Thought people might be interested to know about this "workshop".
Roger Fern.
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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:57:02 +0000
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From: Prof Bruce Royan <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Seamless Access to a Nation's Images, Edinburgh, 5 March 2001
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Workshop led by Debby Campbell, National Library of Australia
14:30 (coffee from 14:15), Monday 5 March 2001, Abden House, Edinburgh:
http://www.scran.ac.uk/location/
Admission free: contact [log in to unmask] or Gill <[log in to unmask]>
(Sponsored by SCRAN and the Scottish Library Association Multimedia
Information and Technology Group - SLAMIT)
In the context of "Digital Scotland" and "Scotland's Cultural Strategy",
Information Professionals need to consider how best to provide seamless
access to the resources of Scotland's memory institutions. This workshop
describes PictureAustralia, a project that demonstrates how application of
metadata standards, interoperability protocols and terminology control can
go a long way to providing such seamless end-user access.
The Presenter
Debbie Campbell has worked at the National Library since 1986. With an
Information Technology background, Debbie has provided research and
coordination services to the National Library's PANDORA project and the
MetaWeb project. In 1998, she became the NLA's Metadata Coordinator with a
particular responsibility for assisting national academic and government
gateway projects to achieve the vision originally intended for the
adoption of standard metadata schemas. This role expanded in late 1999 to
encompass planning for, and development of, national infrastructure
projects including PictureAustralia.
The Project
PictureAustralia is a web service based on a metadata Library in Canberra
which links to pictorial images held on the web sites of participating
cultural agencies around Australia. The service has a "hybrid"
architecture with a centralised search index and distributed images.
Users can search the central metadata index at the National Library for
their subject of interest, view image thumbnails in their results, then go
to a participating agency's web site to view a larger version of the image
and order a high resolution copy if needed. The user can navigate between
PictureAustralia and the participating institutions' web sites using the
BACK button on their web browser.
It has been necessary to invoke several standards to smooth out the
anomalies when bringing together what were, until now, physically separate
collections. The software behind PictureAustralia invokes standards both
old and new to the bilbliographic world. A combination of MARC21, the
Dublin Core and Z39.50 have been excercised for PictureAustralia, to
enable physical interoperability.
It was also necessary to ensure the common description of pictorial
collections across Australian libraries, museums and archives. This has
been made possible by the Australian Pictorial Thesaurus. APT uses
contemporary Australian terminology to describe objects, people, places
and structures, activities and concepts depicted in an image.
Prof Bruce Royan, CEO, SCRAN (Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network)
http://www.scran.ac.uk/ tel (+44) 131 662 1211 fax(+44) 131 662 1511
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Roger W. Fern,
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