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.

    Creators(s): Dunsire, Gordon;
    Item type:Article
    ID code:3177
    Keywords: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:14 Feb 2021 01:44
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/3177
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