UKOLN News

The latest issue of Ariadne has a number of articles in relation to the Collection Description Focus: Ann Chapman and Bridget Robinson write on the work of the Collection Description Focus and introduce articles on Cornucopia, the Information Environment Service Registry and Tap into Bath, the latter being co-authored by Alison Baud of University of Bath Library and Learning Centre and Ann Chapman. Daniel Chudnov and colleagues describe a path “Towards Library Groupware with Personalised Link Routing” while Karen Coyle, author of “Rights Expression Languages: A Report for the Library of Congress”, makes a case in her article for the requirements of digital libraries with regard to Rights Management. Eric Lease Morgan provides a sound introduction to SRW/SRU, sibling Web Service protocols designed to define a standard form for Internet search queries. Meanwhile Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the evolution of her university”s institutional repository, with references to the recent House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report.

has a number of articles in relation to the Collection Description Focus: Ann Chapman and Bridget Robinson write on the work of the Collection Description Focus and introduce articles on Cornucopia, the Information Environment Service Registry and Tap into Bath, the latter being co-authored by Alison Baud of University of Bath Library and Learning Centre and Ann Chapman. Daniel Chudnov and colleagues describe a path “Towards Library Groupware with Personalised Link Routing” while Karen Coyle, author of “Rights Expression Languages: A Report for the Library of Congress”, makes a case in her article for the requirements of digital libraries with regard to Rights Management. Eric Lease Morgan provides a sound introduction to SRW/SRU, sibling Web Service protocols designed to define a standard form for Internet search queries. Meanwhile Jessie Hey describes how user needs have influenced the evolution of her university”s institutional repository, with references to the recent House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report.

Registration for the 8th European Conference on Digital Libraries is now open. Further details including programme and full list of papers can be found here.

A vacancy has arisen for the post of Interoperability Focus. The closing date for applications is 29 July 2004.