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Mostly for my own reference;  this is what I do for work

Me

Since August 2007 Digital Library Manager, University of York, managing the Digital Library, the SAFIR (Sound Archive Film Image Repository) project, a 17-month JISC-funded project to set up an open access multimedia repository at the University of York (ended December 2008) and YODL-ING, a 24 month JISC enhancement project (Apr 2009 - Mar 2011). Also, now part of the project team for LIFE-SHARE, led by the University of Leeds.

web: http://www.york.ac.uk/library/electroniclibrary/yorkdigitallibraryyodl/

blog: http://yorkdl.wordpress.com/

I have a particular interest in SWORD & SWORD2 (Simple Web-service offering repository deposit), JISC-funded projects to create, implement and test a lightweight deposit specification, and any future interations of SWORD.

web: http://www.swordapp.org
mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sword-app-tech

October 2005-August 2007: Repositories Research Officer at UKOLN for the JISC Digital Repositories Programme and the JISC Repositories and Preservation strand of the JISC Capital Programme. This included work on SWAP.

Before that: Manchester Metropolitan University, Content Co-ordinator for the Artifact arts and creative industries hub of the Resource Discovery Network (now Intute). Various externally-funded projects, mainly relating to the provision of online access to archival collections, including the D.H. Lawrence Manuscript Collections at the University of Nottingham Department of Manuscripts, the David Owen, Cunard and Gypsy Lore Society collections held at the University of Liverpool Special Collections and Archives and the Archives Hub.

Work

Presentations

on york digital library on metadata, on deposit/SWORD, on OAI-ORE, on repositories generally

on York Digital Library

• York Digital Library - Images Case Study . Presentation at SUETr Multimedia Deposits Event, York, 30th March 2009.
• Filenames are not metadata?. Presentation at Beyond Advocacy, University of Bradford, 20th November 2008.
• Towards a Digital Library for York. Presentation to CRD, University of York, 12th November 2008.
  • Repeated in a slightly modified form for the White Rose Grid eScience Workshop, University of Sheffield, 13th November 2008.
• Allinson, Julie, Britcliffe, Wayne and Leonard, Anthony. Supporting and enabling the use of video at the University of York. Presentation at BUFVC Learning on Screen, York, 18th March 2008 (Paper and Presentation)
• Towards a Digital Library for York. Presentation to York Library staff, 12/15 February 2008

on SWORD / Deposit

• Allinson, Julie and Stevenson, Adrian. The Cutting Edge of SWORD. 4th International Conference on Open Repositories, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2009
• SWORD and ORE. Presentation at the British Library, Boston Spa, 25th March 2009.
• SWORD. Presentation at Third International Conference on Open Repositories 2008, 1-4 April 2008, Southampton, United Kingdom. Paper and presenation.


• SWORD - where we are now and how we got here. Presentation at the JISC CRIG Unconference, Birkbeck College, 6th December 2007. Also available on Slideshare


• Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit (SWORD). Presentation at the JISC CETIS EC and MDR SIG meeting, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, 29th June 2007. Also available on Slideshare


• SimpleWeb-service Offering Repository Deposit (SWORD). Presentation at the Defining Image Access project meeting, Wolfson College, Oxford University, Oxford, 22nd June 2007. Also available on Slideshare


• Rachel Heery, Julie Allinson, Jim Downing, Christopher Gutteridge and Martin Morrey, Repository Deposit Service Description . Presented by Julie Allinson at Open Repositories 2007, 23-26 January 2007, San Antonio, Texas. Also available on Slideshare



on metadata and the Scholarly Works Application Profile (SWAP)

DISCLAIMER: Overly comprehensive - many of these are very similar.

• Dublin Core Scholarly Communications Community Workshop : Welcome, Berlin, 24th September 2008. Also, presentation on SWAP


• SWAP for dummies. Presentation at the RSP Professional Briefing, 29th November 2007, Leeds. Also available on Slideshare


• SWAP : a dublin core application profile for describing scholarly works. Presentation at the Images Application Profile working group meeting, 29th October 2007, London. Also available on Slideshare


• A dublin core application profile for describing scholarly works. Presentation at the JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting, 5th July 2007, London. Also available on Slideshare


• Julie Allinson, Mahendra Mahey and Herbert van de Sompel, (OAI5), CERN, Geneva, 18-20 April 2007.
  • Julie Allinson Introduction and exploring options for metadata modelling; also available from Slideshare
  • Mahendra Mahey Content Packaging Standards for complex objects (some)
  • Herbert van de Sompel Some insights into MPEG-21 DID / DIDL based on the aDORe experience


• A Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works (eprints). Presentation at the JISC Cetis Metadata and Digital Repository SIG meeting, Manchester, 16th April 2007. Also available on Slideshare


• Julie Allinson, Pete Johnston and Andy Powell, The Eprints Application Profile: a FRBR approach to modelling repository metadata . Presented by Julie Allinson at Open Repositories 2007, 23-26 January 2007, San Antonio, Texas. Also available on Slideshare


• Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works. Presentation at Knowledge Exchange IR Workshop, Research Paper Metadata strand, SURF, Utrecht, NL, 16th January 2007. Also available on Slideshare


• Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works (ePrints). Presentation at the Slainte Metadata issues for Scottish institutional repositories meeting, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, 4th December 2006. Also available on Slideshare


• Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works (ePrints). Presentation at the JISC Repositories andPreservation Programme Meeting, Interoperability parallel session,London, 25th October 2006. Also available on Slideshare 


• EPrints Application Profile , with Andy Powell (Eduserv Foundation).Tutorial at Open Scholarship 2006, 18th October 2006, University of Glasgow. Further details. Also available on Slideshare


• Signed metadata : method and application , with Emma Tonkin (UKOLN). Paper presented at International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, 6 October 2006, Mexico. Also available on Slideshare


• Eprints Special Session , with Andy Powell (Eduserv Foundation).Special session at International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, 4 October 2006, Mexico. Also available on Slideshare


• Eprints Application Profile , for the UK repositories search meeting, 27 July 2006.

on OAI-ORE

• OAI-ORE: an introduction . Staff seminar, UKOLN, 26th July 2007.


• OAI-ORE: a perspective on compound information objects. Presentation at the Defining Image Access project meeting, Wolfson College, Oxford University, Oxford, 22nd June 2007. Also available on Slideshare


• An introduction to OAI-ORE . Presentation at the Defining Image Access project meeting, Wolfson College, Oxford University, Oxford, 9th February 2007. Also available on Slideshare

on repositories

• Current JISC initiatives for repositories, presentation at the NOWAL Exchange of Experience on Institutional/Digital Repositories, Liverpool, 17 May 2007.


• Repositories in a wider context , presentation at the NOWAL Exchange of Experience on Institutional/Digital Repositories, Liverpool, 3 November 2006. Also available on Slideshare


• OAIS as a reference model for repositories. Presentation at the JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme Meeting, Frameworks and Services session, London, 25th October 2006. Also available on Slideshare


• The Rise and Rise of Digital Repositories. With Mahendra Mahey. Presentation and workshop at the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2006, 14th June2006, University of Bath. Further details.


• Digital Repositories : one size fits all?. Presentation to the UKOLN Open Forum, 14 June 2006,University of Bath. Further details. Also available on Slideshare


• An introduction to the Digital Repositories Programme Support Team. Presentation to the JISC E-Learning Team meeting, 11 April 2006, Bristol.


• An introduction to Repository reference models . Presentation to the CETIS Metadata and Digital Repositories SIG Meeting, 1 March 2006, HE Academy, York. Further details. Also available on Slideshare


• Repositories... and the known unknowns. Presentation to the JISC-CETIS Conference, 15-16 November 2005, Edinburgh. Further details.

Publications

• Allinson, Julie and Harbord, Elizabeth. SHERPA to YODL-ING: Digital Mountaineering at York, Ariadne, issue 60, July 2009,


• Robertson, RJ and Allinson, J. York Digital Library : an ecological view of interactions and systems, CETIS, University of Strathclyde and University of York, 2009.


• Allinson, J. (2008) Describing Scholarly Works with Dublin Core: A Functional Approach. Library Trends, 57 (2). pp. 221-243. ISSN 0024-2594


• Allinson, Julie. Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit (SWORD), Ariadne, issue 54, January 2008.


• Robertson, John, Mahey, Mahendra and Allinson, Julie An ecological approach to repository and service interactions, June 2007


• Allinson, Julie. 'For the love of metadata? : a functional approach to describing scholarly works', ALISS Quarterly, vol 2, no. 3, April 2007. Submitted manuscript


• Allinson, Julie, Johnston, Pete and Powell, Andy. A Dublin Core Application Profile for scholarly works. Ariadne, issue 50, January 2007.


• Allinson, Julie, Heery, Rachel, Johnston, Pete and Russell, Rosemary 'DC 2006: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning' report on DC2006, the sixth international conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, held 3 - 6 October 2006, http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue49/dc-2006-rpt/


• Allinson, Julie and MacLeod, Roddy. 'Digital repositories : building an information infrastructure in the UK'. ''Research Information'', October/November 2006, issue 25. Submitted manuscript


• Allinson, Julie.OAIS as a reference model for repositories : an evalutation, July 2006


• Allinson, Julie and Mahey, Mahenda. 'The Second Digital Repositories Programme Meeting'. ''Ariadne'', At the Event, April 2006. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue47/jisc-repositories-rpt/


• Julie Allinson, Marieke Guy, & Maureen Pennock 'Event Report:The Rustle of Digital Curation: The JISC Annual Conference', Ariadne, Issue 47, April 2006. http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue47/jisc-conf-rpt/


• Allinson, Julie. 'JISC Digital Repositories Programme team launch wiki and mailing list'. D-Lib in-brief, Februray 2006 and JISC e-Learning Focus, 28 Febraury 2006. 


• Allinson, Julie. 'Artifact : a subject guide for the arts and creative industries', Art Libraries Journal, 29 (3), 4-9. http://www.arlis.org.uk/publ/alj/vol29no3.html
  


• Allinson, Julie and Hooper, Katy, 'A Record of Romani Heritage,' Library Association Record 101(11), November 1999. http://www.la-hq.org.uk/directory/record/r199911/


• Allinson, Julie. 'Enabling Armchair Delivery: Approaches to Encoding Finding Aids at the University of Liverpool,' Archives and Museum Informatics 12 (3-4), 1998, 253-276. Submitted manuscript

Posters

• Poster at Third International Conference on Open Repositories 2008, 1-4 April 2008, Southampton, United Kingdom. Paper and poster.
  
• Poster at Dealing with the Digital Deluge. Manchester, 5-6 June 2007. Also available on Slideshare
  
• Poster at Open Scholarship 2006. Glasgow, 18-20 October 2006. (this poster was also presented at the DCC Conference by John Robertson)
  

Other work activities

Current

• 2007-, DCMI Usage Board
• 2007-, DCMI Advisory Board
• 2007-, JISC Common Repository Interfaces Working Group (CRIG)
• 2009-2011, LIFE-SHARE project Advisory Group
• University of York, Distance Learning Forum
• University of York, E-Accessibility Forum

Previous

• 2007-, OAI-ORE Liaison Group
• 2007, Co-moderator, DCMI Community for Scholarly Communications
• Sub-moderator, Knowledge Exchange IR Workshop, Research Paper Metadata strand, SURF, Utrecht, NL, 16th January 2007. Strand briefing and Final report are available.
• Coordinator Eprints Application Profile Working Group (Scholarly Works Application Profile - SWAP), with Andy Powell (Eduserv Foundation), 2006.
• D.H. Lawrence at the University of Nottingham [videorecording]. Nottingham University of Nottingham Media Centre, in association with Manuscripts and Special Collections, 2003.

Other events attended

Purely for my own memory, here is a list of things I've attended.

In my spare time

I am a kindov webmaster for this and a co-conspirator in this. If you like nice tunes, listen to this. I store my pictures on flickr, my listendings on last.fm and I very occassionally twittter.

If you're passing through Wyoming, be sure to visit the library.

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