SPEIR: developing a common information environment in Scotland

Nicholson, Dennis, Dunsire, Gordon and Macgregor, George SPEIR: developing a common information environment in Scotland. The Electronic Library, 2006, vol. 24, n. 1. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]

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This article reports on the work of the SPEIR project and indicates its relevance beyond the Scottish information environment. SPEIR was funded by the Scottish Library and Information Council to identify, research, and develop the elements of an internationally interoperable Scottish Common Information Environment (SCIE) for Library, Museum and Archive domain information services, and to determine the best path for future progress. A key focus was to determine the distributed information infrastructure requirements of a pilot Scottish Cultural Portal being developed in parallel with the SPEIR work, building on existing pilot initiatives such as the CAIRNS distributed catalogue and landscaper, the SCONE collections database, the SCAMP staff portal and an embryonic organisational infrastructure based on the Confederation of Scottish Mini-cooperatives (CoSMiC). A series of practical pilots was undertaken. These were underpinned by relevant desk and field research and conducted within an overarching holistic approach to developing the distributed environment.

Item type: Journal article (Unpaginated)
Keywords: information facilities, interoperability, libraries, open systems, Scotland
Subjects: H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HL. Databases and database Networking.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HR. Portals.
Depositing user: Emma McCulloch
Date deposited: 14 Aug 2009
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:15
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/13446

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