ELAG 2001 - Integrating Heterogeneous Resources - Prague, 6-8 June 2001

Charles University Computer Centre Progress Report 2001

  1. Institution

    2. Charles University Computer Centre
    Ovocny trh 3-5
    Prague 1,  116 36  Czech Republic

    ELAG Contact Person:
    Ms. Dana Simkova (Head of CUCC Library Department) , dana@cuni.cz , phone:+420-2-24491238 , fax:+420-2-24491588

    Institution Type: University Institute

    Mission Statement
    Charles University information strategy development, implementation and support; university computer network development, implementation and support; database development and maintenance (including Charles University union library catalogue); supercomputing; sw development, implementation and support.

  2. Computer networks and Internet connectivity

    1. In general HW, SW
      ATM backbone network (metropolitan area network PASNET); UNIX and NT networks; AppleTalk networks

    2. New HW, SW; connectivity upgrades
      Migration from ATM to Gigabit technology.

  3. Library automation

    1. In general HW/SW
      Heterogenious faculty library systems (T Series, Aleph 300, KP Win) under various OS (UNIX, Windows).

    2. New HW, SW, other
      39.50 in beta version, W@P approach to OPAC and personal account, SFX interface just before implementation.

  4. Union Catalogue

    1. Software used
      We develop Charles University Union Catalogue (CUUC) under sw T Series and OS UNIX, batch processing.

    2. New features
      We prepare online cataloguing within CUUC, stress being on record downloading.

  5. Digital Library

    1. Based on your own production of digital documents
      • Charles University Personal Bibliography (responsibility of Charles University Central Library)
      • Charles University Union Catalogue (responsibility of Charles University Computer Science Center)

    2. Based on external sources
      • Web of Science and various databases under Ultra*Net.

  6. New in-house databases

  7. Special web services

    8. Charles University information system

  8. Electronic document delivery services

  9. Research and technology development projects

    10. Heterogenious databases integration through sfx (Metalib gateway) - common project with National Library.

  10. Other important projects

    • Transformation of Charles university union database into a union catalogue of central type
    • Cooperating integration activities concerning authority files (together with other libraries, project is coordinated by National Library of Czech Republic
    • Digitalisation of Charles University rare documents including Internet online approach (in cooperation with the Institute of the History of Charles University and CU Archives

Reported by Dana Simkova <dana@cuni.cz>

Prague, 21 May 2001