| Project Name | Description | Url | Info from? | date info found | comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netlab | NetLab grew out of the project ``Lund University Electronic Library'' which started during the spring 1992. It was among the first digital libraries in the world using WAIS databases and later Gopher and WWW. The goal was to build a comprehensive and organized collection of electronic resources and services which are offered to researchers, students and teachers at Lund University as well as the rest of the Internet community. The objectives for NetLab are: to run projects involving networked information with special applications to library tasks and to raise the common level of competence; o promote an increased level of knowledge about networked information services and techniques; to follow and contribute to the technical and methodological development within information science and information retrieval. | http://www.lub.lu.se/netlab/ | http://www.lub.lu.se/netlab/ | 2000-10-31 | |
| Combine | Combine is an open system for harvesting and threshing (indexing) Internet resources. The name is derived from the combine-harvester since the two perform their jobs in a similar way. | http://www.lub.lu.se/combine/ | http://www.lub.lu.se/combine/ | 2000-10-31 | |
| Safari | SAFARI is a system for disseminating Swedish research information on the Internet. It will allow various groups, such as journalists, upper secondary school students, firms and other organisations, to find information from research throughout the whole of Sweden, by only having to search for the information at a single source. SAFARI is an acronym (in Swedish) translated as 'the spreading of research information to the general public over the Internet'. Includes sections on Biomedical sciences, humanities, exact sciences, judicial science, social sciences, technological sciences. -- annotated internet resources. | http://safari.hsv.se/ | http://safari.hsv.se/index.html.en | 2000-10-31 | |
| EEVL | EEVL is a fairly down-to-earth service. We use our own software and we seem to do things slightly our own way, although we do try to ensure that we can fit in with other projects and services if the need arises. For example, we are cooperating with AVEL, the Australian Virtual Engineering Library, and we hope to work with AVEL more in the future. In a similar way to what John Kirriemuir said about OMNI, EEVL will be extending into a hub-based service called EMC, covering Engineering, Mathematics and Computing. Anyone interested in these subject areas - do please get in touch. [dated: Tue May 25 1999 - 16:06:53 BST | http://www.eevl.ac.uk/ | http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/mailing-lists/ukoln-external-open/imesh-workshop/0011.html | 2000-10-31 | |
| IMS | IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. (IMS) is developing and promoting open specifications for facilitating online distributed learning activities such as locating and using educational content, tracking learner progress, reporting learner performance, and exchanging student records between administrative systems. | http://www.imsproject.org/ | http://www.imsproject.org/aboutims.html | 2000-10-31 | |
| Harmony | The Harmony Project, a international collaboration funded by DSTC, JISC, and NSF , will investigate a number of key issues in describing such complex multimedia resources in digital libraries: Collaborate with metadata communities to develop and refine developing metadata standards that describe multimedia components. Investigate a conceptual model for interoperability among community-specific metadata vocabularies. Such a conceptual model should be able to represent the complex structural and semantic relationships in multimedia resources Investigate mechanisms for expressing such a conceptual model, including technologies currently under development in the W3C (XML, RDF, and their associate schema mechanisms). Develop mechanisms to map between community specific vocabularies using such a conceptual model. | http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/harmony/ | http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/harmony/ | 2000-10-31 | |
| Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) Project | A gateway, among other things During the course of the first year of the project, we developed a 23 element set (Dublin Core, plus 8 elements specific to education) to described educational resources. We also developed tools to generate and harvest metadata, and tools to build a searchable and browseable catalog. Training materials and a "help" system were also developed. In January 1998, The Gateway catalog went live with approximately 800 resources from 5 collections. We currently have over 6600 resources from approximately 100 distributed collections. Our Consortium membership has also broken the 100 mark. And we continue to refine and improve the applications for the project.[dated: Fri May 28 1999 - 17:23:49 BST ] | http://geminfo.org/ | http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/mailing-lists/ukoln-external-open/imesh-workshop/0033.html | 2000-10-31 | |
| Virtual Faculty Library at the State und University Library, Dansk | "The Virtual Faculty Library" (VFL). A cooperation between the State and University Library and the University of Aarhus -- both located in Aarhus, Denmark -- VFL is one of the first projects in the programme The Danish Electronic Research Library, a joint initiative by three Danish government offices. The VFL will be a subject-based user-oriented gateway to quality controlled electronic resources on the Internet. The target users are students and staff at the faculties of Social Sciences (SAM) and Natural Sciences (NAT) at the University of Aarhus. These users will to a great extent be involved in the selection and annotation of resources. As far as possible, documents produced at SAM and NAT will be made directly available in an electronic form under the VFL. | http://www.statsbiblioteket.dk/virfakbib/ | http://www.statsbiblioteket.dk/virfakbib/projekt-infoUK.html | 2000-10-31 | |
| Australian Chemistry Network (OzChemNet) | serving electronic resources in Chemistry and related disciplines since 22 February, 1994 | http://www.ch.adfa.edu.au/ | http://www.ch.adfa.edu.au/apa/apa.html | 2000-10-31 |