Monthly News

Events attended

• Pete and Paul both attended the Colloquium on Emerging Information Architectures (www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/activities/events/architectures/) organised by the Interoperability Focus and hosted by the Office of the e-Envoy in London. A report is in preparation.
• Pete and Paul both attended a workshop on "XML and Educational Metadata" organised by LITC and the Easel project, and gave presentations on a number of topics. These are available from our presentations page as usual.
• Paul travelled to Paris to participate in a meeting on the establishment of a database/databases to hold information on digitisation projects underway across Europe (brea.culture.fr/nddr/). This meeting is the first of a French Ministry of Culture-led working group following up on one of the Lund Action Plan work items (www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult/en/eeurope.html).
• Pete attended the latest meeting of MEG, and updated attendees on his ongoing work with the MEG registry.
• Paul organised and attended the International Seminar on National Digital Cultural Content Creation Strategies (http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/activities/events/digitisation-strategies/) at Tate Modern in London. The event was jointly organised with CIMI and Resource, and attracted senior decision makers from Canada, the USA, Europe, and New Zealand, as well as arousing interest amongst others who were unable to make the selected dates at short notice. The meeting identified a raft of areas on which international collaboration appeared both feasible and valuable. A report is in preparation, and we hope to meet again early in 2002 to gauge progress on the current work items, and to examine how best to proceed organisationally.

Publications

• Pete submitted a paper on interoperability for publication as part of the "Library and Information Briefings" series published by LITC.

MEG Concord

• released in December, the Concord now has 62 signatories (www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/education/documents/concord.html).