| Project Name | Description | Url | Info from? | date info found | comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MetaChem | MetaChem is a single Web-based focal point for access to chemistry information resources of all kinds. The gateway provides access to Internet information such as electronic chemistry publications and databases, research projects, data sources, software, online teaching modules, directories, conferences etc. In addition, the gateway provides links, through library catalogues and document delivery services, to print information. | http://metachem.ch.adfa.edu.au/ | http://metachem.ch.adfa.edu.au/about.html | 2000-10-31 | |
| Litgate | Litgate can help you find high quality literature resources on the Internet. Litgate is currently an experimental service and is initially only pointing to literary resources coming out of and/or relating to the main ethnic minority communities living in the UK. Uses ROADS. | http://roads.ukoln.ac.uk/litgate/ | http://roads.ukoln.ac.uk/litgate | 2000-10-31 | |
| UKOLN UK Office for Library and Information Networking | UKOLN is a national focus of expertise in digital information management. It provides policy, research and awareness services to the UK library, information and cultural heritage communities. UKOLN is based at the University of Bath. | http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ | http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ | 2000-10-31 | |
| BIBLINK | Project BIBLINK ran from 1st April 1996 to 15th February 2000, with funding from the European Commission's Telematics Applications Programme. Its aim was to establish a relationship between national bibliographic agencies and publishers of electronic material, in order to establish authoritative bibliographic information that would benefit both sectors. | http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/biblink/ | http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/biblink/ | 2000-10-31 | |
| DutchESS | DutchESS, Dutch Electronic Subject Service, is a Dutch national subject gateway aimed at the academic community. Quality resources are selected and classified according to the Nederlandse Basisclassificatie (Dutch Basic Classification). The service used to be named after the classification scheme: NBW, Nederlands Basisclassificatie Web (Dutch Classification Web), but was renamed when the new restructered and improved version was released in August 1997. | http://www.konbib.nl/dutchess/ | http://www.konbib.nl/dutchess/docs/info.html | 2000-10-31 | |
| DONOR (Dutch Electronic Subject Service) | The objective of DONOR is to create an enabling infrastructure for information management and retrieval on SURFnet, the national research network of the Netherlands. DONOR will provide a co-ordinated approach to document and metadata management on the Web. Areas of special interest are metadata, structure and version management of web publications, unique identification of information units and information filtering techniques. Search Engines of SURFnet bv will be modified to ensure that the implementation of standards and techniques on the level of information management will provide tangible results in the area of retrieval. | http://www.kb.nl/coop/donor/ | http://www.kb.nl/coop/donor/project-en-index.html?/coop/donor/factsheet-eng.html | 2000-10-31 | |
| VTS Virtual Training Suite | The RDN Virtual Training Suite is a national initiative designed to teach Internet information skills to the higher and further education communities in the UK. It comprises a set of "teach yourself" tutorials, delivered over the Web, each of which offers Internet information skills training in a particular subject area. | http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/ | http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/aboutus.htm | 2000-10-31 | |
| ILRT Institute for Learning and Research Technology | The core of the Institute is focused on a suite of projects and services in the development and use of ICT, supplemented by complementary training, advisory and consultancy activities. | http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ | http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/aboutus/ | 2000-10-31 | |
| PRIDE | pride is an EC funded project with partners in the UK, France, Hungary, Australia, Germany and Ireland. We're just completing the design phase of the project. To summarise, we're intending to build the PRIDE Directory - an LDAP and X.500 based directory, incorporating descriptions of people, user-profiles, organisations and other groups, collections and services, and to use this directory as the basis for a number of demonstrator scenarios, including: - resource (at the collection/service level) discovery - alerting (matching profiles against new resource descriptions) - authentication and payment - dynamic client configuration based on information held in the PRIDE directory (e.g. Z39.50 and ILL) | http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/pride/ | http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/mailing-lists/ukoln-external-open/imesh-workshop/0032.html | 2000-10-31 | |
| TF-CHIC | CHIC is the task force concerned with the coordination of harvesting and indexing of network resources for building resource discovery databases for TERENA members. CHIC also addresses related subjects, for instance the relation between indexing and caching (together with the CHOC project), archival of Web resources, and harvesting for specific scientific purposes (e.g., bibliometric research). | http://www.terena.nl/task-forces/tf-chic/ | http://www.terena.nl/task-forces/tf-chic/ | 2000-10-31 | |
| NewsAgent | NewsAgent is a free personal alerting service for library and information professionals, run by LITC. When you join you will be sent alerts of news relevant to your professional interests. | http://www.sbu.ac.uk/litc/newsagent/ | http://www.sbu.ac.uk/litc/newsagent/ | 2000-10-31 |