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MALVINE Manuscripts and Letters via Integrated Networks in Europe

opens new and enhanced access to disparate holdings of modern manuscripts and letters, kept and catalogued in European libraries, archives, documentation centres and museums.

AUTHOR

A European Project for the international exchange of authority records (1995-1997). Five national libraries responsible for authority files with different cataloguing rules, formats and languages were participating in the project. AUTHOR aimed at making accessible existing authority files throughout the world in order to re-use the work already done for identifying authors.

COVAX Contemporary Culture Virtual Archives in XML

COVAX (2000-2001) was funded through the Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme 'Promoting a User-friendly Information Society'. It developed a demonstrator which allows to combine document descriptions and digitised surrogates from libraries, archives and museums and to build a global system for search and retrieval. It allows the widely distributed primary documents to be accessed regardless of their location.

EUAN European Union Archive Network

EUAN (1999-2000) is about opening up access to archives across the European Union. The underlying vision is that a citizen should be able, using the internet, to get information about the contents of the national archives of another country of the Union. At present geographical, language and cultural barriers impede this.

FRANAR Functional Requirements And Numbering of Authority Records.

FRANAR is an UBCIM (Universal Bibliographic Control and International MARC Core Programme) work group of the IFLA section on Cataloguing. It advances the model of FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) for authority files that had been hitherto only laid out for bibliographic data. With the aid of a joint numeral system a jointly used virtual authority file with decentralised data maintenance will be developed.

INTERPARTY

INTERPARTY is an EU-funded project that will establish a "Directory of Parties", i.e. a system which enables unique identification of parties (persons and corporate bodies) engaged in transactions within e-commerce.

MACS (Multilingual Access to Subjects)

MACS (1999-2001) was funded by the Conference of European National Librarians. The aim is to directly link the three comprehensive Authority Files Rameau, LCSH and Schlagwortnormdatei (SWD). Subject related search that transcends language barriers shall be made possible in the German, English and French speaking areas.

RENARDUS

RENARDUS (2000-2002) is funded through the Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme 'Promoting a user-friendly Information Society'. The project's aim is to improve access to existing Internet-accessible collections of cultural and scientific resources across Europe. The approach being taken is to develop a 'broker' service - a single interface for searching and browsing across existing distributed resource collections produced at a national level.

SCHEMAS

SCHEMAS (2000-2001) provides a forum for metadata schema designers involved in projects under the IST Programme and national initiatives in Europe. SCHEMAS will inform schema implementers about the status and proper use of new and emerging metadata standards. The project will support development of good-practice guidelines for the use of standards in local implementations and will investigate how metadata registries can support these aims.