AIM25

Provided electronic access to collection level descriptions of the archives of over fifty higher education institutions and learned societies within the greater London area. The project was led by King’s College London. Start date: 2000. Completion date: 2003

ANGEL (Authenticated Networked Guided Environment for Learning)

Created middleware services to integrate 'open' library resources into 'closed' online learning environments and courseware portals, providing solutions to problems that are currently obstructing the fluent and free use of the full available information landscape by course instructors and learning technologists. ANGEL explored and developed many concepts and technologies for the management of metadata about resources and users, including principles of automated access management, which have helped to found current devolved access management methods and the JISC Information Environment architecture. 

The project was led by LSE with partners at South Bank University, the University of Edinburgh, De Montfort University, Sheffield Hallam University and the EDINA National Data Service. 

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Funder: JISC. Start date: September 2000. Completion date: March 2003

The Archives Hub

Provides a single point of access to descriptions of archives held in UK universities and colleges. At present these are primarily at collection-level, although where possible they are linked to complete catalogue descriptions. Project led by CURL (Consortium of Research Libraries in the British Isles). 

Start date: 2000. Project completed.

Artist in residence in the archives

Examined questions of the changing role of artists today in a society and economy such as ours. Funded by Leverhulme Trust, directed by Sue Donnelly, Archivist, LSE and Ruth Maclennan, artist. 

Start date: 2001. Completion date: 2002

BOPCRIS (British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service)

Aims to save researchers wasting valuable research time and effort finding relevant British Official Publications over the period 1688 -1995 by providing a web-based bibliographic database.

CartoonHub

Created a national hub for research into British cartoons and caricature. The completed CartoonHub website will constitute the largest archive of cartoon images on the web. It will also carry information about cartoon collections in the UK and beyond, and about related conferences, new publications etc.  The project was led by the Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature, Kent University. 

Start date: 1999. Completion date: 2002

CC-interop Project

Copac/Clumps Continuing Technical Cooperation Project (CC-interop) had a basic aim to test the feasibility of cross-searching between physical and virtual union catalogues, using COPAC and the three functioning "clumps" or virtual union catalogues (CAIRNS, InforM25, and RIDING), all funded or part-funded by JISC in recent years. The key issues investigated were technical interoperability of catalogues, use of collection level descriptions to search union catalogues dynamically, quality of standards in cataloguing and indexing practices, and usability of union catalogues for real users. 

Funder: JISC. Start. May 2002. Completion date: April 2004

The Charles Booth Online Archive

Provides free desk-top access to searchable catalogues, digitised images and interactive maps from the Booth archive collections at the Library at LSE and the University of London Library. The Victorian, Charles Booth, led a survey into life and labour in London (1886-1903) and subsequently produced London maps, with streets colour-coded according to social status. Project led by the Archives Division at the LSE Library. 

Start date: 1999. Completion date: 2001

COCOREES (Collaborative Collection Management Project for Russian and East European Studies)

The overall purposes of the project were to benefit research in Russian and East European Studies (REES) in the UK by creating readily searchable databases of information on collections and holdings; and to set up, and explore the usefulness of, agreements and initiatives to foster collaborative collection management between partner libraries in the interests of improved availability of research resources in REES and access to them. 

Start date: 1999. Completion date: 2002

COCOREES  was superseded by CURL-CoFoR. The aim of CoFoR was to build on and develop the outcomes of COCOREES into a set of collaborative collection management tools, initially in REES, but which may also be applied to other subject areas. 

Start date: 2002. Completion date: 2004

DECOMATE II

Developed an end-user service which provided access to heterogeneous information resources distributed over different libraries in Europe using a uniform interface, leading to a working demonstrator of the European Digital Library for Economics.

A collaborative project between the Tilburg University Library, the LSE Library, the European University Institute at Florence and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Funder: EC European Commission DG XIII Telematics for Libraries programme. 
Start date: February 1998. Completion date: July 2000

DELIVER

Designed and implemented practical software tools for end-users and administrators of institutional Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) and Library Management Systems (LMS) to facilitate the consistent creation and ease-of-use of course-based resource lists. 

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Funder: JISC. Start date: October 2002. Completion date: July 2003

FAR (Federated Access to Repositories)

The project will address needs for improved attribute-managed federated access to institutional repositories. FAR will recommend standards for attributes to describe authorisation to repositories and develop extensions to common repository software (EPrints and Dspace) so that it can be used with Shibboleth via the UK and other national access federations for education and research. LSE is partnered with Cambridge University in the project, and will also work with Australian partners to extend the same standards to the Fedora Repository software. Funder: funded under the JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme call for Interoperability Demonstrators. Funder: JISC. Start date: November 2007.  Completion date: July 2008

Find it in London

A pilot project working with library partners from the public, higher education and further education sectors, as well as archives and museums, to design a web-based look-up tool. This will allow users of all those services (plus members of the public who find FiiL on the web) to find strong library collections in London on their particular subject of interest. 

HEADLINE (Hybrid Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment)

The project designed and implemented a working model of the hybrid library, around the concept of a Personal Information Environment (PIE) for every user. The PIE includes access, via the login process, to the user's administrative details such as status, subject area and registered courses, and is able to use this information to provide a tailored and supportive environment. The system also retains feedback from the user's actions, providing a mechanism for user profiles and preferences to be developed heuristically over time. The project was led by LSE with partners at the London Business School and the University of Hertfordshire.

Funder: JISC (Hybrid Libraries Programme). 

Start date: January 1998. Completion date: July 2001

The Identity Project

The Identity Project addressed the current practice and future needs of UK academic institutions in Identity Management. The Identity Management issues which were investigated included Grid use, Shibboleth installations of varying degree of maturity, collaborative courses and other long term inter-institutional collaborations, internal and shared dynamic virtual organisations, classes of users other than standard staff/student mix, library access schemes, and NHS involvement.
The Project Partners carried out the research in the area of Identity Management partly by accomplishing key packages with dedicated researchers, and partly by involving staff at each partner, who were familiar with local organisational structures and requirements.
This public web site is designed to exploit the closely interlinked nature of Identity Management requirements. It includes information about international efforts in the area and recommendations for future work, as well as outcomes of the research of the project partners.
Funder: JISC e-infrastructure programme. Start date: November 2006. Completion date: October 2007.

Ionian Bank Archives

Project to provide online access to the catalogue of the archives of the Ionian Bank, including digital versions of the Director's minutes, 1839-1917. The Ionian Bank Limited was founded in London in 1839 to finance trade between the Ionian Islands, at that time was a British protectorate, and Britain. After the cession to Greece of the islands in 1864, the bank extended its operations to the rest of Greece and the wider Eastern Mediterranean. Project led by the Archives Division at the LSE Library. Funder: Alpha Bank Greece. Start date: 2003 Completion 2005

Mapping Asia

The Mapping Asia project has been awarded funding by the Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP) to work in the area of Collaborative Collection Management for Asian Studies in the UK. This is a two and a half year project due to finish in July 2002. This web site will serve as a meeting place and archive for Asian scholars, librarians, archivists and other interested people to follow the progress of the project, exchange ideas and find quality information on Asian collections in the United Kingdom.

M25 Link Project

Funded under the JISC eLib Phase 3 Programme and built a pilot virtual union catalogue or 'clump'. The pilot has been developed and now forms the 'Search catalogues' element of the InforM25 service, provided by the M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries. M25 Link also investigated the feasibility of searching and retrieving holdings data for serials via Z39.50. The project was hosted and led by the Library with partners from the M25 Consortium (City, Greenwich, Middlesex, Queen Mary and Westminster universities). 

Start date: January 1998. Completion date: July 2001

MIDESS

Develop a digital image repository to store and manage digital content created through digitisation projects. The work will involve a partnership between The Centre for Learning Technology and LSE Archives. The intention is to develop a prototype repository for a whole range of digitised content including digitised images, sound and moving images. The project will explore how images, including multimedia collections can be exploited for use in teaching and learning. LSE are one of the partners in this project which includes CURL (Consortium of University Research Libraries), University of Leeds, University of Birmingham and University College London. Funder: JISC. Start date: July 2005.  Completion date: August 2007

Retrospective Catalogue Conversion project

Conversion of 305,000 records from the former LSE card catalogue, onto the main online catalogue is now complete. The conversion was funded from research access funding received under the Research Support Libraries Programme. As part of the project, an interim Card Catalogue Online solution was developed which allowed users to browse images of the cards. The card images were arranged in an alphabetical sequence of drawers, just as the cards were stored in the original wooden catalogue cabinets.
Start date: 2001. Completion date: December 2005

Review study of worldwide access management technologies

Part of the SECURe project, this study investigated and reviewed available and developing technologies for user identity management, authentication and resources access management, making recommendations which helped to found ongoing work by SURF to establish a national access management scheme in the Netherlands. 

Funder: SURF. Start date: November 2003. Completion date: February 2004

SECURe: Secure Environment for Certificated Use of Resources

Funded by the JISC Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting Programme (06/02). The project addressed two key issues within the Access Management arena: an institution-wide deployment of PKI and authentication using personal digital certificates. The creation and operational use of Web services and directory components to enable cross-domain access management, implementing essential 'shared services' elements of the JISC Information Environment. 

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Funder: JISC. Start date: November 02. Completion date: April 2005

ShibboLEAP

A collaborative project to create a Shibboleth Identity-Provider ('Origin') service for all academic and support staff (at each of seven partner institutions in the SHERPA-LEAP consortium) who are involved in controlled access to their respective institutional Eprints servers, and will implement modifications to their respective Eprints servers to enable them all as Shibboleth Resource-Providers ('Targets'). The project partners are LSE, Birkbeck College, SOAS, Imperial College, King's College, UCL and Royal Holloway. 

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Funder: JISC. Start date: April 2005. Completion date: April 2006

UKeduPerson Study

A study that established the scope and requirements for a UK-specific metadata schema to provide for consistent descriptions and classifications of all students and staff involved in post-16 education.

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Funder: JISC. Start date: January 2004. Completion date: July 2004

Victorian Times

Research, consolidate, digitise and provide access to original material relating to social, political, and economic conditions, events, people and actions from the Victorian era and, with the help of a subject expert and his advisors, develop contextual information to supplement and enrich this material. Project led by LSE. 

Start date: 2002. Completion date: 2004