Collection Description Focus
Showcase

Mapping the Information Landscape:
A Showcase of Collection Description Projects and Services

Tuesday 25th March 2003
The British Library Conference Centre, St Pancras, London

09.30-10.00

Registration and Coffee

10.00-10.10

Welcome
Chairman: Chris Batt, Director, Libraries and Information Society Team, Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries

10.10-10.40

Chris Anderson, New Opportunities Fund & Pete Dowdell, NOF-digitise Technical Advisor, UKOLN, University of Bath
"EnrichUK.net: The nof-digitise Collection Portal"

10.40-11.10

Neil Thomson, Head of Systems & Central Services, Natural History Museum
"Current trends in biodiversity collection description "
Presentation: [Powerpoint] | [HTML]

11.10-11.40

Gordon Dunsire, Depute Director & Dennis Nicholson, Director
Centre for Digital Library Research, Strathclyde University
"CC-interop and SCONE: Extending collection-level description"
Presentation: [Powerpoint] | [HTML]

11.40-12.00

Tea/Coffee

12.00-12.30

Susi Woodhouse, Senior Network Adviser & Nick Poole - ICT Adviser,
Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries.
Presentation: [Powerpoint] | [HTML]

12.30-13.00

Rachel Bruce Infrastructure Programme Manager, Joint Information Systems Commitee (JISC)
"Collection description as Middleware"
Presentation: [Powerpoint] | [HTML]

13.00-14.15

Lunch and Demonstrations

14.15-14.45

14.45-15.00

15.00-15.30

15:30-16.00

Tea/Coffee and Demonstrations

16:00

Close