UKOLN News

The UKOLN Annual Report 2001-2002 is now available.

Presenting natiOnal Resources To Audiences Locally, a joint project with the University of Hull, is investigating ways to integrate external content within institutional portals. This project is funded under the JISC”s FAIR Programme.

This issue focuses on the “Information
Environment”: an idea which builds on earlier conceptions of the Digital Library. Ariadne looks at relevant work taking place on both sides of the
Atlantic: the issue features an article by Andy Powell on the practical aspects of becoming a content provider for the JISC IE. Ariadne also looks at the EDNER project (Jill Griffiths and Peter Brophy), which was created to provide evaluation services for the JISC IE. OCLC”s acquisition of netLibrary is also featured: Shirley Hyatt and Lynn Connaway explain how the acquisition offers opportunities to provide an enhanced IE, designed to function as a seamless and friendly package of resources for end-users.

is now available.

The fourth Collection Description Focus Workshop will be held on Friday 8th November 2002, University of Newcastle, Castle Leazes Halls of Residence. The workshop will explore the relationship between collection-level description and collection management. This is a free event and will be of interest to practitioners including those describing collections or developing and implementing services which utilise such descriptions, those with an interest in the development and deployment of standards in this area and also information managers.

“Open Access to Hidden Resources” will bring together organizations in the archival and library fields to explore whether, and under what
conditions, the open archive approach is viable for these organisations, and to promote new collaborative links aimed at building interoperable infrastructures. Registration is now open, with a booking deadline of 1 November. An introductory tutorial on the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is offered on the afternoon of 5 December.

DC-dot and DC-assist both featured in a course entitled “Why and How to Use the Dublin Core Metadata for Health Resources on the Internet: an
Introduction” given by I. Robu & B. Thirion at the 8th European Conference of Medical and Health Libraries.

The fourth Collection Description Focus Workshop will be held on Friday 8th November 2002, University of Newcastle, Castle Leazes Halls of Residence. The workshop will explore the relationship between collection-level description and collection management with specific reference to the needs of professional information managers within the context of the “Distributed National Collection”

A joint session by CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group and UKOLN. Useful for staff involved in access issues for visually impaired people as well as for cataloguers; also for the managers of both groups, who have an influence on where effort and resources are allocated. POSTPONED – please watch for further notification