OMNI - Organising Medical Networked Information

2nd ANNUAL OMNI SEMINAR
Signposting the Digital Landscape

Thursday 23 January 1997
Wellcome Centre for Medical Science, 183 Euston Road, London

The OMNI project is building a gateway to high quality biomedical
information on the Internet for the higher education and research community
in the UK. Progress and future developments will be discussed at this
Seminar. If you are a biomedical librarian/information officer, information
provider, journalist, end user or computer support staff member with an
interest in the use of biomedical information for teaching or research, then
this is a meeting not to be missed!


***  Programme  ***


09.15 Registration and coffee
10.00 Introduction (Frank Norman, OMNI Project Coordinator)
10.05 Keynote address. The future beyond the eLib Programme. (Lynne
Brindley, Librarian and Director of Information Services, London School of
Economics, and Chairman of JISC's new Committee on Electronic Information)
10.35 OMNI Progress Report. (OMNI Team)
11.20 Coffee
11.45 OMNI: future strategy. (Sally Hernando, OMNI Project Manager)
12.15 Open Forum
12.40 ROADS and metadata. (John Kirriemuir and Brian Kelly, UKOLN)
13.00 Lunch
14.10 Investigating user assessments of the quality of information retrieved
via the Internet. (Alison Cooke, University of Wales Aberystwyth, and  OMNI
Evaluation Criteria Advisory Group)
14.30 The Health On the Net initiatives to get high quality information out
of the Web. (Ron Appel, Health On the Net Foundation)
14.55 Tea
15.20 Economics of the digital library (Mark Meade, BioMedNet)
15.45 NHSnet, NHSweb and NHSweb Directory (David Smith, Department of Health)
16.10 Closing session (Frank Norman, OMNI Project Coordinator)
14.20 Close

Fee: 50 pounds (including lunch and refreshments)

***  OMNI ANNUAL SEMINAR booking form at end of this message  and also on
the OMNI Gateway at http://omni.ac.uk/general-info/seminar2.html  ***

>>>>> You will be sent an acknowledgement of your booking. <<<<<

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Pre-OMNI Netskills event

Netskills will be running a hands-on workshop titled
'An introduction to the Internet' in London on 22 January, the day before
the OMNI Seminar. This workshop will be Medical and Bioscience related
and will introduce Internet services such as email and the World Wide
Web. It will also examine searching the Internet for medical information and
will make extensive use of the OMNI service.

Participants do not need previous Internet experience or knowledge.
The cost of the workshop, including lunch and workshop materials is 45
pounds.

If you are interested in attending the workshop please contact
Netskills.
By Email:
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By Fax:
   0191 222 5001
By post:
   Netskills
   Computing Service
   University of Newcastle
   Newcastle upon Tyne
   Tyne and Wear
   NE1 7RU


Further information about the workshop will appear on the Netskills
Web at http://www.netskills.ac.uk/

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*** 2nd ANNUAL OMNI SEMINAR booking form  ***

Please complete and return this booking form, by Tuesday 14 January,
to Wendy Roberts, Cambridge University Medical Library, Addenbrooke's
Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2SP.
Tel: 01223 336756; Fax: 01223 331918; Email: [log in to unmask]

2nd Annual OMNI Seminar, 23 January 1997

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Wendy Roberts
Assistant Librarian
Cambridge University Medical Library
Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2SP

Tel: 01223 336756   Fax: 01223 331918
E-mail: [log in to unmask]



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