International visitors @ Northumbria University

A few weeks ago we were delighted to host a visit from Dr Joanne Evans, Research Fellow, eScholarship Research Centre, Melbourne University, Australia who gave a lunchtime seminar on 'Discovery and innovation: action research within communities of practice.' Joanne outlined the use of action research in Monash University's Clever Recordkeeping Metadata Project (http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/research/groups/rcrg/crkm/). She was a member of the project team which, like AC+erm, brought together researchers and practitioners to investigate a recordkeeping problem. The focus was the requirements for recordkeeping metadata interoperability explored through the attempted iterative development of a demonstrator of how standards-compliant metadata could be created once in particular application environments, then used many times to meet a range of business and recordkeeping purposes. A key outcome from the project was the need to foster such research partnerships for further discovery and innovation. In a couple of weeks we're looking forward to hosting a visit from another international visitor Peter Kurilecz. Peter is a Senior Systems Architect for IBM in the compliance arena working with their email manager and records management products. He is also well known in the UK for his RAIN updates on the RM listserv. He will be visiting us on Wed 8 July and we're hoping to host an open meeting. Please put the date in your diary and watch this space for more details.....