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Metadata Wanted for the Evanescent Library

editor — Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:00:00 +0000

John MacColl reports on Schemas and Ontologies: Building a Semantic Infrastructure for the GRID and Digital Libraries: a one-day workshop at the e-Science Institute, May 2003.

This event was organised jointly by UKOLN and the National e-Science Centre (NESC) [1]. Liz Lyon, Director of UKOLN, gave the introduction, reminding us that this was the second UKOLN-NESC workshop. The first happened about a year ago, bringing together the digital library and Grid computing communities for the first time. The presentations were as follows:

Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain With SHERPA

editor — Wed, 09 Oct 2002 23:00:00 +0000

John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online.

JISC announced its FAIR Programme (Focus on Access to Institutional Resources) in January of this year. The central objective of the Programme is to test ways of releasing institutionally-produced content onto the web. FAIR describes its scope as:

Electronic Theses and Dissertations: A Strategy for the UK

editor — Sun, 07 Jul 2002 23:00:00 +0000

by John MacColl considers a strategy for electronic theses and dissertations in the United Kingdom.

‘ETDs’ is the acronym widely used in the US to stand for ‘Electronic Theses and Dissertations’. The father of the ETD movement, Professor Ed Fox of Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech), explains the acronym as containing an implicit Boolean ‘OR’: ‘ETs’ OR ‘EDs’ equals ‘ETDs’. This makes for a very convenient shorthand, whereby a digital object which is either an electronic thesis or an electronic dissertation can be referred to as ‘an ETD’.