Cultivate Interactive: An Update Brian Kelly UK Web Focus UKOLN University of Bath BATH UK UKOLN is supported by: URL

So Far We have: Published 6 issues: Jul 2000Oct 2000 Jan 2001May 2001Oct 2001 Feb 2002[Jun 2002Oct 2002Jan 2002] Issue average 125+ A4 pages when printed! Each issue contains over 25 articles (feature articles, regular columns, news, competition, etc. Cultivate Interactive: Successful in providing a means for publishing information on digital cultural heritage Complements the CULTIVATE project (forum for NFPs, uses the CULTIVATE visual identity, metadata for articles in Document Server, etc.)

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What It Offers For Projects Cultivate Interactive provides a dissemination mechanism for projects. It provides a high-quality look-and-feel and richly functional Web site which projects will benefit from Cultivate Interactive is search engine friendly, making it easier to find information about your project (cf. Cultivate – no. 1 in Google!) For CULTIVATE Colleagues You will benefit from the advantages listed above For Readers Readers will benefit from the editing processes, attractive design, ease of finding articles, value-added services, etc. For UKOLN UKOLN is developing links with the partners, projects, the EC, etc. and having a test bed for its research interest

Innovations and Dissemination UKOLN’s expertise in metadata inform our approaches to metadata management and resource discovery in Cultivate Interactive We also use Cultivate Interactive in our dissemination (e.g. workshops and conference presentations) e.g. see

Our Challenges Challenges we face: Writing Quality: We have very limited resources for proofreading. In order to maintain Cultivate Interactive’s high- standing we reserve the rights to ‘spike’ articles. You can help by ensuring articles are checked before submission (by native English speaker if possible) Appropriate Articles: We do not want to publish press releases. Timing: Please submit articles on (or preferably before!) the submission deadline.

13 Next Steps New editor: Marieke Napier has moved on to other project work Richard Waller is editor for remaining issues Cultivate Interactive and you: You can help by:  Offering to write (Node column or general article)  Finding people to write  Promoting Cultivate Interactive when it’s released (Web pages, , etc.) This will also be of benefit to you, your organisation and your community