ILRT
What We Do - Event Management Software
We have developed a range of software to help with the planning and organisation of seminars and conferences.
Conferences, workshops and seminars are important means of dissemination of research and R&D findings and underpin the creation of new ideas and the sharing of good practice. Planning and organising seminars and conferences - particularly the administrative processes - can be a chore. You need to keep track of calls for papers, publicise the event, process bookings, review submissions in timely and efficient ways.
Conference organisers are also often faced with the challenge of disseminating the outputs from parallel sessions, panels and other discussion both to those unable to attend all sessions and, after the event, anyone unable to attend at all.
We offer a range of software to help
Open Conference Software (OCS)
Open Conference Software is web-based and has functions to issue calls for papers, upload material, process bookings and publicise location and programme, allowing you to keep track of the administrative processes and have an overview of the event as preparation progresses.
This open-source software can be readily customised to take on the design theme for your particular event.
We are keen to customise and deploy OCS for other customers within the University of Bristol and beyond: please contact Internet Development manager Peter Walker (peter.walker@bristol.ac.uk) if you are interested.
Iugo: Conference Information Integration Project
The new knowledge generated during discussions, conference panel sessions and workshops is often lost to anyone unable to attend. Increasingly though, this information is being captured: keynote presentations are videoed; delegates make blog entries; session Internet Relay Chat discussions are recorded. These and other informal outputs can be very valuable. However, they can be hard to track down as few are linked to official conference sites.
Iugo offers a proof of concept system that lets you link informally-generated web-based content (and references to non web-based content) for a whole event and for individual sessions within that event.
If you are interested in finding out more about the JISC-funded Iugo project, or its potential application for your conferences and events, please contact Web Futures Coordinator Nikki Rogers (nikki.rogers@bristol.ac.uk).