Successful meeting in the Calm Digital Records Group - 2010-07-23
A meeting of the Calm Digital Records Group took place on the 22nd July hosted by The National Archives (TNA) in Kew, London, UK and was well attended despite being in the ‘holiday season’.
The meeting was chaired by Adrian Brown of the Parliamentary Archives.
The aim of the meeting was to discuss requirements for future enhancements to CALM, based on the findings of the recent survey of Calm users concerning digital records plans and projects, the report of which emphasised the importance of the digital records group: “There is a recognised demand for guidance and technical solutions to enable proper preservation and management of digital records. Some respondents have significant expertise and experience in these areas, and there is an opportunity for the community to take advantage of this by sharing experiences and best practice “.
A number of talks were given: • Survey findings – Adrian Brown (Parliamentary Archives) • The AIMS Project - Simon Wilson (Hull University) • Cataloguing electronic records using CALM – Natalie Walters (Wellcome Library) • Understanding technology for digital preservation – Malcolm Todd (TNA) • CALM development roadmap – Nigel Pegg & Malcolm Howitt (Axiell)
Following this, individual workshops were held on: • Cataloguing and metadata • Accession and ingest • Supporting user access • Best practice and training.
Join Axiell at IFLA - 2010-07-16
The 76th IFLA General Conference and Assembly draws near. Only few weeks are left before the conference will open on the 19th of August 2010 in Gothenburg.
Axiell is dedicated to be Special National Sponsor. Besides sponsoring keynote speakers, offering grants to delegates from the 3rd World and host two Night Spots, Axiell is offering several other activities to customers as well as non customers.
Exhibition Axiell’s theme for IFLA 2010 is “Democracy and design”, chosen to fit into IFLA’s conference theme which is “Open access to knowledge”. At Axiell’s stand C102 at the exhibition it will be possible for everyone to become acquainted with Axiell Arena – a virtual world where culture institutions can offer new services, encourages democracy by making it easy to access, contribute and share information and is born out of good design.
The new virtual meeting place 24/7 – by net or smartphone, which encourages involvement and user driven communication can been seen at the exhibition, which is open from Wednesday the 11th till Saturday the 14th of August.
Lecture about Democracy and design Another activity at IFLA is a lecture about the theme Democracy and design. Director Ted Hesselbom from the Swedish Röhsska Museum of Fashion, Design and Decorative Arts is the one who will give a lecture. During recent years he has succeeded in opening the museum to a wider audience and increasing the number of visitors amazingly. Democratization, user involvement, openness are just some of the keywords ...
It takes place Thursday the 12th of August from 1 to 1.45 pm in room J1. Everyone is welcome.
Come together…. At Gothenburg City Library you will have a chance to meet other IFLA delegates for an informal chat every evening between 8 pm and 1 am.
Axiell will be your host at two Night Spots. On Tuesday 10th of August IFLA’s president Ellen Tise will open the arrangement and on Friday 13th of August Christina Persson, Library Director for Gothenburg City Library will welcome you.
Explore the Swedish Skerries And finally there is a special activity for Axiell’s customers.
On Thursday 12th of August in the late afternoon, Axiell has invited its customers for a trip out into the Swedish skerries with food and drinks. The boat will take the participants exploring the narrow coastal waters docking later at Axiell’s main office by Saltholmen, and then the trip back to Gothenburg will be by old trams.
Customers have to announce their participation in advance at axlg@axiell.com by 5th of August at the latest.
Which cultural instituion is going to be named "The Digital Cultural Institution of the Year 2010"? - 2010-06-30
In connection with IFLA’s conference in Gothenburg 2010 Axiell will award one cultural institution in Sweden, Denmark, Finland or in the UK that has taken the journey towards the digital world in a new and innovative way.
With the award Axiell wants to encourage cultural institutions entering the transition into the digital world. A transition where the cultural institutions reach their communities in a new digital way, by e.g. partnering with local government, business and other organizations to heed local needs and develop new ervices for the benefit of the end-users.
The price was founded in 2007 under the name “The Nordic Digital Library of the year” but from this year the scope has been broaden out not only to concern the Nordic countries and either not only libraries.
In six months more than 16 libraries have gone live with Axiell Arena - 2010-06-10
Since January 2010 the virtual libraries have been a reality in many municipalities.
In 2009 more than 60 libraries chose Axiell Arena as their future tool for building the virtual library on the net. Some went live in 2009, but looking at the first half of 2010 we have seen that more than 16 libraries/ consortiums creating their new virtual platform and going live with the solution. All of them look quite different according to the design wanted for each individual virtual library. Some chose it as the library catalogue others again for the library’s whole website. Different services can be added, and you decide where and how you want to present them to the end-users. You can do all that yourself and change them as often as you want without involving consultants.
Catch a look at some of the different solutions and see the extent of differences.
Elag (European Library Automation Group) is having it’s 34th library system conference in Helsinki, Finland from the 9th till 11th of June. This year’s theme “Meeting New User Expectations” will be highlighted through different technical approaches to improving the libraries services for users of today who have new expectations and needs.
Axiell Library Group is sponsoring this international conference, as part of our determination to adress growing demands with future possibilities. In response to the virtual archive, library and museum, Axiell Arena offers citizens new ways to reach culture services with new, inspiring physical as well as virtual solutions. By sponsoring this conference Axiell wishes to encourage the participants to exchange best practices and to discuss current problems and future challenges. Our keynote speaker Andrew Cox from the University of Sheffield, speaking about student engagement in learning fits very well in context here.
