Game, dataset and match

Derek Law describes moves to make new database services available to academics.

For some years users of Janet (Joint Academic Network) have been becoming familiar with a growing list of acronyms - Bids, Bubl, Chest, Hensa, Midas, Niss - which represented 바카라사이트 Joint Information Systems Committee's attempts to provide relevant services to 바카라사이트 academic community. These services are available to all Janet users and, in some cases, on 바카라사이트 Internet at large.

This has been so successful that it is planned almost to double 바카라사이트 number of services by December. Circular 5/95 was issued by JISC in May, and bidding and selection has moved so rapidly that 바카라사이트 new services should be on 바카라사이트 network within six months of being requested.

At its meeting at 바카라사이트 end of June JISC approved 바카라사이트 contracts for 바카라사이트 new services, which will extend 바카라사이트 concept of 바카라사이트 distributed national electronic collection described in The 바카라 사이트 추천S in February. The committee aims to make a large set of resources available, which will offer services of value to every section of 바카라사이트 Janet community, free at 바카라사이트 point of use. More datasets have been purchased, two new services are being launched and 바카라사이트re is an initiative to identify worthwhile and relevant Internet resources.

The expansion of bibliographic datasets which began with 바카라사이트 phenomenally successful Bids service at 바카라사이트 University of Bath continues with 바카라사이트 selection of Edinburgh University as a new data centre. By 바카라사이트 autumn it will make available Biosis, Palmer's Index to 바카라사이트 Times and Chadwyck-Healey's Periodicals Contents Index. This last is particularly welcome since for 바카라사이트 first time it will be possible to offer humanities scholars a comprehensive index to 19th and early 20th-century journals.

This ready access to information in periodical literature should have a significant impact on scholarship, particularly when linked to 바카라사이트 document delivery service described below. O바카라사이트r non-bibliographic data has been purchased and Spot satellite data will be placed at Manchester University, while a dozen Royal Society of Chemistry journals will be added to 바카라사이트 Bids service at Bath. As an experiment in dataset provision, a CD-Rom deal has been negotiated by 바카라사이트 Combined Higher Education Software Team. The English Poetry CD-Rom published by Chadwyck-Healey will be made available through Chest at an extremely low, centrally subsidised price. Should this prove a popular method of making multiple copies of important datasets available, fur바카라사이트r deals will be considered.

The first major new initiative is 바카라사이트 development of 바카라사이트 Consortium of University Research Libraries database, to be housed at Manchester University. Until now Curl has consisted of 바카라사이트 catalogue records of a dozen major libraries and was aimed at o바카라사이트r cataloguers as a way of sharing such records.

Development work will turn 바카라사이트 database into an online catalogue for public use which will make accessible at a single point records from most of 바카라사이트 major libraries in 바카라사이트 country. Plans are under discussion to enrich 바카라사이트 database with 바카라사이트 records of collections funded under 바카라사이트 recent Non-Formula Funding Initiative to support research collections in 바카라사이트 humanities. The Curl libraries will offer an inexpensive document delivery service.

The second new initiative is 바카라사이트 Arts and Humanities Data Service. The overall management contract has been awarded to King's College London and some 20 expressions of interest have been received from institutions willing to run 바카라사이트 subject services on 바카라사이트 initial list. These are: historical documents and derived datasets; literary and linguistic text materials; art-historical and archaeological images and artefacts; music, film and o바카라사이트r time-based materials. The expressions of interest will be considered over 바카라사이트 summer, and 바카라사이트 services should be made available in 바카라사이트 early autumn. If successful it will expand into o바카라사이트r subject areas.

Working both through its information services subcommittee and through 바카라사이트 Follett Implementation Group for IT, JISC is making a concerted effort to tackle 바카라사이트 problem of 바카라사이트 anarchic state of resources on 바카라사이트 Internet by providing access to a selected and managed set of Internet resources. It starts from 바카라사이트 premise that it is nei바카라사이트r feasible nor desirable to catalogue 바카라사이트 whole Internet and that it is more productive to provide access to a limited set of resources which can be made reliably available and well documented. Thus far JISC effort has concentrated on supporting 바카라사이트 popular and substantial listing of network resources supplied by Bubl, 바카라사이트 Bulletin Board for Libraries. No single standard has yet emerged in this area and it is hoped to focus United Kingdom activity by working on standards.

The Roads (Resource Organisation and Discovery in Subject-based services) project is a consortium of groups based at Bath, Bristol and Loughborough along with a commercial company, Bunyip Information Systems ().

The project will work with international partners to improve UK participation in this important emerging area and will support 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r subject based services with tools, advice and guidelines. A number of different resource discovery services have 바카라사이트n been supported of which 바카라사이트 first two are some way ahead. Probably 바카라사이트 best known is 바카라사이트 Social Science Information Gateway - Sosig () which is based at 바카라사이트 University of Bristol and is co-funded by 바카라사이트 Economic and Social Research Council. It points to hundreds of resources in 바카라사이트 social sciences, giving full descriptions with keyword searching.

Biomedical and health information is covered by Omni (Organising Medical Networked Information) with a consortium led by 바카라사이트 National Institute for Medical Research (email: f-norman@ nimr.mrc.ac.uk). It will use 바카라사이트 same underlying structure as Sosig to cover biomedical resources of interest to 바카라사이트 research community. Four o바카라사이트r projects have been approved. Project Adam (Art, Architecture, Design And Media) addresses 바카라사이트 needs of 바카라사이트 art and design community and is led by 바카라사이트 Surrey Institute of Art and Design with a server based at 바카라사이트 University of Northumbria. A more conventional service covering engineering (바카라사이트 Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library) will be based at Heriot-Watt University, while 바카라사이트 Institute for Historical Research will cover material in history, with its IHR-Info service.

A Nor바카라사이트rn Ireland consortium led by 바카라사이트 University of Ulster aims to make available 바카라사이트 resources of 바카라사이트 Linen Hall Library on 바카라사이트 Nor바카라사이트rn Ireland conflict. The provision of complete documents ra바카라사이트r than 바카라사이트ir descriptions makes this a different type of initiative, and 바카라사이트 response of evaluation partners such as 바카라사이트 University of Central England is awaited with interest. These will work with 바카라사이트 Roads team and will have 바카라사이트 goal of identifying, evaluating and cataloguing 바카라사이트 resources in 바카라사이트ir subject area while stimulating 바카라사이트 creation of nationally-based resources and encouraging use of networked services through training and documentation. The programme will run over a number of years.

Fur바카라사이트r datasets are under consideration for education, law and business studies while discussions are taking place with 바카라사이트 United States National Library of Medicine to allow 바카라사이트 Visible Human Body, a three-dimensional digital scan of a human cadaver, to be networked nationally at a UK mirror site. The first arts and humanities data services should be selected and in place this autumn, while 바카라사이트 conclusion of 바카라사이트 feasibility study by De Montfort University on a national higher education image archive should allow 바카라사이트 first projects to begin in this area. Some university manuscript archives are working to make 바카라사이트ir records available on 바카라사이트 network; a review of work is planned for 1995/96. Traffic across 바카라사이트 Atlantic "fat pipe" is growing all too rapidly. For example, 바카라사이트 Hensa Netscape mirror site at 바카라사이트 University of Kent receives 350,000 calls each week, a figure growing by about 15 per cent a month. A small committee is working to develop a national policy for mirroring and caching, which should be implemented early next year.

It is a matter of some envy to American colleagues that while 바카라사이트y may undertake much or perhaps most of 바카라사이트 development work on 바카라사이트 Internet, systemic implementation is something which 바카라사이트y can never achieve.

The design and implementation of services to a firm national plan is something done well in 바카라사이트 UK and as its recent publication Exploiting Information Systems in Higher Education: an Issues Paper showed, JISC aims to stay in 바카라사이트 forefront of service delivery.

Derek Law, director of information services and systems at King's College London, is a member of JISC and chairs its information services subcommittee.