Hyper Clumps, Mini Clumps and National Catalogues....

0930

Registration

1030

Welcome & Introduction

Contextual information on the event, the origins and purpose of the CC-interop project

Chair: Bob Sharpe
Director of Information & Learning Studies, University of Plymouth

Presentation

1040

Keynote speech: the concept of a 'national catalogue'

To include:

• The recent development of this concept - from UKNUC to the RLN's National Catalogue;
• Specific mention of the SUNCAT project;
• The end-user communities to be served by such a 'hyper' service;
• The implications of resource discovery for access to and/or the delivery of those resources; etc.

Jean Sykes
Librarian & Director of Information Services, London School of Economics and Political Science

Presentation

1110

Coffee

1130

Interoperability: architectures and connections

A session highlighting technical interoperability

• An architectural overview of the resource landscape: large-scale physical and virtual union catalogues
• The standards that enable interconnectivity and issues to consider
• CC-interop's application of JAFER; its potential role in this landscape (incl. live demonstration).
• Z39.50 search times analysis

John Gilby
M25 Systems Team

Ashley Sanders
Copac Team

Presentation

1210

Making sense of hybrid union catalogues:collection
landscaping in complex information environments

The concept of end-user oriented dynamic landscaping.

Gordon Dunsire
Deputy Director,
Centre for Digital Library Research(CDLR)

Presentation

1240

Lunch

1340

Interoperability: the performance of institutional catalogues

The micro perspective.  Semantic interoperability, with particular regard to:

• The need for vendor application of the Bath (or similar) Profile;
• Catalogue record creation and indexing practices.

Fraser Nicolaides
M25 Systems Team

George Macgregor
Researcher, CDLR

Presentation

1410

User behaviour in large-scale resource discovery contexts

Summary of CERLIM's findings, with emphasis on end-users' conception of the utility/usability of union catalogues

Dick Hartley
Head of Information and Communications
Manchester Metropolitan University

Presentation

1440

Tea

1500

Futures

Summary of main themes, with particular emphasis on any especially problematical or contentious issues and areas worthy of further research. JISC's response to the project's findings.

Jean Sykes & Bob Sharpe

Presentation: Jean Sykes
Presentation: Bob Sharpe

1530

Plenary Q&A session

Questions; statements; etc. from the delegates.

Chaired panel

1600

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