Scotland's Information Landscape

Scotland's Information Landscape is a distributed information infrastructure for Scotland, designed to be sufficiently generic to support the specific activities of archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural information organizations through the sharing of common data and services.

For further information, see:

• The Common Information Environment: a newly emerged concept. 2006. (PDF document)
• Conspectus and the Scottish Collections Network: landscaping the Scottish common information environment. 2006. (PDF document)
• Making sense of the hybrid super union catalogue in the information environment - some outcomes of the COPAC/Clumps continuing interoperability project. 2005 (MS PowerPoint Show)
• Elements and future development requirements of a common information environment for Scotland: Final report to the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) on the SPEIR project. 2004 (PDF document)
• Making sense of hybrid union catalogues: collection landscaping in complex information environments. 2004. (MS PowerPoint Show)
• Collection landscaping in the common information environment: a case study using the Scottish Collections Network (SCONE). 2004. (PDF document)
• CAIRNS and SCONE: shaping the Scottish information environment : presented at the CoFHE Conference, 14-17 April 2003, Heriot-Watt University. 2003. (MS PowerPoint Show)
• Scottish distributed information infrastructure research: Scottish cultural portal pilot and public libraries integration initiatives. (PDF document)