MODELS 3: national resource discovery - organising access to printed scholarly material

• Workshop report
  

• Also available is a pre-publication draft of an article based on the workshop which was published in Program: Clumps or ... organised access to printed scholarly material. Please refer to the print version in any citation.

• Clumps page - MODELS 3 developed the concept of 'clumps', groups of distributed catalogues which can be searched together. Clump technical documents including the MODELS Z39.50 Interoperability Profile are available.
  
  
• The EUROPAGATE web to Z39.50 software demonstrates a basic clump service. It allows a group of catalogues to be searched at one time and consolidates the results.
  
  
• MODELS 3 also recommended the commissioning of a scoping study to develop the concept of a 'National Agency for Resource Discovery', which subsequently became operational as Interoperability Focus. The original study was jointly funded by the British Library Research and Innovation Centre and JISC. The final report edited by David Kay is available: [Word 6 format] [RTF] [HTML]

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