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Subject Gateway Projects

DESIRE 2 - Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education
http://www.desire.org/

ROADS Project
ROADS is a set of software tools to enable the set up and maintenance of Web based subject gateways. Subject gateways are services which provide searchable and browsable catalogues of Internet based resources. Subject gateways will typically focus on a related set of academic subject areas.
http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/roads/
ROADS Software Downloads (Perl code for WHOIS++, Centroids/CIP etc.)
http://www.roads.lut.ac.uk/
The ROADS project exit strategy - Ensuring the future of ROADS for its users
http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/roads/news/latest/futures/

IMesh at Desire.org
International Collaboration on Internet Subject Gateways
http://www.desire.org/html/subjectgateways/community/imesh/

Project Isaac - A Distributed Architecture for Resource Discovery Using Metadata
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/research/index.html

Joint Information System Committee
Established to stimulate and enable the cost effective exploitation of information systems and to provide a high quality national network infrastructure for the UK higher education and research councils communities
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/
Publications related to JISC
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub/index.html

OCLC - Co-operative Online Resource Catalog (CORC)
http://www.oclc.org/oclc/research/projects/corc/index.htm

CoBRA+ - Computerised Bibliographic Record Actions
http://www.bl.uk/information/cobra.html

CoBRA+ working group on multilingual subject access
http://www.bl.uk/information/finrap3.html

EEVL (Engineering Gateway) Evaluation Reports
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/evaluation/

The Gateway to Educational Materials
The Gateway currently contains 6661 education resources and includes resources from more than 40 collections, including the AskERIC Virtual Library, Math Forum, Microsoft Encarta, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, and U.S. Department of Education.
http://www.thegateway.org

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
http://www.ndltd.org/

German Digital library project Global Info
http://www.global-info.org/index.html.en

Papers on Subject gateways

D-lib Magazine
D-Lib Magazine is a monthly magazine about digital libraries for researchers, developers, and the intellectually curious. New issues are published on the 15th of each month.
http://www.dlib.org/

Modeling Users' Successive Searches in Digital Environments: A National Science Foundation/British Library Funded Study
Amanda Spink, Tom Wilson, David Ellis , Nigel Ford
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april98/04spink.html

Legal Issues on the Internet: Hyperlinking and Framing
Maureen A. O'Rourke
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april98/04orourke.html

Cross-Searching Subject Gateways: The Query Routing and Forward Knowledge Approach, John Kirriemuir, Dan Brickley, Susan Welsh
Jon Knight, Martin Hamilton
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january98/01kirriemuir.html

Using Automated Classification for Summarizing and Selecting Heterogeneous Information Sources
R. Dolin, D. Agrawal, A. El Abbadi, J. Pearlman
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january98/dolin/01dolin.html

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations: An International Effort Unlocking University Resources
Edward A. Fox, John L. Eaton, Gail McMillan, Neill A. Kipp, Paul Mather, Tim McGonigle, William Schweiker, and Brian DeVane
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september97/theses/09fox.html

The Internet Knowledge Manager, Dynamic Digital Libraries, and Agents You Can Understand
Adrian Walker, IBM Research Division
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march98/walker/03walker.html

An Introduction to the Resource Description Framework
Eric Miller, OCLC
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may98/miller/05miller.html

A Distributed Architecture for Resource Discovery Using Metadata
Michael Roszkowski and Christopher Lukas, Scout project, University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june98/scout/06roszkowski.html

Multilingual Federated Searching Across Heterogeneous Collections
James Powell and Edward A. Fox
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september98/powell/09powell.html

The Joint NSF/JISC International Digital Libraries Initiative
Norman Wiseman, Joint Information Systems Committee; Chris Rusbridge, Electronic Libraries Programme; and Stephen M. Griffin, National Science Foundation
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june99/06wiseman.html

D-Lib Ready Reference: Subject Area Gateways
http://www.dlib.org/reference.html#subject

A Common Model to Support Interoperable Metadata. Progress report on reconciling metadata requirements from the Dublin Core and INDECS/DOI Communities
David Bearman, Eric Miller, Godfrey Rust, Jennifer Trant, Stuart Weibel
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january99/bearman/01bearman.html

i18n in Subject gateways

A Multilingual Electronic Text Collection of Folk Tales for Casual Users Using Off-the-Shelf Browsers
Myriam Dartois, Akira Maeda, Tetsuo Sakaguchi, Takehisa Fujita, Shigeo Sugimoto, Koichi Tabata
D-Lib Magazine, October 1997
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october97/sugimoto/10sugimoto.html

Multi-Media, Multi-Cultural, and Multi-Lingual Digital Libraries, Or How Do We Exchange Data In 400 Languages?
Christine L. Borgman
University of California, Los Angeles
D-Lib Magazine, June 1997
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june97/06borgman.html