Interoperability Focus: Publications

Interoperability Focus produces written material on a variety of topics relevant to the community.

Other UKOLN staff are responsible for a wealth of related material, much of which is available from UKOLN's publication lists for metadata, Web Focus, Public Library Research, Distributed Library and Information Systems, and Bibliographic Management.

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2007

• Poster: A user-centred approach to metadata design.
  Emma Tonkin, September 2007
  Proceedings of ECDL

• Real-world metadata registries; sharing concepts, schemas and semantics.
  Emma Tonkin, May 2007
  XTech 2007 .

• Video streaming: remote participation and engagement in the conference environment.
  Emma Tonkin and Gregory Tourte - February 2006.
  Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on Web-Based Communities 2007
  HTML: <URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/publications/iadis-02-2007/>

2006

• Searching the long tail: hidden structure in social tagging.
  Emma Tonkin - November 2006.
  Proceedings of the 17th ASIS SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop
  HTML: <URL: http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM06/sigcr.html>
• Signed metadata: method and application
  Emma Tonkin and Julie Allinson - October 2006.
  In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC2006: Metadata for Knowledge and Learning)
  
• The Fall and Rise of Plain-text Tagging
  Emma Tonkin - April 2006.
  Ariadne 47
  HTML: <URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue47/tonkin/>
• Personalisation and Accessibility: Integration of Library and Web Approaches
  Ann Chapman, Brian Kelly (plus L. Nevile and A Heath) - May 2006.
  Poster Proceedings of the WWW2006 Conference
  HTML: <URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/publications/www2006/>
• Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags?
  Marieke Guy and Emma Tonkin - January 2006.
  D-Lib Magazine 12/1
  HTML: <URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january06/guy/01guy.html>

2005

• Creative Commons and the Information Professional, May/June 2005 issue, 4-6
  Marieke Guy - June 2005.
  HTML: <URL: http://www.managinginformation.com/Catalogue/contentsjune2005.htm>
• MARC Relator Properties in Dublin Core Metadata
  Pete Johnston - June 2005.
  HTML: <URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/marcrel-ex/>
• NISO Z39.91-200x, Collection Description Specification
  Standards Committee BB (Task Group 2): Collection & Service Descriptions (Pete Johnston, contributor) - November 2005.
  NISO Draft Standard for Trial Use. (Effective November 1, 2005 - October 31, 2006)
  PDF: <URL: http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-91-DSFTU.pdf>
• A Standards Framework For Digital Library Programmes
  Brian Kelly, Rosemary Russell, Pete Johnston, Alastair Dunning, Paul Hollins and Lawrie Phipps - September 2005.
  Proceedings of the ICHIM 05 Conference, Paris, France, 21-23 September 2005
  HTML/MS Word: <URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/papers/ichim05/>
• Element Refinement in Dublin Core Metadata
  Pete Johnston - June 2005.
  DCMI Recommended Resource
  HTML: <URL: http://dublincore.org/documents/dc-elem-refine/>
• DCMI Abstract Model
  Andy Powell, Mikael Nilsson, Ambjörn Naeve, Pete Johnston - March 2005.
  DCMI Recommendation
  HTML: <URL: http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/>
• Making the Case for a Wiki
  Emma Tonkin
  Ariadne 42
  HTML: <URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue42/tonkin/>

2004

• The JISC Information Environment Service Registry
  Pete Johnston - June 2004.
  Collection Description Focus Briefing Paper No 3
  HTML: <URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/cd-focus/briefings/bp3/>
• Technical Guidelines for Digital Cultural Content Creation Programmes
  Minerva Project (Pete Johnston, editor/contributor) - April 2004.
  Collection Description Focus Briefing Paper No 3
  HTML: <URL: http://www.minervaeurope.org/structure/workinggroups/servprov/documents/techguid1_0.pdf>
• Guidelines for encoding identifiers in Dublin Core and IEEE LOM metadata
  Andy Powell, Pete Johnston, Lorna Campbell and Phil Barker - March 2004.
  HTML: <URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi-ieee/identifiers/>

2003

• Towards a Typology for Portals
  Paul Miller - October 2003.
  Ariadne 37
  HTML: <URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue37/miller/>
• Metadata and interoperability in a complex world: Reflections on DC-2003
  Pete Johnston - October 2003.
  Ariadne 37
  HTML: <URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue37/dc-2003-rpt/>
• Understanding the International Audiences for Digital Cultural Content
  Paul Miller, David Dawson and John Perkins - June 2003.
  D-Lib Magazine 9/6
  HTML: <URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june03/miller/06miller.html>
• Approaches to Validation of Dublin Core Metadata Embedded in (X)HTML Documents
  Brian Kelly, Pete Johnston & Andy Powell - May 2003.
  Poster at The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference, 20-24 May 2003, Budapest, Hungary.
• Syndicated Content: it's more than just some file formats
  Paul Miller - April 2003.
  Ariadne 35
  HTML: <URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/miller/>
• Guidelines for implementing Dublin Core in XML.
  Andy Powell & Pete Johnston - April 2003.
  DCMI Recommendation
  HTML: <URL: http://dublincore.org/documents/dc-xml-guidelines/>
• An introduction to Web Services for Cultural Heritage Professionals
  Paul Miller - February 2003.
  DigiCULT.Info 3
  PDF: <URL: http://www.digicult.info/downloads/digicult_info3.pdf> pp. 21-23

2002

• The MEG Registry and SCART: complementary tools for creation, discovery and re-use of metadata schemas.
  Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston, Dave Beckett and Damian Steer - October 2002.
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata for e-Communities, 2002
  Florence: Firenze University Press, 2002, pp. 125-132.
  PDF: <URL: http://www.bncf.net/dc2002/program/ft/paper14.pdf>
• Portals, PORTALs Everywhere
  Ian Dolphin, Paul Miller and Robert Sherratt - October 2002.
  Ariadne 33
  HTML: <URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue33/portals/>
• Collaboration, integration & 'recombinant potential'
  Pete Johnston - October 2002.
  Ariadne 33
  HTML: <URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue33/oclc-scurl/>
• Towards a digital Cultural Content Forum
  Paul Miller, David Dawson and John Perkins - July 2002.
  Cultivate 7
  HTML: <URL: http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/washington/>
• Learning Objects and the Information Environment
  Ian Dolphin and Paul Miller - July 2002.
  Ariadne 32
  HTML: <URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue32/iconex/>
• The People's heritage: democratising our memory institutions
  Liz Lyon and Paul Miller - February 2002.
  New Review of Information Networking 7, pp. 185-200
• Re-inventing the Wheel? Standards, Interoperability and Digital Cultural Content
  Tony Gill and Paul Miller - January 2002.
  D-Lib Magazine 8/1
  HTML: <URL: http://dlib.ukoln.ac.uk/dlib/january02/gill/01gill.html>
• The concept of the Portal
  Paul Miller - January 2002.
  Ariadne 30
  HTML: <URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue30/portal/>
• Metadata sharing and XML
  Pete Johnston - January 2002.
  NOF-digitise Technical Advisory Service Information Paper
  HTML: <URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/nof/support/help/papers/metaxml.htm>

2001

• Architects of the Information Age
  Paul Miller - October 2001.
  Ariadne 29
  HTML: <URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue29/miller/>
• A True New Opportunity for Cultural Content Digitisation in the UK
  Paul Miller and Sally Criddle - October 2001.
  Cultivate 5
  HTML: <URL: http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/nof/>
• Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Efforts to Leverage Existing Synergies in Digital Cultural Content Creation Programmes World-wide
  Paul Miller, David Dawson and John Perkins - October 2001.
  Cultivate 5
  HTML: <URL: http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/giants/>
• Interoperability: supporting effective access to information resources Pete Johnston - June 2001.
  Library & Information Briefings (LIBS) 108
  Available from LITC, South Bank University
• Taking a Common View of Educational Metadata
  Paul Miller - April 2001.
  D-Lib Magazine April 2001
  HTML: <URL: http://dlib.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/dlib/april01/04inbrief.html#MILLER>
• After the Big Bang: forces of change and e-Learning
  Pete Johnston - March 2001.
  Ariadne 27
  HTML: <URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue27/johnston/>
• Towards consensus on educational metadata
  Paul Miller - March 2001.
  Ariadne 27
  HTML: <URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue27/meg/>
• Working with the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER): Standards and Guidelines to Build a National Resource
  Edited by Catherine Grout and Caroline Ingram. Written by Neil Beagrie, Hugh Buchanan, Tom Franklin, Catherine Grout, Brian Kelly, Caroline Ingram, Paul Miller, Greg Newton-Ingham, Andy Powell - February 2001.
  JISC policy document HTML: <URL: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/programmes/guidance/DNERStandards.html>
• A Review of Methods of Access to Resources
  Paul Miller, Derek Morrison, and Cris Woolston - January 2001.
  commissioned scoping study for the e-University

2000

Joining the DNER: guidance on interoperating with the Distributed National Electronic Resource (DNER) for product suppliers

Paul Miller and Alicia Wise - September 2000.
JISC policy document
HTML: <URL: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/collections/dner_interoperability.htm>

Towards the intelligent museum

Paul Miller and Alice Grant - September 2000.
Ariadne 25
HTML: <URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue25/cimi/>

Collected Wisdom: some cross-domain issues of Collection Level Description

Paul Miller - September 2000.
D-Lib Magazine 6/9
HTML: <URL: http://dlib.ukoln.ac.uk/dlib/september00/miller/09miller.html> <DOI: 10.1045/september2000-miller>

Survey of Electronic Learning Resources: e-Tools for the e-University Survey 2

edited by Paul Miller, and written by Michael Day, Ian Dolphin, Paul Miller, Derek Morrison, and Cris Woolston - July 2000.
study commissioned by HEFCE as part of defining the scope and extent of the e-University

nof-digitise Technical Standards and Guidelines

edited by Sarah Ormes and Andy Powell, with contributions by Bruce Royan, Sandy Buchanan, Mark Bide, and UKOLN staff - June 2000.
HTML: <URL: http://www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/nof/technicalstandards/>
PDF: <URL: http://www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/nof/technicalstandards/technicalstandards.pdf>

I am a name and a number

Paul Miller - June 2000.
Ariadne 24
HTML: <URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue24/metadata/>

Interoperability: What is it and Why should I Want it?

Paul Miller - June 2000.
Ariadne 24
HTML: <URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue24/interoperability/>
HTML: <URL: http://www.bibnal.edu.ar/interop.htm> (Spanish translation)

The Bath Profile: An International Z39.50 Specification for Library Applications and Resource Discovery

edited by Carrol Lunau, Paul Miller & Bill Moen - June 2000.
Internationally Recognised Profile (IRP) Version 1.1 of this Z39.50 Profile
HTML: <URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/bath/>

I say what I mean, but do I mean what I say?

Paul Miller - March 2000.
Ariadne 23
HTML: <URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue23/metadata/>

1999

The Standards Fora for Online Education

Paul Bacsich, Andy Heath, Paul Lefrere, Paul Miller & Kevin Riley - December 1999.
D-Lib Magazine 5/12
HTML: <URL: http://dlib.ukoln.ac.uk/dlib/december99/12miller.html> <DOI: 10.1045/december99-miller>

Z39.50 Implementor's Group (ZIG), Stockholm

Paul Miller - October 1999.
Exploit Interactive 3
HTML: <URL: http://www.exploit-lib.org/issue3/zig/>

Z39.50 for All

Paul Miller - September 1999.
Ariadne 21
HTML: <URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue21/z3950/>
Print: Vjesnik Bibliotekera Hrvatske 1-2, pp. 69-83. (Croatian translation)

Developing the Bath Profile

Paul Miller - September 1999.
Ariadne 21
HTML: <URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue21/at-the-event/bath-profile.html>

Digital Cultural Heritage Workshop, Maastricht

Paul Miller - July 1999.
Exploit Interactive 2
HTML: <URL: http://www.exploit-lib.org/issue2/maastricht/>

Guidance on expressing the Dublin Core within the Resource Description Framework (RDF)

Eric Miller, Paul Miller & Dan Brickley - April 1999.
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Data Model Working Group Working Draft
HTML: <URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/resources/dc/datamodel/WD-dc-rdf/>

Interoperability Focus

Paul Miller - January 1999.
UKOLN publicity material
HTML: <URL: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/about/>