MODELS

Moving to Distributed Environments for Library Systems

a UKOLN project with funding from eLib (UK Electronic Libraries Programme) and BLRIC (British Library Research and Innovation Centre)

Aim: A forum to address the need for an applications framework to manage the rapidly multiplying range of distributed heterogeneous information resources and services being offered to libraries and their users.

Without an appropriate framework, use of networked information will not be as effective as it should be. MODELS is providing a forum within which the UK library and information communities can explore shared concerns, address design and implementation issues, initiate concerted actions, and work towards a shared view of preferred systems and architectural solutions.

The MODELS project involves the examination of metadata and the collections they describe. Metadata and collections currently reside in multiple disjointed print and digital resource spaces. MODELS seeks to explicate some of the issues involved in reducing this disjointedness and moving towards more unified access to information systems and resources.

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