Ann Apps

Position: MIMAS - Research and Development (Electronic Publishing)
Address: MIMAS, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL
Phone: 0161 275 6039
Email: ann.apps@man.ac.uk
URL: http://www.mimas.ac.uk/staffpages/ann_apps.html

Project: ZETOC
Position: ZETOC technical development

ZETOC Phase 1 (the live version). http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk Data analysis and conversion. Set up of automatic data loading into BRS database.

ZETOC Phase 2. Development of XML-based prototype version of ZETOC using Cheshire (http://cheshire.lib.berkeley.edu) software.

Experience with Linking Technologies:

• CABRef Project (2000), with CABI Publishing, to enable PubMed-like linking from a citation in a journal article to a CAB Abstract.
• CABI Linking Project (1999), an earlier project with CABI Publishing, investigated linking from citations to full text journal articles as well as CAB Abstracts, and added links to Medline abstracts from citations in CABI's full text journal articles.
• SuperJournal Project (1996-1998). Implemented linking from citations to articles within SuperJournal and to Medline abstracts.
• DC-Citation. I was a member of the Dublin Core Citation working group which investigated specifying journal article bibliographic record information using Dublin Core metadata.
• Member of the NISO Standards Committee tasked to develop an American National Standard for OpenURL, syntax for creating web-transportable packages of metadata and/or identifiers about an information object.