ROADS Progress Report - UKOLN

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For ROADS Executive Meeting, Centre Point, London, 17 February 1998.

UKOLN The UK Office for Library and Information Networking.

Work on ROADS at UKOLN has been in the following areas:

Technical Developments:

In connection with a new ROADS-based WebFocus database on its web site, AP has produced a draft DUBLINCORE template type. Records in the database will describe resources of interest to those running web sites in the UK. It is planned to construct this database using Dublin Core templates. There is a draft entry for the DUBLINCORE template in the ROADS template registry.

Available from: <URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/roads/templates/dublincore.html>.

AP has produced a document describing how a ROADS database could be used to hold Dublin Core metadata about local Web pages and to have that metadata embedded into the pages dynamically using a server side include script. This also would use the DUBLINCORE template type.

Available from: <URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/roads/metadata-mgmt/>.

A description of the proposed enhancement and integration of ZEXI/Isite with ROADS and NewsAgent can be found at:

<URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/roads-newsagent-dev/>.

Interoperability:

MD has produced a first draft of some generic ROADS cataloguing guidelines. This includes some discussion concerning the use of specific formats for dates, languages and names and also on 'mandatory' elements. Comments are currently being collected and a revised version is due in March.

Available from: <URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/roads/cataloguing/>

There has been a revision of UKOLN's Web pages on ROADS and interoperability.

Available from: <URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/roads/interoperability/>

Workshops and other meetings:

AP and LD ran a tutorial session on metadata for a DGXIII/E-4 organised Metadata Workshop held in Luxembourg,1-2 December 1997.

Summary available from: <URL:http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/ec/metadata-1997/>

RH attended a meeting of the NSF/ERCIM Working Group on Metadata in Washington, DC, 2-3 February 1998.

Maintained by: Michael Day.
Last updated: 12-February-1997