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Renardus: Enhancing European Cultural Heritage Access

Renardus project funded by the EU aims to improve academic subject gateway services in Europe by developing a user-friendly broker system for integrated search and browsing of resources. The collaboration involves 12 European partners working on metadata sharing and standards. The project includes work packages focusing on functional model development, system design, organizational infrastructure, service provision, and verification and evaluation. Renardus enhances access to academic resources through structured metadata and subject classification.

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Renardus: Enhancing European Cultural Heritage Access

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  1. www.renardus.org Cultural Heritage Projects: Renardus Dr. Heike Neuroth Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen, Germany (SUB) neuroth@mail.sub.uni-goettingen.de Bundesamtsgebäude Wien, June 30, 2000

  2. General • Renardus is funded through the Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme 'Promoting a User-friendly Information Society'. This is a major theme of the European Union's 5th Framework Programme. • European project with 12 partners from Finland, Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, France and Germany • Project started in January 2000 • Duration: 30 months (until June 2002)

  3. Project Partners • Coordinator: • Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands) • Participants: • Bibliothèque Nationale de France (National Library of France) • Center for Scientific Computing, Finland (CSC) • Die Deutsche Bibliothek, Germany (DDB) • Finnish Virtual Library Project, Jyväskylä University Library, Finland (JyU) • Institute for Learning and Research Technology, Univ. of Bristol, UK (ILRT) • NetLab, Lund University, Sweden (NetLab)

  4. Project Partners cont. • Participants: • Lower Saxony State and University Library, Göttingen, Germany (SUB) • Technical Knowledge Centre and Library of Denmark (DTV) • UK Office for Library and Information Networking, University of Bath, UK (UKOLN) • Viikki Science Library, University of Helsinki, Finland (ALUH) • Zentralstelle für Agrardokumentation und -information, Germany (ZADI)

  5. Subject Gateways • DEF fagportal (project status) • DutchESS: Dutch Electronic Subject Service • FVL: The Finnish Virtual Library • Les Signets: Collection of Internet Resources • RDN: Resource Discovery Network (EEVL, SOSIG, OMNI etc.) • SSG-FI: MathGuide, Geo-Guide, History Guide, Anglistik Guide • NOVAGate: Libraries of Nordic Agricultural & Veterinary Univ. • DAINet: German Agricultural Information System • EELS: Engineering Electronic Library, Sweden • Document Server DEPOSIT: Deposit of German Online Dissertations

  6. Subject Gateways: Definition • Quality controlled Subject Gateways and Resource Discovery Broker Systems, target audience is predominantly higher education and academic research communities across Europe: • Selection and collection development (human intellectual effort, certain policy with regard to collection development, documented selection criteria) • Collection management (maintaining or improving the level of quality of the collection, certain policy with regard to maintenance) • Resource description (all selected resources are described according to a fixed and documented metadata set, metadata are structured in well-defined semantic fields to enable structured searching) • Subject classification (all resources are indexed according to a subject classification scheme in order to enable subject browsing)

  7. Goals • to improve access to existing academic subject gateway services in Europe • to develop a 'broker' service that will allow integrated searching and browsing of distributed resource collections • to develop models for sharing metadata, agreement on technical solutions and other standards • developing a pilot system for a fully-functional service

  8. Work Packages (WP1) • The project is structured into a number of 'areas' of work or 'work packages‘: • WP1: Functional model - UKOLN • will develop the architecture that will underpin the Renardus system • will provide the functional and data model specifi-cations of the broker system (together with WP 6) and produce a scoping document for the pilot service

  9. Work Packages (WP2, WP3) • WP2: Design and implementation - DTV • will build the Renardus pilot system (will be based on the architectural model specified in WP1 and on the data model and data flow specified in WP6) • WP3: Organisational infrastructure - KB • will develop organisational structures (e.g. roles and responsibiltities of the participants, tasks and procedures relating the service etc.) • for the management of the Renardus service • and for collaboration between the participants (will include the requirements and rules for participation)

  10. Work Packages (WP4) • WP4: Service provision - KB • will set up a test-bed environment, based on the pilot system, in order to permit • beta-testing by partners (WP2), • evaluation by end users (WP5), • verification by extension with other gateways (WP5), • and experiments for data sharing and multi-linguality (WP7) • will provide a full documentation of the service

  11. Work Packages (WP5) • WP5: Verification and evaluation - JyU • will evaluate the pilot broker system by user group • verification of the generic model and the pilot system by extending it to at least one other gateway service • further verification of procedures for the management, maintenance and the availability of the service

  12. Work Packages (WP6) • WP6: Data model and data flow - SUB • will facilitate data exchange and the cross-searching of metadata • will develop a strategy for building consistent views on scientific and cultural resource collections across Europe • will then develop a data model and data flow for the broker system that is coherent with the functional/ architectural model of WP1 and the technical standards specifications from WP2

  13. Work Packages (WP7) • WP7: Data interoperability - SUB • the extent of data-interoperability achieved during the project duration is necessarily restricted, but the data model developed by WP6 furnishes the basic framework within which further work on data-interoperability can be carried out. WP7 is taking this work one step further. It will focus on two main issues: • metadata sharing • and multi-linguality

  14. Work Packages (WP8) • WP8: Business issues - UKOLN • will review the business issues which may impact architectural and design issues • will review business models of subject gateway activity amongst Renardus partners • and will survey the sustainability of a central broker service approach, results will feed into the Technical Implementation Plan

  15. Work Packages (WP9) • WP9: Dissemination and support - ILRT • to disseminate information about the project, its objectives, the collaborative approach and the results • to promote the use of the broker service by end users • and to enrol new participant services for the Renardus broker at the end of the project • will support project partners as participants in Renardus by disseminating clear guidelines and requirements documents

  16. Work Packages (WP10) • WP10: Project management - KB • will ensure that the project meets its objectives within budget and scheduled time limits • to this end it will monitor progress made, track deliverables and report back to the consortium • will also report to the EU (is responsibe for management and progress reports, costs statements and the final project report to the EU)

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