Introduction
Project BIBLINK was funded by DG XIII/E-4 under the Telematics Application Programme
of the European Union Fourth Framework Programme. It aimed to establish an electronic link
between national bibliographic agencies and publishers of electronic material, in order to
establish authoritative bibliographic information that would benefit both sectors.
The project leaders of BIBLINK are the British Library and partners include the national
libraries of France, The Netherlands, Norway and Spain, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
(Barcelona) and UKOLN.
More information about Project BIBLINK is available from the project Web pages at:
<URL:http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/biblink/>
The BIBLINK page on the I*M Europe Telematics for Libraries Web site can be found at:
<URL:http://web.archive.org/web/19991117201313/http://www2.echo.lu/libraries/en/projects/biblink.html>
Publications describing BIBLINK:
- Michael Day, Rachel Heery and Andy Powell, National bibliographic
records in the digital information environment: metadata, links and
standards. Journal of Documentation, 55, (1), January 1999,
16-32.
- Trudi Noordermeer, A bibliographic link between publishers and national
bibliographic agencies concerning electronic publications: project
BIBLINK. International Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control, 28
(1), January/March 1999, 26-29.
- Trudi Noordermeer, A bibliographic link between publishers of
electronic resources and national bibliographic agencies: project BIBLINK.
Exploit Interactive issue 4, January 2000.
http://www.exploit-lib.org/issu
e4/biblink/
- Robina Clayphan, The BIBLINK project: linking publishers and national
bibliographic agencies. Learned Publishing, 13 (2), April 2000,
111-117.
- Manjula Patel and Robina Clayphan, Project BIBLINK: Linking Publishers and
National Bibliographic Agencies. Proceedings Internet Librarian 2000, March 2000
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/publications/biblink/proj-biblink.html
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Deliverables
BIBLINK is divided up into different Work Packages (WPs). The first phase of the project
(WP 1-7) consisted primarily of research into a variety of background issues. The second
phase (WP 8-14), dealt with the production of a
demonstrator. UKOLN was involved in the production of the following report deliverables
during the first phase of the project:
- Rachel Heery, with contributions from Robina Clayphan, Michael Day, Lorcan Dempsey and
David Martin, WP1: Metadata Formats, February 1997.
<URL:http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/biblink/wp1/> - Hilde Høgås, Titia van der Werf and Andy Powell, WP2: Identification, May 1997.
<URL:http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/biblink/wp2/>
- Rachel Heery, ed., with contributions from Robina Clayphan, Michael Day, Brian Holt and Neil
Wilson, WP4: Format Conversion Feasibility, September 1997.
<URL:http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/biblink/wp4/>
- Clare Sutton and Robina Clayphan, with contributions from David Martin and Andy Powell,
WP5: Transmission of Data, March 1997.
<URL:http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/biblink/wp5/>
During the second phase of the project, the UKOLN metadata group contributed to a functional
specification for the BIBLINK demonstrator D8.2 - Functional
Specification - PDF version
As part of the Testing and Verification stage, a
mapping from
BIBLINK Core (BC) to UNIMARC was also developed.
The following tools were developed as part of the Demonstrator phase of the
project:
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