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Building national and large-scale Internet Information Gateways
Building national and large-scale Internet Information Gateways
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What is an information gateway?
“The Web is quickly becoming the
People are increasingly ...
Librarians are increasingly ...
Information gateways ...
Gateways are an Internet search tool
They offer ...
The key ingredient ...
Characteristics of an information gateway
What gateways are NOT!
What gateways are not 2!
What gateways can be ...
Some national gateway initiatives in Europe
A guided tour ...
URLs
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Information gateways
Why Gateways at all ?
Why Gateways at all ?
Why libraries ?
Why libraries ?
Why National Libraries ?
Benefits, national
Benefits, library
Benefits, users
Benefits of collaboration
The Ideal
The Message
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Information Gateways in perspective
Information gateways in perspective: summary
Spectrum of resource discovery
Characteristics of selective services
Metadata creation
Metadata creation aphorisms
Metadata creation collaboration
Description of BIBLINK Workspace
Shared approaches
Support activities
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Information Gateways and the international perspective
Why co-operate?
Why co-operate?
Why not?
Models for co-operation
Interoperability
Standards
Key initiatives
Key inititatives
Key initiatives (2)
Reynard project
Reynard partners
Demonstrations
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Panel Session
Questions for the panel
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Sustaining resource description
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Setting up a gateway - practical issues
Three parts ...
Coming Soon ...
So what do you need to set up a gateway?
Basic ingredients
Phases in a gateway project
(1) Planning
Scoping
Staff and skills required
System requirements
(2) Set up
(3) Building your collection
(4) Running the service
(5) Ongoing maintenance
(6) Adding new features
(7) Mature gateways
So that’s the overview
Information Issues
Workflow for information staff
Selection
Selection policy
Scope policy
Scope policy
Selection criteria
Examples
Resource description
Resource description - types of data
Metadata
Metadata format
Dublin Core (DC)
DC Examples
A simple format: DutchESS
DutchESS format
More complicated.... ROADS
Providing subject access
Classification
Keywords
Thesauri
Cataloguing a resource
Housekeeping
Staff support
Technical issues
Components of a subject gateway architecture
Components - Web interfaces 1
Components - Web interfaces 2
Interoperability
Other tools
Open source
ROADS gateway toolkit
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Discussion/Surgery
Closing Address
Lunch... then Surgery time
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