ROADS Progress Report from UKOLN
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For ROADS Executive Meeting, Pilkington Library, Loughborough University, 22 April 1999.
Agenda: <URL:http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/roads/exec/next-meet/>
Recent work on ROADS at UKOLN has included the following:
AP (Andy Powell) has completed a study of Collection Level Description by setting-up an sample ROADS database, using an experimental ROADS COLLECTION template (detailed in the ROADS Template Registry), to describe the JISC Current Content Collection. More information can be found at:
<http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/cld/>
Litgate is a UKOLN/West Midlands Regional Library Service initiative. It is intended as a gateway to community language literature Internet resources for public libraries (and their users). The project has no specific funding at the moment and has been established as a demonstrator service to publicise the possibilities of subject gateways in the public library sector.
The gateway was set up by combined efforts of ILRT and UKOLN. A training session for cataloguers was organised with the assistance of ILRT on 23 February.
<http://roads.ukoln.ac.uk/litgate/intro.html>
MP (Manjula Patel) and LD (Lou Daly) are continuing an investigation of LDAP, by using LDAP for a "pilot" public library white pages directory. They are also investigating using LDAP to store quality ratings data, i.e. metadata describing the level of accessibility of resources (use of images, HTML features, etc.).
LD is currently working on the ROADS product comparison. More details will be available shortly.
RH (Rachel Heery) has managed to get copies of template usage statistics from all of the eLib ROADS services plus a few others. An initial report will appear shortly.
TG (Tracy Gardner) has modified the ROADS code to allow URIs to survive the indexing process and to allow template retrieval by URI.
TG has provided a replacement for Rank.pm which supports multiple ranking algorithms via autoloading. The user can select between ranking algorithms from the search page. Also, new algorithms can easily be added.
Lou Daly has recently joined UKOLN as part of its technical development and research team.
RH gave a presentation on the "Implementation of resource descriptions in UKOLN projects" at the Second META-LIB Workshop held at Die Deutsche Bibliothek (DDB), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on the 1-2 February. Slides from the presentation are available at: <URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/presentations/meta-lib/>
TG attended the Open Forum on Metadata Registries in Washington, D.C. on 16-19 February.
MD (Michael Day) gave a paper entitled "Metadata for images: emerging practice and standards" at CIR 99: Second UK Conference on Image Retrieval, Newcastle upon Tyne on the 26 February. Slides from the presentation are available at: <URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/presentations/cir99/>
MD's account of CIR 99 can be found at: <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue19/metadata/>
RH gave a presentation on "Why metadata matters for libraries" at Metadata matters, a seminar organised by the British Computer Society, Electronic and Multimedia Publishing Specialist Group in London on the 10 March. Slides from the presentation are available at: <URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/presentations/bcs/>
AP gave a presentation on "DC and RDF - Status and Future" at the DONOR Workshop held in Utrecht, Netherlands on the 18 March. Slides from the presentation are available at: <URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/presentations/donor/>
MD attended (and gave a paper on preservation metadata) at the Third Metadata Workshop held in Luxembourg on the 12 April.
RH presented a paper on "Description, Discovery, Disclosure: metadata in the information environment" at Making digital documents work, a workshop organised by the Effective Records Management Project, University of Glasgow, on the 15 April. Slides from the presentation are available at: <URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/presentations/erm/>
Michael Day, "All you ever wanted to know about... metadata". Electronic Public Information, March/April 1999, p. 15.
Maintained by: Michael Day, UKOLN.
Last updated: 21-Apr-1999