UKOLN News

The PORTAL project is running an online survey to evaluate user requirements from institutional portals, and is offering one lucky respondent an Amazon voucher.

The Fifth Collection Description Workshop will concentrate on user needs, incorporating experiences from a range of disciplines and domains. The workshop will explore user studies and evaluation reports in order to highlight the ways in which CLD”s can help to facilitate information disclosure and discovery. Thursday 30th January 2003 Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.

The November/December issue of the Collection Description Focus Newsletter is now available.

An interactive “hands-on” workshop for Metadata for Education Group members to introduce a newly developed tool which assists implementers in building and publishing their schemas. To be held on Tuesday, 21st January, 2003, at the
University of Bath.

An interactive “hands-on” workshop for Metadata for Education Group members to introduce a newly developed tool which assists implementers in building and publishing their schemas. To be held on Tuesday, 21st January, 2003, at the
University of Bath.

The post of Research Officer has arisen within the Research and Development Team, with particular responsibility for UKOLN”s contribution to the Information Environment Service Registry Project. The closing date for applications is 3rd January 2003.

A joint session by CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group and UKOLN to be held on 18th February 2003. 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.