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The following newsletter for those in libraries, museums and archives
interested in internet developments is now mounted in HTML and PDF
formats in English and very shortly in Spanish at
http://www.covax.org.
COVAX News
Issue 3 October 2001
Contemporary Culture Virtual Archive in XML
Covax aims:
7 build a web service for European Contemporary Culture
7 make accessible over the Internet existing document descriptions
7 satisfy access provision needs of Memory Institutions
7 achieve inter-operability between systems through standards
The latest newsletter contains the following articles:
Contents
How do users want online databases to work?
Results of a general survey of user needs are summarised.
PARTNER PROFILE: Ente per le Nuove tecnologie l'Energia e l'Ambiente
(ENEA)
ENEA is a research and innovation centre and user partner in the
project.
COVAX metasearch engine and access to native XML-data bases
The metasearch engine is the core component for distributed XML based
queries to remote repositories. This article explains how it works and
how it was was modified to deal with a new type of native XML database
software, TEXTML.
TEXTML at Blekinge Tekniska Hvgskola
Peter Linde describes some technical management issues for a local XML
repository from a Swedish academic and archives perspective.
Events
Covax has been presented to archivists in Wales, and readers are
encouraged to visit the South Bank University/LITC stand 294 at Online
Information 2001 - London, UK, 4-6 December, 2001
http://www.online-information.co.uk/
LITC is an exhibitor with the London Aspect training agency at this
major event and Robin Yeates will be present to discuss Covax.
COVAX-IST-1999-11820
A website has been established in Catalan, English, German, Italian,
Spanish, and Swedish at http://www.covax.org, where you can find other
issues of Covax News and other information about the project.
Carlos Wert, the project Coordinator and Francisca Hernandez have
published an introductory article on Covax in Cultivate Interactive
Issue 3 January 2001 (http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/covax/).
LITC, South Bank University
103 Borough Road
London
SE1 0AA
Phone: +44 20 7815 6924
Fax: +44 20 7815 7050
Email: [log in to unmask]
Project coordinator
Carlos Wert
Residencia de Estudiantes
Pinar, 23
28006 Madrid
Spain.
Email: [log in to unmask]
URL: http://www.covax.org
Rights and disclaimer
COVAX is part funded by the European Commission.
The authors are solely responsible for the content of this newsletter.
The site does not represent the opinion of the Community and the
Community is not responsible for any use that might be made of data
appearing herein.
Reproduction of the newsletter is authorised, except for commercial
purposes, provided the source is acknowledged.
Some of the documents and multimedia sequences in this newsletter and on
the COVAX website might contain references, or pointers, to information
maintained by other organisations. Please note that we do not control
and cannot guarantee the relevance, timeliness or accuracy of these
outside materials.
) COVAX 2001
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Robin Yeates
Associate Director
LITC, South Bank University
Postal address: 103 Borough Rd, London SE1 0AA United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (020) 7815 6924
Fax: +44 (020) 7815 7050
email: [log in to unmask]
URL: http://www.sbu.ac.uk/litc
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