I’m Chris Keene, I’m based in Brighton, East Sussex, UK. Hello
Originally from Northampton, I then headed to Canterbury to study (not enough) Computer Science at The University of Kent at Canterbury. Once it was time to leave, like a kid in a playground clutching on to the climbing frame when it is time to go, I got a job in the University Library runnings their IT systems, PCs and websites.
I spend too much time in front of a computer, still get excited by the web, enjoy real ale and too many other alcoholic beverages, read The Economist and sometimes other things, I’m a signed up Shambrarian, and get depressed whenever I write these things and run out of things to say.
I’m the Technical Development Manager at the University of Sussex Library, in my head this means I play with web and technology stuff. In reality I write project updates, plan stuff (ha!), compose funding bids, and have too many emails in my inbox.
Libraries are all about how to discover relevant stuff and providing access to information . Both of these things are now very much online and web based (though apparently we still have books, must check them out). The former – finding and discovering the right information – via catalogues, protocols and sharing data, and latter – accessing information – in online journals, databases, digitalisation, e-books and websites . Along side this is a desire to see academic research, data and metadata being as open and reusable as possible, which means things like Open Access and the semantic web are quite exciting.
You can also find me at:
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nostuff.org
Content-free since 2002. nostuff.org was originally a set of static webpages and mainly a place to put all my old websites I had created (Geocities, University personal space, ISP… if someone gave me web space, I created badly written content). Originally hosted by Freedom2surf, now hosted by Dreamhost (I recommend them, and if you follow that link you should get $50 off).
Contact
You can email me at chriskeene@gmail.com
