UKOLN News

“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

Pete Johnston, from UKOLN”s Collection Description Focus, will be speaking at this event being organised in Edinburgh by the CIMI Institute.

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.

This event offers the chance to see how public library websites fit into the government”s plans to make all services electronically available by 2005.

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.

Issue 7 has reports from a number of Digicult projects including articles on the difficulties of preserving large broadcast archives, an image retrieval system based on content and metadata, and the use of Virtual Reality Modelling and video in historic garden documentation. This together with articles from other areas such
as news from Paul Miller and colleagues on moves towards a digital Cultural Content Forum and the regular columns, including a lively article
by Pete Cliff on the benefits of using RSS.

This issue (June/July) features an article on the implementation of an e-prints server at the University of Glasgow (William Nixon). Plus two items marking the tenth anniversary of Netlab at the Library of the University of Lund, Sweden. Ian Dolphin and Paul Miller also contribute an article on Learning and Teaching in the Information Environment, and, in his regular column, Phil Bradley looks at the entry of the BBC into the search-engine market. Ariadne 32 also
contains a report from WWW2002 in Hawaii.