Ken Miller
A Different Kind of Era - The European Research Area

millk@essex.ac.uk

This paper will describe the plans to extend the current CESSDA Intergrated Data Catalogue (IDC) beyond a virtual catalogue to a multi-lingual virtual portal to the data interstructures of the European research area. Working on the vision and deliverables from two previous EU funded projects, LIMBER and FASTER, it is hoped to give access, in 10 European languages, to the holdings of the majority of CESSDA archives within the next 3 years. Further initiatives will then hopefully make available through this portal the holdings of other important European data providers, along with associated knowledge products, such electronic books, journals, articles and working papers.

Ken Miller
Head of Information Development
UK Data Archive
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
Essex
England CO4 3SQ
tel: +44 (0)1206 872146