The UNIverse project

Abstract

Provides an outline of the UNIverse project, describing its major objectives, its origins, its evolution and its developed form. Agrees with the findings of the Library Programme in the 4th Framework that live trials of emergent technologies are the single most critical success factor in validating scenarios. Describes the organization of the User Group Interest Groups, formed to carry out these trials.

Unterwegs ins Mittelalter : Zeitreisen in der deutschsprachigen Jugendliteratur des 21. Jahrhunderts

“…Immersion can entail a mere flooding of the mind with sensation … But in a participatory medium, immersion implies leaning to swim, to do the things this new environment makes possible. 1086 In ihrer Monographie Hamlet on the Holodeck (1997) weist Janet HOROWITZ MURRAY den digitalen Medien die Räumlichkeit als eine ihrer vier grundlegenden Eigenschaften zu: 1087 "The new digital environments are characterized by their power to represent navigable space." 1088 Lineare Erzählmedien wie Literatur oder Film können Raum zwar abbilden, ihn jedoch nicht für ihre Rezipienten navigierbar machen.…”

The UNIverse Project: state‐of‐the‐art of the standards, softwares and systems which will underpin the development. Part 2: record syntax conversion, result set de‐duplication, and multilingual thesauri

“…TALX: offers electronic conversion from bibliographic records that are brief MARC or non‐MARC records. TALX loads MARC and non‐MARC formats, extracts search keys and obtains complete MARC records from a bibliographic database[4]. SIRS Mandarin offers a MARCOUT utility which can take records in MARC and non‐MARC format and export in US MARC communications format, in order to merge the patron library’s record into a union catalogue[5].…”

“…TALX: offers electronic conversion from bibliographic records that are brief MARC or non‐MARC records. TALX loads MARC and non‐MARC formats, extracts search keys and obtains complete MARC records from a bibliographic database[4].…”

The UNIverse Project: state‐of‐the‐art of the standards, softwares and systems which will underpin the development. Part 3: inter library loans protocols; multimedia document delivery; and authentication and directory services

“…The system will build on work done under previous EC funded projects. A more detailed description of the project and its evolution is given in a previous article (Murray and Pettman, 1997).…”