1. British Universities Film & Video Council THE RESEACHER’S GUIDE ONLINE AT THE BUFVC The BUFVC is part funded by the JISC.The development of this online service was funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme. THE RESEARCHER’S GUIDE ONLINE AT THE BUFVC www.bufvc.ac.uk/rgo Luís Carrasqueiro Network Content Manager · BUFVC

2. British Universities Film & Video Council THE RESEACHER’S GUIDE ONLINE AT THE BUFVC The BUFVC is part funded by the JISC.The development of this online service was funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme. 1. The Researcher’s Guide 2. RGO: going online 3. A collection of collections looking for a standard 4. The implementation process 5. Ongoing project

3. British Universities Film & Video Council THE RESEACHER’S GUIDE ONLINE AT THE BUFVC The BUFVC is part funded by the JISC.The development of this online service was funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme. 1. The Researcher’s Guide The Development of the RGO was based on: The Researcher’s Guide to British Film & Television Collections (5 editions bewtween 1981 and 1997) The Researcher’s Guide to Moving Image, Radio and Related Documentation Collections in the United Kingdom - MIRRDOC (A survey undertaken in Autumn 1999/Spring 2000) The last edition of the Researcher’s Guide, a widely used reference, gave details of over 300 moving image collections in the UK. This extension was encouraged following a meeting of a working group under the RSLP.

4. British Universities Film & Video Council THE RESEACHER’S GUIDE ONLINE AT THE BUFVC The BUFVC is part funded by the JISC.The development of this online service was funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme. 2. RGO: going online RSLP grant support enabled the gathering and updating of data and subsequent publication online. with advantages being: Continuous updating of data Provision of links to the listed collections and other resources Integration with other online BUFVC information services

5. British Universities Film & Video Council THE RESEACHER’S GUIDE ONLINE AT THE BUFVC The BUFVC is part funded by the JISC.The development of this online service was funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme. 2. RGO: going online The RGO in print The 6 th edition was renamed: The Researcher’s Guide: Film, Television, Radio and Related Documentation Collections in the UK. Over 500 collections including additional information on radio collections and on documentation collections relating to audio- visual works - scripts, scores, posters, still pictures and equipment.

6. British Universities Film & Video Council THE RESEACHER’S GUIDE ONLINE AT THE BUFVC The BUFVC is part funded by the JISC.The development of this online service was funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme. 2. RGO: going online Data 2 collections of collections 315 moving image, 118 radio, 113 documentation square peg/round hole problem

7. British Universities Film & Video Council THE RESEACHER’S GUIDE ONLINE AT THE BUFVC The BUFVC is part funded by the JISC.The development of this online service was funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme. 3. A collection of collections looking for a standard Where to find a standard Prospecting the ac.uk web for standards… RSLP promotes the Collection Description Schema Collection Description Schema - 2 in 1 A flexible standard for collection-level descriptions RDF/XML encoding - supported by most databases paves the way to interoperability both through standard metadata and encoding format.

8. British Universities Film & Video Council THE RESEACHER’S GUIDE ONLINE AT THE BUFVC The BUFVC is part funded by the JISC.The development of this online service was funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme. 3. A collection of collections looking for a standard cds harvester RG + MIRRDOC RGO users

9. British Universities Film & Video Council THE RESEACHER’S GUIDE ONLINE AT THE BUFVC The BUFVC is part funded by the JISC.The development of this online service was funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme. 4. The implementation process The database was developed on FilemakerPro. Off-the-shelf database Web deployment solution included - fully customisable Data was re-structured in a one-off change to better fit the CDS XML data export was setup and tested In ONE day RGO was ready to be harvested Released on the 20 th April 2001 http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/rgo

10. British Universities Film & Video Council THE RESEACHER’S GUIDE ONLINE AT THE BUFVC The BUFVC is part funded by the JISC.The development of this online service was funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme. 5. Ongoing project RGO WEB STATISTICS Since its launch on the 20 th April 2001 the following results were recorded on the RGO website (20 th September 2001). ac.uk usersBUFVC membersTotal Simple searches19444942438 Advanced searches21956275 Search/retrieval operations607812777355

11. British Universities Film & Video Council THE RESEACHER’S GUIDE ONLINE AT THE BUFVC The BUFVC is part funded by the JISC.The development of this online service was funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme. 5. Ongoing project: interoperability through CDS The Moving Image Gateway (MIG) is a new service that collects together websites that relate to moving images and sound and their use in higher and further education. The sites are classified by academic discipline, over forty subjects from Agriculture to Women's Studies, collected within the four main categories of Arts & Humanities, Bio-Medical, Social Sciences and Science & Technology. Sites are highlighted which have video or audio streaming. There are some 500 sites on the MIG database at present.

12. British Universities Film & Video Council THE RESEACHER’S GUIDE ONLINE AT THE BUFVC The BUFVC is part funded by the JISC.The development of this online service was funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme. luis@bufvc.ac.uk Luis Carrasqueiro BUFVC 77 Wells Street London W1T 3QJ Tel. 020 7393 1509 Fax 020 7393 1555 www.bufvc.ac.uk