The role of these Task Groups was to originate ideas and produce outlines for actions for consideration by the Forum and also to initiate small scale, targetted technical feasibility studies. The first Task Group dealt with metadata and bibliographic control and access, with particular reference to electronic publications. The second Task Group was concerned with examining issues and recommending actions in the area of electronic publications and digital resources. Die Deutsche Bibliothek. Study of Models for national bibliographic data and service provision in Europe.
Project reports The various project reports are available here.
Please note that these documents are in PDF format, and so you will require a copy of Adobe Acrobat in order to read them. A prototype is expected to be available in late-summer 2000. The group produced a concept which was presented to the CENL during its meeting in Warsaw in October 1997, following which the CENL agreed that a pilot study on multilingual subject access in French, German and English should be carried out by the group until the beginning of 1999. An information day was held in November 1999 for interested suppliers who had replied to a targeted call and specifications. A first version of the prototype will be available in June 2000 and a fuller version is planned for August, when it is planned to show the results at IFLA 2000.