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Retrospective on the RDN

editor — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:00:00 +0000

Debra Hiom, in the first of a two-part series on the Resource Discovery Network, looks back at the development of the RDN and its activities to date.

Introduction

This article will describe the history of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN) [1], charting the development of subject gateways in the UK since 1993 to the present day. To help set the history of the gateways in the wider context of the resource discovery landscape in the last decade or so, readers are encouraged to refer to Lorcan Dempsey's recent article on the development of digital libraries [2].

Planet-SOSIG

editor — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 23:00:00 +0000

Emma Place assesses the recent SOSIG Social Science Online seminars, Jacky Clake reports on the ESRC Social Science Week and Debra Hiom updates us on the virtual seminar run by SOSIG as part of Social Science Week.

Academics Look to Improve Their Internet Research Skills

Over 130 academics, librarians and researchers attended the SOSIG "Social Science Online" seminars this year, which aimed to help staff develop their Internet research skills and look at ways of teaching these skills to students.

At the Event: The EPrints UK Workshop

editor — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:00:00 +0000

Phil Cross, Debra Hiom and Emma Place report on this workshop which was held at the University of Bath in February 2004.

The workshop was aimed at those interested in setting up institutional e-print servers where the outputs of their organisation (journal articles, papers, reports etc) could be published, stored and searched via a central institutional server. The event was fully booked which perhaps indicates that universities, colleges, academics and librarians are increasingly recognising the value of the e-print publishing model.

Planet SOSIG

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

Debra Hiom highlights some new events, publications and services in the social sciences and Andy Hargrave introduces recent developments for FE in the Bized Service.

Developments in Economics and Business Education Conference (DEBE)

The DEBE conference, held jointly by Economics LTSN and Bized, will take place on September 15-16 2003 in Edinburgh. The conference will comprise a mix of papers, workshops and poster sessions around the themes of

Planet SOSIG

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

Debra Hiom with a report which covers: the launch of Citizenship Past; a new VTS Tutorial for European Studies; and an update on the SOSIG Portals Project.

Launch of Citizenship Past

The launch of Citizenship Past took place on the 12th June. This is a NOF (New Opportunities Fund) consortium whose aim is to digitize over a half a million historical papers and images in order to open up access to archival and government papers in the following areas:

Unlocking Key British Government Publications, 1801-1995: Full Text Digital Library, led by BOPCRIS, Hartley Library, University of Southampton.

Planet SOSIG: Keeping Social Scientists Connected

editor — Wed, 10 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000

Debra Hiom and Emma Place discuss work to keep social scientists connected.

Grapevine is the 'people oriented' side of SOSIG, offering the social science community a place to look at and publicise information about events, career development opportunities and professional colleagues. Grapevine began life in 1998 as an ESRC funded pilot project and was brought under the auspices of SOSIG in February 2000 with the launch of the new interface and associated services of the gateway.

You can use Grapevine to find:

Metadata: Cataloguing Theory and Internet Subject-based Information Gateways

editor — Sat, 19 Dec 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Ann Chapman, Michael Day, and Debra Hiom compare library cataloguing concepts and ROADS Template creation.

Around the Table: Social Sciences

editor — Sun, 18 May 1997 23:00:00 +0000

Debra Hiom from SOSIG takes us on a guided tour of major Internet-based Social Science resources.

The 4th WWW Conference in Boston

editor — Fri, 19 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Debra Hiom and John Kirriemuir provide an informal report from the "cutting edge" of Web development.

This is an informal diary of two delegates who attended the big event for World Wide Web people, namely the 4th International WWW Conference. Debra Hiom, the SOSIG research officer and John Kirriemuir, the UKOLN Information Officer provide the dialogue. The good quality photographs were taken by Debra, on her expensive camera, while the not-so-good quality pictures were taken by John on a cheap and nasty disposable camera (7 dollars).