The BBC becomes the fiftieth organisation to sign the MEG Concord, produced by the UKOLN-facilitated Metadata for Education Group (MEG).
MEG Concord
May 21st, 2001 by Thom BuntingThe fourth issue of Cultivate Interactive is now available
May 8th, 2001 by Thom BuntingIssue 4 contains articles on the new .museum top level domain, Eurospeak, streaming video, the European Museums” Information Institute (EMII) and the Jewish National Library”s Ketubbot Digitisation
Project.
Public Library Networking Focus
May 3rd, 2001 by Thom BuntingUKOLN currently have a vacancy for the post of Public Library Networking Focus. The closing date for applications is Friday 1 June 2001.
Renardus project developments and the wider digital library context
April 19th, 2001 by Thom BuntingRachel Heery, Leona Carpenter and Michael Day, D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 7, no. 4 (April 2001). Now available.
D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 7, no. 4 (April 2001)
April 19th, 2001 by Thom BuntingRachel Heery, Leona Carpenter and Michael Day, “Renardus project developments and the wider digital library context” – now available.
Fifth Institutional Web Management
April 12th, 2001 by Thom BuntingBookings are now being accepted for the Fifth Institutional Web Management Workshop, to be held at Queens University Belfast on 25-27 June.
Ariadne Issue 27
March 28th, 2001 by Thom BuntingThis issue features a number of metadata related articles, including one by Andy Powell and Ann Apps, who propose a mechanism for embedding machine parsable citations into Dublin Core (DC) metadata records. Brian Kelly”s “Web Focus” column suggests that “HTML is Dead”. Streaming video of the recent Manchester Hybrid Library day in February is also available.
3rd SCHEMAS Workshop: Managing schemas in a multilingual Semantic Web
March 19th, 2001 by Thom BuntingSCHEMAS is an EU project which aims to provide support and guidance for metadata schema implementers and designers. This two-day workshop, 10-11 May 2001, in Budapest, Hungary, is being co-ordinated by UKOLN. Contact Joy Fraser, Events Manager (events@ukoln.ac.uk) for bookings.
The Future is Hybrid: Libraries in the 21st Century
February 13th, 2001 by Thom BuntingBookings for the Manchester workshop are now closed, however there are still a few places left for the Edinburgh workshop on 27 February 2001.
Cultivate Interactive Issue 3
January 29th, 2001 by Thom BuntingThe third issue of Cultivate Interactive is available from today. Issue 3 contains articles on the European Visual Archive Project, NINCH, the IST 2000 conference in Nice, SCHEMAS project and Virtual Reality.