"A centre of excellence in digital information management, providing advice and services to the library, information and cultural heritage communities."

Job Title:

Research Officer

Contact Details:

UKOLN,
University of Bath,
Bath,
BA2 7AY
tel: +44 (0) 1225 386121
fax: +44 (0)1225 386838
email:a.d.chapman@ukoln.ac.uk

The Job I do

Within the Policy and Advice Team, my work is mainly in the area of Bibliographic Management and Collection Description. Bibliographic management is concerned with the quality, standards and formats of bibliographic records in both current and retrospective cataloguing for material in all physical and digital forms. It also includes performance measurement of bibliographic databases. Collection Description Focus provides a source of information, advice and support on all aspects of collection level description and the development of appropriate metadata standards.

Current projects are:

CLSCP Quality Audit
Revealweb

Committee Membership

Book Industry Communication (BIC) Bibliographic Standards Technical Subgroup

Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG), of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP)

CILIP/BL Committee on AACR/RDA (Chair)

Revealweb Policy Advisory Group

Revealweb Database Management Group

Further Information

More information, including a list of my publications and presentations, can be found on my personal home page.