Conspectus and the Scottish Collections Network : landscaping the Scottish common information environment
Dunsire, Gordon (2006) Conspectus and the Scottish Collections Network : landscaping the Scottish common information environment. Signum, 3. pp. 20-27.
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Abstract
The article briefly gives the background to the concept of a common information environment, followed by a history of the development of two major components of a common information environment for Scotland in the form of the Scottish Collections Network, a collections description service, and the Cooperative Information Retrieval Network for Scotland, a distributed union catalogue for meta-searching. The article discusses the application in Scotland of the Conspectus methodol-ogy for the subject mapping of general library collections, and describes how Conspectus data has been integrat-ed in the information environment to allow the identifi cation and selection of collections and associated catalogues with strength in specifi c subjects.
Item type: Article ID code: 3177 Dates: DateEvent2006PublishedKeywords: common information environment, Scotland, interoperability, scottish collections network, catalogues, metadata, terminologies, collection description, Electronic information resources Subjects: Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Information resources > Electronic information resources Department: Professional Services > Information Services Depositing user: Strathprints Administrator Date deposited: 16 May 2007 Last modified: 18 Mar 2021 02:09 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/3177
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