UKOLN News

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.

the Cultural Content Forum is inviting practitioners from museums, libraries, archives and beyond to submit expressions of interest for participation in the Forum”s next meeting, in Italy during March 2003.

is now available. This issue contains feature articles on the CHIMER, CIPHER, online COMPENDIUM and ORIEL projects from the DIGICULT Programme.
There is also an article on the Irish National Digitisation Programme.
Continuing our theme on developments in the area of Cultivate Russia,
Nadezhda Brakker and Leonid Kujbyshev of Centre PIC provide us with a view
of new trends in state information policy in the Russian cultural sphere. To
complement the latter article on general Russian developments, Natalia
Fedianina tells us about the successes and challenges in her home region around Smolensk. Closer to home, Michael Day reports on the 2nd ECDL Workshop on Web Archiving held in Rome this September and amongst other contributions, Brian Kelly considers aspects of policy on making and
permitting links.

“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. An introductory tutorial on the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is offered on the afternoon of 5 December.

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.