Unit for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching, at the University of Kent. He holds a Master in Education (Educational Technology and TESOL) from the University of Manchester and a PhD in Language Studies from Canterbury Christ Church University College. He has worked extensively in the fields of teacher development, open and distance education, educational technology and e-learning, as well as educational research methods, both in the UK and in Uruguay. He has also managed projects co-funded by the Inter-American Development Bank and ORT Uruguay University. He has taught at BA, Diploma and Master's levels in the UK and Latin America. His current activities include: Implementation of the university's e-learning strategy Responsibility for development and delivery of the Learning Technology module within the PGCHE WebCT administration and staff development. Alejandro Armellini gave a plenary talk on "E-learning: The Strategy Continuum". 51.298342 1.067648 2003-07-12 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#stiles http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#stiles Mark Stiles is Professor of Technology Supported Learning at Staffordshire University. In his role as Head of Learning Development and Innovation, he is charged with leading "eLearning" across the institution. Staffordshire have been using VLEs for some five years, including the COSE VLE which was developed at Staffordshire and is now available as a free binary/open source product. Mark has led numerous projects relating to the technical, strategic, and educational aspects of the use of VLEs/MLEs and is a regular speaker, and has published widely, in these areas. Mark is currently chair of the JISC MLE Programme Evaluation Team. Mark Stiles gave a plenary talk on "Beyond Your VLE: Strategic Challenges". 53.008767 -2.175121 2003-07-12 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers#law http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers#law Derek Law is the Librarian and Head of Information Resources Directorate at the University of Strathclyde, Professor in the Department of Computing and Head of the Centre for Digital Library Research, University of Strathclyde. He has worked in several British universities since 1970 and have published over 150 book chapters, articles and conference papers since then, some of them republished in seven other languages. Most of his work has been to do with the development of networked resources in higher education and with the creation of national information policy. Recently I have worked on the use of wireless technology in developing new methods of teaching and learning. Derek was awarded the Barnard prize for contributions to Medical Informatics in 1993, Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1999 and was awarded an honorary degree by the Sorbonne in 2000. Derek gave the opening keynote plenary talk. 55.864524 -4.246645 2002-06-18 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers#nisen http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers#nisen William G Nisen became Chief Executive of the E-Institute in 2001. Prior to assuming his duties at the E-Institute he co-founded South Fork International (an international management consultancy), and before that, he was President of McGraw-Hill Home Interactive, where he successfully launched the company's consumer retail business. Mr Nisen has a long association with Scotland. From 1987 through 1993 Mr Nisen was President and CEO of OWL International, a joint U.S./Scottish company, where he directed a turn-around of the company, managed its growth with sales exceeding $10MM, sold it and successfully transitioned all operations to Matsushita Electronics Industrial. Mr Nisen also has held management positions at Lotus Development Corp. and Harvard University's Computer Graphics Laboratory. Nisen also serves on the board of directors for several technology companies. William gave the opening keynote plenary talk on day 2 on "Knowledge Based Web Sites: A Preliminary Investigation". 55.864524 -4.246645 2002-06-19 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers#aird http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers#aird Andrew Aird is the Director of Web Services at King's College, London. Previously he ran the Web service at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has written and lectured on various aspects of Web management, including ecommerce for higher education, Web strategy and designing parallel Web structures. His commercial experience stems from many years in the music and publishing industries, notably as managing director of an international music software company. The title of Andrew's talk is "Virtually Everything Virtually Everywhere: Pursuing A Radical Web Strategy". 51.513069 -0.12016 2002-06-18 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers#browning http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers#browning Paul Browning is Information Strategy Co-ordinator at the University of Bristol (but was an earth scientist who ran a departmental network in a former life). He is a member of the institutional Web Team and is fed up using a bucket and spade to build and maintain the University Web; he has been on the lookout for a JCB and thinks he might have found one in the form of Zope. Paul is co-author of the JISC TechWatch Report on Content Management Systems. Most likely to say: "Can I have the keys to your information silo?" Least likely to say: "I think yet another portal is a smart idea." Paul has been invited to give a talk on Portals and CMS - Why You Need Them Both following the cancellation on the talk on The My.Sunderland Portal: A Case Study. Paul is also taking part in a panel session on Avoiding Portal Wars. 51.460264 -2.602515 2002-06-19 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers#mcconnell http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers#mcconnell Mike McConnell is the Web Team Manager of the University of Aberdeen's Web Design Unit and currently manages a team of 5 staff who are responsible for the University's central Web presence, and the maintenance of certain departments and sections across the institution. Mike has formerly worked at the Robert Gordon University as an Educational Development Officer, and as a researcher in Information Science. Prior to that he worked at the sharp end of IT user support in the oil services industry. Mike has published on technology issues in education, Web usability and produced a number of educational Web applications. Mike has an MA in English Literature and the History of Art, a Pg Dip in Information Analysis, an MSc in Information Science, a PgCert in Tertiary Level Teaching and is a member of CILIP. Mike gave a joint presentation with Iain Middleton on "Centralised Control Or Departmental Freedom?". 57.167246 -2.102251 2002-06-19 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers#middleton http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers#middleton Iain Middleton is based in the Learning Technology Unit at the University of Aberdeen where he is currently working on a 3-year JISC-funded project to develop Web teaching and learning packages around the Museums and Special Collections, having previously been Web Editor at The Robert Gordon University where he played a leading role in the comprehensive redevelopment of the institution's Web presence. He holds a degree in Human Computer Interaction from Heriot-Watt University and a Masters in Information Analysis (Distinction) from The Robert Gordon University where he also spent 5 years in research at the School of Information and Media, specialising in help desks, online user support systems and communication on the World Wide Web. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) and maintains his research interest in the co-ordination of Web sites and help desks in user support, and the role of the Web in Higher Education. Iain gave a joint presentation with Mike McConnell on "Centralised Control Or Departmental Freedom?". 57.167246 -2.102251 2002-06-19 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers#phipps http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers#phipps Lawrie Phipps is an environmental science graduate turned learning technologist. He worked on the development of Web-based resources, computer simulations and 'virtual' fieldwork for several years before running the JISC-funded TechDis Service, which looks at all aspects of Technology and Disabilities in the further and higher education sectors. Lawrie maintains a research interest in virtual lab and fieldwork in the sciences. The title of Lawrie's talk is "Legislation, Disabilities and Educational Web Sites". 53.9575 -1.072884 2002-06-18 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers#simpson http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers#simpson Mark Simpson has been working as the User Issues researcher on the De Montfort University, MLE project, since October 2001. Previously, he has worked on the following: aircrew operational issues of flying in icing weather, funded by the CAA and European Community; training and human factors issues for real-time, full motion simulators; the design of photocopier manuals and control panel information; and the design of process plant control rooms. He has a BSc in Ergonomics, a Postgraduate diploma in Computing and a MA in Industrial Design. The title of Mark's talk is "Designing For Usability". 52.631188 -1.143308 2002-06-19 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#tanner http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2003/speakers/#tanner Stephen Tanner is Head of IT Services at Colchester Institute in North Essex, a large mainly FE college but with some HE provision. Previously involved in integrated systems initiatives in the NHS, since 1998 he's been pursuing a standardised and integrated IT & MIS strategy college wide with particular emphasis on Web based applications, through partnerships with commercial suppliers. He likes to think he might eventually be getting somewhere.... The title of Stephen's talk is "The Lecturer's MIS Menu: Why Silver Service Is Off And Drive- Thru's In". 51. 0.901222 2002-06-19 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions#flynn http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions#flynn Peter Flynn runs the academic project support service in the Computer Centre at University College Cork and was Ireland's first Webmaster. He trained at the London College of Printing and has an MA from Central London Poly. Peter was on the design team for HTML and XML and currently edits the XML FAQ. He holds the dubious distinction of being the first person to break a link on the Web. 51.903401 -8.463936 2001-06-25 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions#helm http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions#helm Paul Helm is Associate Head Learning Technology in the Learning and Teaching Institute at Sheffield Hallam University. He has worked in adult and further education, university computing services and educational development units. He is currently the project manager for Sheffield Hallam's Virtual Learning Environment, a major thrust of the University's Learning Teaching and Assessment strategy. 53.420582 -1.464615 2001-06-25 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions#savory http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions#savory Andrew Savory is managing director of Luminas Limited, an Internet application company, and was a university Webmaster for a number of years. 2001-06-25 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions#ray http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions#ray MJ Ray is a director of Luminas Limited, an Internet application company, and was the founding general editor of tsw, winners of the sabbatical to complete his doctorate. 2001-06-25 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions#bristow http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions#bristow Ed Bristow is the Technical Manager of the PKI Project within the Information Technology Services Group of the Australian Taxation Office. Ed has worked for the ATO for most of the last 12 years, moving from database to mainframe applications to his current role in electronic service delivery. Ed has spent periods working in the private sector and prior to finding his way into IT was a librarian with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library in Canberra. -35.282061 149.12859 2001-06-25 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions#scott http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions#scott Peter Scott is the Head of the Centre for New Media in the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University. CNM protypes the application of new technologies and media to learning at all levels. Peter's current research interests range widely across knowledge and media research. Three key threads at the moment are: telepresence; streaming media systems; and agent research. He has a BA (1983) and PhD (1987) in Psychology. Before joining the Open University in 1995, Dr Scott lectured in Psychology and Cognitive Science at the University of Sheffield. He has a textbook in each of these subjects. He has managed dozens of major grants, and has a bucketful of research publications. Dr Scott is on the board of the company Corous.Com, a wholly owned subsidiary of Open University World Wide Ltd., specializing in the development of corporate education and training portals. He has acted as an Internet consultant to a range of multinational corporations. He is also the managing director of WebSymposia Ltd, an Internet multimedia webcasting company. 52.025775 -0.70909 2001-06-25 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions#mcdonald http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions#mcdonald Diane McDonald is a senior member of the PREDICT Research Group, part of the Information Strategy Directorate of the University of Strathclyde. Her current major interests are in the e-business area. She has responsibility for the development of a Managed Learning Environment, general WWW strategy and ITC security policy & strategy within the University. She is also responsible for the development of the demonstration and dissemination facilities for the West of Scotland based e-institute, of which the University is the senior partner. She was previously the Network Manager for the University. 55.864524 -4.246645 2001-06-25 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions#conole http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions#conole Grainne Conole is Director of the Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol, which is a centre of excellence on the development and use of information and communication technology in education. The Institute hosts around 40 projects and services at any one time (funding sources include HEFCE, ESRC, EU and commercial sponsors), employing ca. 70 staff with a range of expertise and skills across the technical and educational domains. Research includes the development of information portals, digital archives, underlying metadata research and associated technology developments and the development and use of shells and toolkits for educational use. She has published over 50 publications on a range of topics, including the use and evaluation of learning technologies and is currently deputy editor for the Association of Learning Technologies journal, ALT-J. 51.460264 -2.602515 2001-06-25 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions#collins http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2001/sessions#collins Alan Collins is a Web programmer with the Information Services Directorate at the Queen's University Belfast. Prior to joining the University in Autumn 1997 he was a Health Service Clinical Scientist, specialising in the diagnosis of opthalmic disease by electrical methods. 54.585916 -5.934677 2001-06-25 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#slater http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#slater John Slater is a part of the Generic Learning and Teaching Centre and the Technology Integration Centre in the Learning and Teaching Support Network. His past includes being a JISC member, a Computer Board Member, and a number of relevant L&T Initiatives. He was the PVC for Learning and Teaching at Kent and is a member of the E-University Steering Group. 51.299174 1.067648 2000-09-06 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#harris http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#harris Christopher Harris is Executive Director of HERO. He has been seconded from Newcastle University for a period of 3 years to undertake this task. At Newcastle he was Director of Communications and Public Affairs, which included responsibility for NUInfo, the University's Internet service. 54.983573 -1.61396 2000-09-06 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#price http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#price Andy Price has been the Head of Corporate Communications at the University of Teesside for 18 months. He spent two years as Head of New Media at North East Evening Gazette, seven years as a Marketing and Business development consultant. Andy has had a varied career in both the private and public sector and have spent almost half his working life self employed. His main discipline is Marketing, but he has increasingly been involved in developments in new media and digital imaging. He has worked on early on-line 'business to business' developments in the music industry as well as managing a very early international on-line digital photography event in 1995. Subsequently he put local newspapers on-line, created local community portals, put Premiership footballs clubs in cyberspace and created national business databases as well as being directly involved in a wide variety of other on-line initiatives. In the past he has been the managing director of a graphics company, a community development worker, a language teacher in Spain and has helped establish a community circus, so he feels ideally suited to life on the Web! 54.572453 -1.23564 2000-09-06 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#sanders http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#sanders Cliff Sanders is Projects Manager for the Online Group, part of the University of Ulster's department of External Affairs. His duties include advising client departments on corporate Internet strategy and the overall development of the institution's Web presence. Cliff began his employment career as a land surveyor and became increasingly involved in the use of IT for survey processing in the late 1980s. To further this interest, Cliff enrolled on the University of Ulster's BSc Hons Computing Science degree and graduated in 1998. On graduation, Cliff joined the Online Group and was promoted to his current position of Projects manager in June 2000. 54.60603 -5.929184 2000-09-06 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#rowlatt http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#rowlatt Mary Rowlatt is currently Information Services Manager with Essex Libraries where she is responsible for the development and delivery of information services to the public. In October she will move to a new post as Community Information Network Co-ordinator for the County Council. She is joint editor for the Essex County Council website, Project leader for the LIC funded Seamless project, Project Director for the DGV funded ISTAR project, and Essex Co-ordinator for the DGXIII funded ONE-2 Project. She is a Member of the Interoperability Focus Advisory Group, the European Public Information Centres (EPIC) National Steering Group, and chairs the EARL European Task Group which developed euroguide. 2000-09-06 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#kelly http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#kelly Brian Kelly is UK Web Focus - a JISC-funded post which provides advice for the UK Higher and Further Education communities on Web developments. 51.367279 -2.324553 2000-09-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#smart http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#smart Greg Smart is the Development Manager at the University of Bath, and is responsible for the University's Management Information Systems, having previously worked on implementing and supporting the University's Finance System, Lawson. Greg has helped to ensure that the University plays a leading role in utilising Lawson's tools for web deployment. He has worked in IT for over ten years and in HE for four, and has particular interests in the way people use computers and how their jobs are affected by changing technology. 51.367279 -2.324553 2000-09-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#halliday http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#halliday Ian Halliday: Instructor, Princeton University 1964-66. Fellow Christ's College, Cambridge 1966-67. Lectureship 1967-75, Reader 75-90, Professor 90-92, Imperial College, University of London. Professor of Physics and Head of Department, University of Wales, Swansea since 1992, Dean of Graduate School 93-96 (on leave of absence). Chief Executive, Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council since 1998. 51.634215 -1.766052 2000-09-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#mcdonald http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#mcdonald Dr Tony McDonald is TLTP officer at the Faculty of Medicine Computing Centre in the Medical School at the University of Newcastle. In this position he has been involved in the development and implementation of the Networked Learning Environment and its deployment at the consortium sites. Whilst developing this system, a lot of additional work was done on XML. Before joining the FMCC, Tony worked at Netskills on the DESIRE project and, further back, was the Macintosh systems advisor at the University of Newcastle Computing Service. His current interests are in web site communication (XML-RPC and SOAP) and in 'shipping' the NLE out to as many sites as want it. 51.460264 -2.602515 2000-09-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#belcher http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#belcher Martin Belcher is Project Manager for the Internet Development Group, Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol. Martin is responsible for the consultancy activities of the ILRT. These mainly take a Web-based focus and include Web site design, implementation, service specification development, usability and accessibility audits, online strategy development and various forms of Web-focused training. Recent clients include; JISC, ESRC, University of Bristol, Bank of England, the Institute of Fiscal Studies, National Maritime Museum, BMW. Martin has been working for the University of Bristol in Internet related projects since 1994. Previous to that he studied, and sometimes practiced, in the fields of archaeology and geology. 51.460264 -2.602515 2000-09-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#robiette http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2000/sessions#robiette Alan Robiette works as Programme Director for JISC's rapidly developing interests in authentication and security. He began his career as a physical scientist but became increasingly involved in IT planning and management, and directed IT services in a number of HEIs for a period of some 15 years before taking up his current position. He is a former member of the Computer Board and of a number of JISC committees and working groups, and was closely associated with the eLib Programme throughout much of its existence. 2000-06-25 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/jslater/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/jslater/ John Slater, University of Kent at Canterbury, gave a talk entitled "Who will rid me of this troublesome beast". 51.299174 1.067648 1999-09-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/passmore/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/passmore/ Joe Passmore, University of Ulster gave a talk entitled "Building Relationships Online: ... the road ahead or the road less travelled by?". 54.60603 -5.929184 1999-09-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/multimedia/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/multimedia/ Greg Newton-Ingham, University of East Anglia, gave a talk entitled "Multimedia and The Corporate Web". 52.629989 1.240511 1999-09-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/smil/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/smil/ Michael Wilson, CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, gave a talk entitled "SMIL: Multimedia on the Web". 51.580697 -1.313467 1999-09-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/ou/#1 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/ou/#1 David Christmas, Open University, (together with Ian Roddis) gave a talk entitled "Beyond Brochureware - Building Functional University Websites". 52.026594 -0.70909 1999-09-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/ou/#2 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/ou/#2 ian Roddis, Open University, (together with David Christmas) gave a talk entitled "Beyond Brochureware - Building Functional University Websites". 52.026594 -0.70909 1999-09-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/browser-management/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/browser-management/ Brett Burridge, University of Essex, gave a talk entitled "Browser Management". 51.879617 0.946712 1999-09-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/content-management/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/content-management/ Stephen Emmott, King's College London, gave a talk entitled "Content Management Systems". 51.516862 -0.120163 1999-09-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/xml/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/xml/ James Currall, University of Glasgow, gave a talk entitled "Experiences with XML: Beyond The Hype". 55.872711 -4.2981 1999-09-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/security/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/security/ Andrew Cormack, UKERNA, gave a talk entitled "Web Security". 51.580697 -1.313467 1999-09-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/indexing/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/indexing/ , University of Cambridge, gave a talk entitled "Indexing Your Web Server(s)". 52.206476 0.125356 1999-09-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/dsullivan/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/dsullivan/ Danny Sullivan, independent consultant, gave a talk entitled "Getting Your Web Site Listed". 1999-09-07 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1998/materials/uce/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1998/materials/uce/ Brian Lantz, University of Central England (UCE), gave a talk entitled "Dumbing Down". 52.431904 -1.935718 1998-09-15 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1998/materials/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1998/materials/ Andrew Aird, Goldsmiths College, gave a talk entitled "Does Web Content Grow On Trees?". 51.474327 -0.035362 1998-09-15 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/prospectus/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/prospectus/ Paul Browning, University of Bristol, gave a talk entitled "Publishing and Devolving the Maintenance of a Prospectus". 51.460264 -2.602515 1998-09-15 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/ral/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/ral/ Victoria Marshall, CLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, gave a talk entitled "DataWeb: Three worlds collide". 51.580697 -1.313467 1998-09-16 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1998/materials/wolves/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/materials/wolves/ Jon Wallis, University of Wolverhampton, gave a talk entitled "Information Management & The Institutional Website: Promoting & Supporting Organisational Change". 52.587198 -2.12654 1998-09-16 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1998/materials/manchester/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1998/materials/manchester/ Nick Gould, University of Manchester, gave a talk entitled "'He left the course 3 months ago?' - Web front-ends to student databases". 53.469785 -2.228251 1998-09-16 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1998/materials/events-online/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1998/materials/events-online/ Stephen Emmott, King's College London, gave a talk entitled "Events Online". 51.516862 -0.120163 1998-09-16 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1998/materials/#brown http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1998/materials/#brown Terry Brown, University of Newcastle, gave a talk entitled "'The Use of Online Databases to Manage Student Support and Learning". 54.983229 -1.61396 1998-09-16 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1998/materials/web-technologies/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1998/materials/web-technologies/ Brian Kelly, UKOLN, University of Bath, gave a talk entitled "Deploying New Web Technologies ". 51.367279 -2.324553 1998-09-17 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1998/materials/accessibility/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1998/materials/accessibility/ Paul Booth, University of Abertay, gave a talk entitled "Accessibility". 56.46447 -2.97124 1998-09-17 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1998/materials/aup/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1998/materials/aup/ Colin Work, University of Southampton, gave a talk entitled "Publish and be Damned? - Freedom, Responsibility and AUP". 50.93539 -1.399727 1998-09-17 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1998/materials/british-council/ http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1998/materials/british-council/ Paul Squires, The British Council, gave a talk entitled "The British Council on the Web: An Overview". 1998-09-17 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-jul1997/#kelly http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-jul1997/#kelly Brian Kelly, UKOLN, University of Bath, gave talks entitled "Introduction" and "Next Year's Web". 51.364037 -2.32584 1997-07-16 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-jul1997/#murie http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-jul1997/#murie David Murie, University of Dundee, gave a talk entitled "Charisma or camel? A sociotechnical approach to Web redesign". 56.459811 -2.97987 1997-07-16 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-jul1997/#work http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-jul1997/#work Colin Work, University of Southampton, gave a talk entitled "Information Flow". 50.93539 -1.399727 1997-07-16 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-jul1997/#cox http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-jul1997/#cox Mark Cox, UKWeb, gave a talk entitled "Security and Performance Issues". 1997-07-16 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-jul1997/#macculloch http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-jul1997/#macculloch John MacCulloch, UKERNA, gave a talk entitled "Networking For Webmasters. 51.580697 -1.313467 1997-07-16 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-jul1997/#lowndes http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-jul1997/#lowndes Brenda Lowndes, University of Liverpool, gave a talk entitled "WWW / Database Integration". 53.410504 -2.965794 1997-07-16 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-jul1997/#lomas http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-jul1997/#lomas Dave Lomas, University of Salford, gave a talk entitled "WebTools". 53.486871 -2.271166 1997-07-16 http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-jul1997/#neisser http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-jul1997/#neisser George Neisser, University of Manchester, gave a talk entitled "WWW Caching". 53.469785 -2.228251 1997-07-16