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Gigateway Newsletter - October 2005

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Visit gigateway on stand 45 at AGI2005!

AGI2005, the UK's leading GI event, will this year be held at Chelsea Village in London from Tuesday 8th to Thursday 10th November 2005. The Gigateway Services Team will be there (on stand 45) to showcase the new functionalities of MetaGenie v2.0, the free metadata creation tool, which is now UK GEMINI compliant and expected for release by the New Year.

There will be over 55 world-leading speakers and 50 exhibitors at this year's event making it the largest GI focused conference and exhibition in the UK. To register for the event go to the AGI2005 website.

Gigateway and IGGI Annual Seminar

This year's IGGI Annual Seminar, held at the Royal Statistical Society on 21 September, was called 'Building a Community and Sharing Information'. The focus of the event was to help build a community for GI in Central Government and develop ways of sharing good practice and improving access to information. There were a number of presentations and Lee West gave one on the challenges, benefits and future improvements relating to the gigateway service. Click here to view the presentation.

New gigateway guidelines for creating metadata

The Gigateway Services Team have produced some guidelines to help users create
quality metadata records. The document aims to complement MetaGenie by describing the valid entries for each field and also contains plenty of examples. There is a large section dedicated to writing clear and concise abstracts as this is often the first place that users go to when they are trying to decide on which datasets to use. These guidelines have been approved by the Gigateway Advisory Group and are available to download here. If you would like to make any comments about these guidelines please post them under the 'Guidelines for creating quality metadata' section on the metadata forum.

Gigateway survey results

We recently ran two surveys to find out what our users thought about the service and the results are now available to read. Thank you to all of those who took part, your feedback is valued and will help us to improve the service.

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