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.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 20-27 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Signum |
Volume | 3 |
Publication status | Published - 2006 |
Keywords
- common information environment
- Scotland
- interoperability
- scottish collections network
- catalogues
- metadata
- terminologies
- collection description