Ariadne 30 features two articles related to the Open Archives Initiative; an introduction to the The JISC User Behaviour Monitoring and Evaluation
Framework; it also features an article by David Pearson of the Wellcome Library which poses some
interesting questions about Digitization Strategy.
Ariadne 30 is now available
January 25th, 2002 by Thom BuntingCall for Speakers
January 22nd, 2002 by Thom BuntingThe call for speakers and workshop facilitators for the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2003 to be held at the University of Kent from
11-13 June 2003 is now open.
CORES Schema Creation/Registration Workshop, SZTAKI, Budapest, 6-7 March 2003
January 22nd, 2002 by Thom BuntingThis workshop will provide an introduction to the use of RDF to describe metadata vocabularies in the form of machine-understandable schemas. Practical sessions will allow participants to learn to use the CORES Schema Creation Tool to prepare schemas and submit them to the Registry, and to navigate the schemas submitted via the Registry”s Web interface.
Call for Speakers
January 22nd, 2002 by Thom BuntingThe call for speakers and workshop facilitators for the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2003 to be held at the University of Kent from
11-13 June 2003 is now open.
REVEALed: the truth behind the National Database of Resources in Accessible Formats
January 17th, 2002 by Thom BuntingA joint seminar organised by the Library Association Cataloguing and Indexing Group and UKOLN. Tuesday 26 March 2002 at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Multi-purpose metadata for collections: creating reusable CLDs
December 18th, 2001 by Thom BuntingThe second Collection Description Focus workshop is being held on Friday 8 February 2002 at Aston Business School, Birmingham and you can now register for the event. The workshop will concentrate on how collection-level
descriptions are used and particularly how they are reused in a wide range of contexts.
Multi-purpose metadata for collections creating reusable CLDs
December 18th, 2001 by Thom BuntingCollection Description Focus, Workshop 2 – Multi-purpose metadata for collections creating reusable CLDs – is being held on Friday 8 February 2002 at Aston Business School, Birmingham and you can now register for the event. The second Collection Description Focus workshop will concentrate on how collection-level descriptions are used and particularly how they are reused in a wide range of contexts.
Bibliometrics of electronic journals in information science
November 19th, 2001 by Thom BuntingUKOLN”s ejournals are featured in a recent study published in Information Research.
UKOLN Web sites unavailable
November 13th, 2001 by Thom BuntingUKOLN”s main Web server will be unavailable 8am/9am on Tuesday 27th November 2001 while we add a new disk.
Participation in Renardus evaluation
October 31st, 2001 by Thom BuntingYou can evaluate the Renardus academic subject gateway until 15 November 2001 by exploring the pilot service and completing a Web-based questionnaire. Renardus allows integrated
searching and browsing of participating resource collections across Europe, including those in the Resource Discovery Network.