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Strathclyde, University of ASPECT - Access to Scottish Parliamentary Election Candidate Materials 1999 Digital archive based on the collection of Scottish parliamentary election ephemera held by the Andersonian Library at the University of Strathclyde. Includes digital reproductions of the original materials, with transcriptions of leaflet text and supplementary information on the election. URL: http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/aspect/ COPAC/Clumps - Continuing Technical Collaboration COPAC/Clumps aims to reach conclusions about the feasibility of inter-linking between virtual and physical union catalogues, and to identify technical and organisational issues which may impinge upon future developments of any national union catalogue. URL: http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/projects/projects-copacclumps.html Development of data based models for effective treatment and the environmentally safe use of veterinary methods in the control of sea lice infestation of farmed salmon A multidisciplinary project initiated in response to the LINK Aquaculture call for the development of disease control methods that minimise the use of veterinary medicines as well as the environmental impact of aquaculture operations. Specific focus driven by a Working Group report to the CFRD in 1998 which recommended that target areas for research should include: the development of mathematical models for sea live population dynamics; and the standardisation of data collection methods & the establishment of a central database. URL: http://www.dis.strath.ac.uk/vie/ DIO - Digital Information Office The Digital Information Office is a new division of the Directorate of Information Strategy responsible both for the professional management of electronic resources created within the University of Strathclyde and the co-ordination of University wide interest in commercially acquired electronic information resources. URL: http://dio.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/ GDL - Glasgow Digital Library GDL aims to establish itself as a virtual co-library of the majority of public institutions in Glasgow and aims to create a wholly digital resource to support teaching, learning and research, uniting material currently separated by ownership and physical location. URL: http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/ HaIRST - Harvesting Institutional Resources in Scotland Testbed HaIRST supports research into a pilot service providing UK-wide access to locally created learning and research resources in Scotland, whilst simultaneously investigating and advising upon necessary changes to institutional cultures, policies, strategies, organisational structures, and on technical and metadata considerations. URL: http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/projects/projects-hairst.html HILT II � High Level Thesaurus phase II HILT II moves Phase I into the 'Pilot Project' stage, focussing on terminology and thesauri requirements at the collection level, but also bearing in mind the need to extend this in due course to the needs of item level retrieval. URL: http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/index.html A low-cost haemoglobinometer as a decision support tool for bovine disease diagnosis in sub-Saharan Africa A collaborative project between partners in the UK, Kenya and Uganda to provide low-technology decision support tools to aid the differential diagnosis of bovine diseases in East Africa URL: http://www.dis.strath.ac.uk/vie/ Project MIND: Resource selection and data fusion from multimedia international digital libraries - The objective is to design models and to build sets of tools and associated test-beds to improve the effectiveness of resource selection, multimedia information access, retrieval and fusion of the retrieved data. URL: http://www.mind.cs.strath.ac.uk/index.html RLS - Red Clydeside: A Gateway to Resources RLS project forms a gateway to information resources on the history of Red Clydeside and the Scottish Labour movement of the early 20th century. Provides access to digitised source materials from this period of industrial, social and political upheaval. URL: http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/prototype/redclyde/index.html SAPIENS (Scottish Academic Periodicals: Implementing an Effective Networked Service) Exploring the case for a centralised Scottish electronic journal service (Funded by SHEFC). URL: http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/projects/projects-sapiens.html SCONE - Scottish COllections Network Extension project The SCONE project aims to aid researchers by extending existing collaborative collection management (CCM) work carried out within the SCURL framework into new areas and investigating effective models for building and sustaining a co-ordinated distributed nationwide resource. URL: http://scone.strath.ac.uk/ SEED - Scottish Executive Education Department project SEED is a project to aid researchers by adding existing subject descriptions of research collections to the RCO database, establishing a means to keep the data current, and extending this data to include collections held in public libraries and elsewhere in Scotland. URL: http://seed.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/ Springburn Virtual Museum - Digitisation of materials from the Springburn Community Museum A representative selection of digitised materials drawn from the Springburn Community Museum collection and the initial foundations of Springburn Virtual Museum. URL: http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/prototype/springburn/ Victorian Times - NOF-Funded Digitisation Project on Victorian Social Conditions Victorian Times provides access to digitised materials relating to social, political and economic conditions, events, people and actions in the Victorian era materials rarely seen by scholars and never before available over the Internet. URL: http://vt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/ Voyage of the Scotia Voyage of the Scotia is an online exhibition marking the centenary of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of 1902-04 and a web-based gateway to information resources in the wider subject area of Antarctic exploration and research. URL:
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