BIOME AgriFor / Natural Selection Advisory Group 2 nd July 2001

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

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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

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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

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VTS for Agriculture, Food and Forestry

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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

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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”

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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

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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

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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

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Current BIOME Interface

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New RDN interface

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RDN-Includehttp://www.rdn.ac.uk/rdn-i/

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Current SOSIG interface

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SOSIG second level

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SOSIG results presentation

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BIOME browse structure

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