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The International World Wide Web conference begins in Edinburgh today. Organised by the International World Wide Web Conference committee (IW3C2), the annual WWW Conference is the global event for the key influencers, decision makers, technologists, businesses and standards bodies shaping the future of the web. Among the highlights of the conference this week will be a keynote speech from Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, in which he will showcase new web capabilities along with other key experts.

JISC is a Silver Sponsor of this year's World Wide Web Conference, and its activities at the conference begin today with a free pre-conference workshop on the JISC Information Environment and Digital Repositories. The workshop will highlight the work of its Digital Repositories programme and look at how repositories will play an increasing role supporting universities and colleges as they share and manage their intellectual outputs. Repositories enable universities and colleges to share and manage their intellectual outputs, making existing work easier, more effective and efficient, and supporting innovative teaching, learning and research practice. 

This workshop presents the work JISC is funding to bring this about, and offers an opportunity for those working in universities to discuss how they might best exploit this work in their own contexts. The aim of the workshop is to deepen the shared understanding of the higher education community about the role of repositories. The target audience is researchers, teachers, managers and administrators who have an interest in sharing or managing the intellectual output of universities.