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Developing the UKCoRR website

Paul Stainthorp — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:27:37 +0000

I was at the University of Nottingham, yesterday, for the annual face-to-face meeting of the UKCoRR committee. (Unfunded as UKCoRR is, all other committee meetings—we have one every couple of months—are teleconferences using Powwownow. But it’s immensely valuable to get together in person at least once a year.) Amongst other things, we discussed the recent survey of UKCoRR members, and the next members’ meeting, planned for January 2012.

My #1 priority as UKCoRR ‘Web & Publicity Officer‘ is to upgrade the group’s website (www.ukcorr.org).

The old website – graciously funded and hosted by the CRC at Nottingham for the past n years, is beginning to show its age. I’m copying over all the content to a WordPress site hosted at the University of Lincoln; as soon as it’s the equal of the ‘old’, current site, we’ll transfer the *.ukcorr.org domain over, and take it forward from there.

You can see the (extremely very much still in-development) new UKCoRR website, for the time being, at: http://ukcorr.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/

Alright stop: collaborate and LISN

Paul Stainthorp — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:59:48 +0000

Yesterday the University of Lincoln hosted the latest meeting of LISN, the Lincolnshire Information Services Network of libraries and information providers from all library sectors (academic, school, public, specialist) operating in Lincs.

“LISN (pronounced listen) has been in existence since August 1998 when a group of (mainly) college and university librarians decided to network on a formalised basis. LISN is a group which meets to share staff expertise and resources between its members and therefore by extension all members’ users.”

My particular and long-running task in LISN is to make something of our website. I’ve recently re-created the site using WordPress, hosted here at the University; the group’s web domain (www.lisn.org.uk) is now pointing at the new site. Now I need to apply a decent WordPress theme and visual style; also to develop the site content: the group has agreed that it’s going to be kept small and perfectly formed(!), but there is some more information about the member organisations that needs to be incorporated.

A screenshot of the new website, pre-visual makeover:

(And yes, I’ve used the title of this blog post before. So sue me.)

I’m all about the Web

Paul Stainthorp — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:29:34 +0000

I’ve started to use the links feature of this WordPress site to keep a record of my presence on a whole range of other external websites, blogs, wikis, and social networking sites, which I’ll add to as I register a new account (or remember existing registrations).

You should be able to view the list of links on the right-hand side of http://paulstainthorp.com/

22 links and counting. I’ve tried (and been reasonably successful so far) to use the same account name (pstainthorp) for all my registrations.

Q. Where are you on the Web? How do you keep track?

Maths ‘n’ Stats support centre website

Paul Stainthorp — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:10:26 +0000

I’ve been working on a little website for the University of Lincoln’s resident statistician, John Flynn, to promote to students (and their lecturers) the services of the Lincoln Maths and Statistics Support Centre.

It’s [yet another] WordPress site on the University’s blogging / self-publishing platform, ‘themed’ with the University’s new-ish CWD (Common Web Design) template.

The support centre itself operates out of the GCW University Library (“Learning Development” suite) three days a week, and helps students with assessment worries and analysis for project work. Related: sigma – Centre for Excellence in Mathematics & Statistics Support.

The website is at: http://mathsandstats.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/

I’ve also added a widget to the Library ‘tab’ on Blackboard, which displays links to the [currently] 4 pages on the Maths and Stats website. This I created using the site’s RSS feed (it has the WordPress ‘RSS Include Pages‘ plugin activated) – fed through Feed2JS to turn it into JavaScript-within-HTML tags – then embedded within a Blackboard HTML widget. Easy peasy.

Old site, new site

Paul Stainthorp — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:09:55 +0000

I’ve decided to start maintaining again my personal website, mainly as a register of all the little bits of work I get involved in. This does mean it might not always make fascinating reading (unless you’re transfixed by digital library management and development…), but at least I’ll have a permanent record of things to refer back to.

My original website was a series of plain HTML documents; now instead of maintaining my own installation of WordPress I’m using the University of Lincoln’s (i.e. my employer’s) WordPress MU / BuddyPress server at blogs.lincoln.ac.uk, but mapped to my own domain. This way I can participate in the social-networking features of BuddyPress, while still maintaining my own, personal online presence outside the University.