1. JAFER Toolkit Project Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum 1 Introduction To JAFER A Toolkit for Information Retrieval Antony Corfield; Matthew Dovey; Richard Mawby; Colin Tatham Oxford University Libraries Systems Services

2. JAFER Toolkit Project Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum 2 Presentation will consist of: Introduction & Overview Demonstration Of Toolkit – emphasis on use for Librarians. Contact & Information Questions

3. JAFER Toolkit Project Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum 3 Background J ava A ccess F or E lectronic R esources (JAFER) JISC/DNER – Funding the two-year project under the DNER Programme. Z39.50 – An extensive and powerful protocol, providing complex distributed searching abilities, and retrieval of structured data from databases hosted on any platform.

4. JAFER Toolkit Project Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum 4 BACKGROUND (Continued) JAVA – This programming language ensures suitability for it eventual audience as the software is platform independent. – Ideally suited for internet applications. XML – Extensible Markup Language. A new and powerful internet technology. Part of a suite of technologies used for the management, display and exchange of data. – Allows unprecedented flexibility in data management and transmission – platform independent. JAVA + XML = portable CODE, portable DATA

5. JAFER Toolkit Project Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum 5 Aims Easy to use Visual Open Source – Encouraging ongoing development & maintenance of the software. Aims Components enabling users to build portals without dealing with intricate technical aspects.

6. JAFER Toolkit Project Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum 6 Introduction To Demonstration JAFER is creating a toolkit not a solution!! Demonstration: Building web sites for general searches – Of particular interest to website developers. Building Library information portals – Attractive to Librarians who wish to deal with content rather than web pages. Tools for writing web pages with Z39.50 content. For example, reading lists.

7. JAFER Toolkit Project Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum 7 Information: Websites – General (www.lib.ox.ac.uk/jafer) Project details, links & other miscellaneous information for the users.

8. JAFER Toolkit Project Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum 8 Information: Websites – Development (www.jafer.org/) Download packages (Includes documentation & Readme file). Mailing lists (with announcements / news/ updates / info on forthcoming workshops).

9. JAFER Toolkit Project Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum 9 Contacts & Information Project Director Matthew.Dovey@las.ox.ac.uk Project Administrator Richard.Mawby@las.ox.ac.uk Project Developers Antony.Corfield@las.ox.ac.uk Colin.Tatham@las.ox.ac.uk 99 Banbury Rd Oxford OX2 6JX Tel: +44 (0) 1865 284454 Fax: +44 (0) 1865 284456