Transcript Slide 1

Themes
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Architecture
Content
Metadata
Interoperability
Standards
Knowledge Organisation Systems
Use and Users
Legal and Economic Issues
The Future
Architecture
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Open Systems
Novel search engines
Intelligent filtering systems
Interfaces
Harvesting
Content
• Strategies for sustainable and scalable
collections
• Encouraging digitisation of collections
• Making accessible the inaccessible
• Publishing commercial and otherwise
• New genres and media
Metadata
• Harvesting
• Pedagogical extensions
• Cross format
Interoperability
• Protocols to assemble materials across
repositories
• Interoperability standards – OAI, Z39.50
Standards
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Collection development
Archiving and archives
Indexing
Metadata
Publishing
Content identification
Knowledge Organisation Systems
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Thesauri
Classification
Semantic Web
Ontologies
Taxonomies
Use and Users
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Empirical studies
Usability testing
Links to VLEs
Different communities
Library as place
Legal and economic
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IPR
Copying and access
Business models and pricing models
Sustainability
The Future
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Distributed collections and links to VLEs
New forms of publishing
Subject not collection based libraries
Advanced search tools
Differentiation of communities
Retrospective digitisation
Knowledge organisation
Collaboration
Semantic web