"A centre of excellence in digital information management, providing advice and services to the library, information and cultural heritage communities."

UKOLN is based at the University of Bath.

Projects and Initiatives

UKOLN is (or has been) involved in a number of activities that are delivering, developing or researching into the issues associated with distributed systems.

• Gate-Z - a Bath Profile compliant Z39.50 gateway
• IMesh Toolkit - an architecture and toolkit for distributed subject gateways
• JISC Information Environment Architecture - material supporting the development of the JISC IE (the DNER)
• MODELS - MOving to Distributed Environments for Library Services
• OA-Forum: Open Archives Forum - a Europe-based focus for dissemination of information about European activity related to open archives and the Open Archive Initiative
• OpenURL demonstrator
• Renardus - Academic Subject Gateway Service Europe
• Resource Discovery Network - a free Internet service dedicated to providing effective access to high quality Internet resources for the learning, teaching and research community.
• UK Interoperability Focus - facilitating connected communities...
• Z-directory - a directory of Z39.50 targets in the UK with links to other international directories

Links to Resources

• Open Source Software for Digital Repositories: DSpace and Fedora
• RSS
• Open Archives Initiative
• Z39.50 in Europe - a number of North American resources are inevitably included, although the European dimension is emphasised where possible.

Previous Activities

• Agora - an eLib phase 3 hybrid library project