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BIOMEAgriFor / Natural Selection Advisory Group
2nd July 2001
BIOMEAgriFor / Natural Selection Advisory Group
2nd July 2001
BIOME
BIOME Updates
Content provision• Natural Selection ~2277• AgriFor ~1557• VetGate ~1129• BioResearch ~1193• OMNI ~4848• NMAP ~784
BIOME
Updates: Feedback
BIOME launch & providers day• Feedback from launch & BIOME providers
workshop fed into the development of 3 action plans:
• IT Plan • Marketing Plan• Cataloguing Plan
BIOME
Updates
E-BioSci & BIOME• European response to PubMed Central• BIOME and EDINA bid to provide cross-searching and the
delivery of BIOME data to the E-BioSci life science Internet portal
• Led by EMBO and EBI• Bid was successfully funded – now at the contract
negotiation stage
BIOME
Updates: Virtual Training Suite
Virtual Training Suite http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/
Launch• May 8th
• “Virtual launch” at 6 venues across the UK – London, Bristol, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Manchester and Leeds
• Launch of BIOME authored tutorials, including Internet for Nature and Internet for Agriculture, Food and Forestry
• Lunchtime tea, cakes and champagne• Audio link up
BIOME
VTS for Agriculture, Food and Forestry
BIOME
Updates: METLA
METLA• BIOME is working in collaboration with the Global
Forestry Information Service (GFIS)• METLA signed up as TIP• Long term plan is for BIOME to be a regional node
of GFIS
BIOME
Updates: Schemas
MEDCertain• Potential collaborating partners in testing
metadata schemas
US metadata bid• Bid was resubmitted to the US National Library
of Medicine in February this year, on “Metadata for a global distributed knowledgebase”
Brussels workshop• June – “Workshop on quality criteria for health
related websites”
BIOME
Updates: Natural Selection
FENSCORE• Federation for Natural Sciences Collections
Research• National database of natural science collections• Potential cross searching with Natural Selection• Their Z39.50 server is currently broken
BIOSIS• Meeting to discuss possible use of thesaurus and
further collaborations• Cross searching as part of the portals initiative
BIOME
Updates: portalisation
Portalisation• Part 1 – research phase to end October 2001• Part 2 – implementation phase to start Nov
2001 • Aim to be cross-searching an external data
source by the end of next year • Potential targets include EDINA BIOSIS,
MEDLINE, CAB Abstracts
BIOME
SAD
BIOME
Subject Portals Development Project http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/programmes/projects/sadi/
BIOME
Updates: Technical
Z39.50 • BIOME now has a supported Z39.50 service in
line with the RDN’s plans
New interface • Plans for revised interface in 2002, possibly
following SOSIG (Yahoo-style) pattern. Eases ‘sub-gateway’ provision and provides common RDN house style
Dewey • Cross-searching beyond BIOME dependent on
Dewey; Renardus project investigating problems
BIOME
Current BIOME Interface
BIOME
New RDN interface
BIOME
RDN-Includehttp://www.rdn.ac.uk/rdn-i/
BIOME
Current SOSIG interface
BIOME
SOSIG second level
BIOME
SOSIG results presentation
BIOME
BIOME browse structure
BIOME
Updates: StatsGATEWAY HI TS
DEC 2000 - MAY 2001
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BIOME
Updates: Stats
Pages served over six months
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Number of pages requested
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