Collection Description Focus, Briefing Day 1UKOLN

Collected Wisdom

managing resources and enhancing access
through collection-level description

Monday 22 October 2001
British Library, St. Pancras, London


Programme

Monday 22 October, 2001
10:00Registration and Tea/Coffee, BL Conference Centre - Foyer

All sessions will take place in the Auditorium

10:30Welcome
Chair: Liz Lyon, Director, UKOLN
10:35Collection Description : Mapping the Distributed National Collection
Ronald Milne, Programme Director, RSLP

Why should we invest in Collection Description? : Collection Description in the JISC/DNER Information Environment [Slides]
Catherine Grout, Assistant Director (Development), JISC/DNER
11:00Mapping Asia, collection description in an RSLP project : Lessons learned from implementation
Helen Cordell, Special Projects Director, School of Oriental and African Studies
11:30The Researcher's Guide Online at the British Universities Film & Video Council [Slides]
Luis Carrasqueiro, BUFVC
12:00Discussion
Chair: Liz Lyon, UKOLN
12:15Who and what might collection descriptions be for? [Slides]
Alicia Wise, Assistant Director (Collections & Communications), JISC/DNER
12:45Discussion
Chair: Liz Lyon, UKOLN
13:00Lunch will be served in the Foyer
14:00Collection Description in the NOF-digitise programme [Slides]
Sarah Mitchell, Programme Manger, New Opportunities Fund; Susi Woodhouse, Senior Network Adviser, Resource; David Dawson, Senior ICT Adviser, Resource
14:30Collection Description : A cross-domain perspective [Slides]
Paul Miller, Interoperability Focus
15:00Creating electronic resources for the study of forced migration - A researcher's perspective of collection description [Slides]
Marilyn Deegan, Digital Resources Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University
15:30Discussion
Chair: Liz Lyon, UKOLN
16:10Towards consensus on collection-level description [Slides]
Pete Johnston & Bridget Robinson, Collection Description Focus
16:30Close
 

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