Understanding and harnessing the opportunities for libraries in today's changing world, is a fundamental objective for Fretwell-Downing Informatics.

Since 1993, FDI has participated in collaborative Research & Technology Development (RTD) through a mixture of UK Department of Trade & Industry, Higher Education Funding Council and European Framework Programme initiatives. The company has a 100% bid success rate and is lead partner in several projects, most of which involve pan-European collaboration.

The results of these projects directly benefit FDI and its customers, as results are a driver for future product developments

Current FDI r&d Projects

COINE - View the Website

The COINE software will provide facilities for rendering everyday objects - texts, images, sound files and so on - digitally. It will provide a framework for the creation and maintenance of descriptions (metadata) and dynamic links to other collections. The Project's findings will assist the development of standards for structured deployment and retrieval of digital resources in distributed networked environments.

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AGORA - click here to download the latest news bulletin

Previous FDI research projects have included:

UNEX
Agora
GAIA
MODELS
Newsagent
PRIDE
Riding
UNIverse