Previous Projects

I have been involved in the following projects between 2002 -2004.

• Glasgow Health Information (GHI)
  • In this project we investigated and developed a health information subject gateway for the greater Glasgow National Health Service Board in the UK. The aim was to provide a quality controlled subject gateway to reliable Internet resources in health and medicine for National Health Service staff and students in Glasgow.
• High Level Thesaurus (HILT)
  • The High Level Thesaurus (HILT) project was carried out at the Centre for Digital Library Research, in the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK. The project investigated the problem of achieving and maintaining interoperability in the subject description and classification of distributed digital collections and services in the UK higher education institutions. Among the issues addressed were: mapping of various online subject schemes such as thesauri, classification schemes and subject headings, methods of creating links among various subject schemes, specifications for developing a pilot terminologies sever, user evaluation of a pilot terminologies server and an examination of alternative methods of achieving subject interoperability.
• 'Digital Libraries for Global Distributed Innovative Design, Education and Teamwork' (DIDET)
  • DIDET was a joint project between the University of Strathclyde (UK) and Stanford University (US).The project investigated the development, implementation and use of digital libraries in design engineering classes to support teaching, learning and collaborative design projects. Among the issues examined were: digital libraries, knowledge organization systems, information seeking behaviour of design engineering students, virtual learning environments, information literacy, metadata and digital repositories.