Background

This event brought together 7 of Xgrain's 10 representatives Learning and Teaching Associates with staff from EDINA and other interested parties. The aims were to set the ground work for initial functionality specifications for Xgrain as a portal and as a broker, and to undertake preliminary work on the L&T aspects of Xgrain.

Moira Massey introduced the day with an overview of Xgrain. The project was then put into context by Margarete Tubby, who gave an introduction to the Join-Up cluster, within which Xgrain operates, and by Judith Clark, who gave an update on the RDN and the projects designed to enhance it.

Following these presentations, workshop participants discussed the requirements for Xgrain in terms of its role as a bibliographic portal, a broker and its potential as a learning and teaching tool.

Participants

Xgrain Learning and Teaching Associates:

Katie Beverley, Development Officer, LTSN Physical Sciences, Hull
Alan Brine, Manager, LTSN Information and Computer Sciences, Loughborough
Greig Fratus, MathGate Manager, Birmingham
Sue Gollifer, LTSN Art, Design and Communication, Brighton
Sylvia Harris, Architecture Librarian, Cardiff
Roddy MacLeod, EEVL Manager, Heriot Watt
Sue Mehrer, Assistant Librarian, LSE

Other participants:

Judith Clark, RDN Portals Development Project Manager, KCL
Catherine Edwards, Evaluation, Northumbria at Newcastle
Jill Evans, Inter Library Loans Librarian, Edinburgh

EDINA staff:

Helen Chisholm (morning), EDINA User Support Manager
Moira Massey, Xgrain L&T Co-ordinator
Sandy Shaw, Xgrain Project Manager
Ben Soares, Xgrain Software Engineer
Tim Stickland, Xgrain Software Engineer
Ian Stuart, Xgrain Software Engineer
Margarete Tubby, Xgrain Business Development Co-ordinator