University of Bath, UKOLN

UKOLN is based at the University of Bath, UK and is funded by MLA: the Museums, Libraries & Archives Council; the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the funding bodies for higher and further education in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.  UKOLN also receives support from the University of Bath. UKOLN aims to inform practice and influence policy in the areas of digital libraries; metadata and resource discovery; distributed library and information systems; bibliographic management; and Web technologies. It carries out research and development work, provides network information services, including the Ariadne magazine, and runs workshops and conferences.

Previous relevant research and development activities include UKOLN’s involvement in carrying out applied and technical research in key areas of interest to stakeholder communities. A number of themes underlie UKOLN project work; namely research into the development and use of emerging metadata standards; open access to data and journal article eprint repositories; digital preservation; and the management of metadata schemas. These themes, central to the development of digital libraries, also support the core-funded work programme. UKOLN’s research and development work has an international reputation and staff actively contribute to the ongoing development of the Dublin Core. UKOLN is the UK DCMI Affiliate Managing Agent; it also hosts the JISC W3C representative (UK Web Focus).

Current relevant work includes support for the JISC Digital Repository Programme by the UKOLN Repositories Research Team; JISC Repository Support Project (RSP); JISC eBank UK project; JISC IE Metadata Schema Registry (IEMSR); JISC Information Environment Service Registry (IESR); Digital Curation Centre (DCC); DELOS; and the EPSRC-funded Grand Challenge project.

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