Decomate II project news, 4/09/98

[Jose Luis Copete]

EC DECOMATE II project: End of specification phase

The Telematics for Libraries funded project DECOMATE II: Developing the
European digital library for economics, finished its
specification phase in August 1998.

The following reports are available to the public in electronic form
(both HTML and PDF formats) at the project's web
address: http://www.bib.uab.es/decomate2

*Analysis of digital resources. This report outlines the digital
resources available at the local sites of the project participants,
including an analysis of these digital resources and their suitability
to the development of the project.

*Scope of Decomate II contents. The report identifies the type of
materials and resources to be included in the service, and
includes a short study on its main characteristics in view of potential
problem areas that can be encountered.

*User study design. The report outlines the methodology to be used to
gather both qualitative and quantitative feedback, and
outlines a preliminary timetable for the user study.

*User requirements, system architecture and conceptual design. This
report describes the user requirements and contains the
description of the system environment and conceptual design of the
system.

Project manager: Mr Joost Dijkstra, Tilburg University Library. P.O. Box

90153. 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands. Phone:
+31-13-663327; fax: +31-13-663370; e-mail: J.M.M.Dijkstra at kub.nl
Dissemination contact: Mrs Núria Gallart, Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona. Servei de Biblioteques. Edifici A. 08193
Bellaterra, Spain. Phone: +34-93-5812746; fax: +34-93-5813219; e-mail:
Nuria.Gallart at uab.es



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José Luis Copete
Secció de Projectes (93) 581.27.46/Fax (93) 581.32.19
Servei de Biblioteques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona