AHDS and UKOLN Resource Discovery Workshops

UKOLN has co-operated with the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) in a series of workshops to explore resource discovery issues.

Throughout the early part of 1997, resource discovery workshops were held for each of the AHDS service providers. In October 1997, The AHDS and UKOLN published a book synthesising the results of these workshops together with a proposed implementation of Dublin Core for resource discovery in the humanities. The book also includes a variety of background papers. A printed version is also available from the AHDS.

• Discovering online resources across the humanities: a practical implementation of the Dublin Core edited by Paul Miller and Daniel Greenstein, October 1997. <URL:http://prospero.ahds.ac.uk/public/metadata/discovery.html>

Reports from the workshops held by individual AHDS service providers are also available

• Resource Discovery Workshops: Final Report from the Archaeology Data Service by Paul Miller and Alicia Wise. Last modified: 4 August 1997. <URL:http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/ahds/project/metadata/workshop1_final_report.html>
• Discovering Digital Resources : a Workshop for Historians. Draft Workshop Report by Cressida Chappell and Sheila Anderson. A report from the resource discovery workshop organised by the History Data Service, and held at the University of Essex, 18th and 19th April 1997. <URL:http://hds.essex.ac.uk/metadata/draft_report01.html>
• Metadata for Electronic Texts Workshop Report: A report of the results of the metadata workshop organized by the Oxford Text Archive in Oxford, 2nd May 1997. Last modified: 7 August 1997. <URL:http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/reports/metarep1.html>
• Sound Resources: DRAFT report from the Performing Arts Data Service by Celia Duffy and Catherine Owen. Last modified: 23 July 1997. <URL:http://pads.ahds.ac.uk/workshops/mu_rep.html>
• Moving Image Resources: DRAFT report from the Performing Arts Data Service by Celia Duffy and Catherine Owen. Last modified: 23 July 1997. <URL:http://pads.ahds.ac.uk/workshops/mi_rep.html>
• Visual Arts, Museums & Cultural Heritage Metadata Workshop Report by Catherine Grout and Tony Gill. Last modified: 9 June 1997. <URL:http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/Metadata1.html>

Some background papers related to the workshop series:

• Proposal to Identify Shared Metadata Requirements: a proposal to the Information Services Sub-Committee (ISSC) of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Higher Education Funding Councils (HEFCs), submitted by Lorcan Dempsey and Daniel Greenstein, drafted by J. Trant, 6 September 1996. <URL:http://ahds.ac.uk/manage/proposal.html>
• Resource Discovery Workshops: a guide to implementation and participation prepared by Paul Miller. Last modified: 23 May 1997. <URL:http://www.york.ac.uk/~apm9/focus01.html>

Maintained by: Michael Day
Last modified: 30 October 1997